Recently, the U.S. Postmaster General wanted to make operational changes to the postal service, but then retracted those changes until after the November general election. 

Part of those changes included eliminating overtime pay for postal carriers, reducing post office hours and removing postal boxes. U.S. Senator Charles Grassley clarifies some of what he feels are misconceptions about the postal service.

“The hype that somehow they’re going to run out of money, they ain’t going to run out of money until August of next year. And in the meantime, we’ll probably going to appropriate some money to extend it beyond August of next year. We’ve got to, you’ve got it have the postal service.” 

Grassley remarks on the threat of removing equipment such as the postal boxes.

“This bit about removing equipment is a political farce because the guy (DeJoy) suspended that through the election. He’s a non-political person. He’s not appointed by the president, he’s appointed by the Board of Governors. He’s been in office (for) two months, he couldn’t think all this stuff up. It was thought up years ago by the inspector general that you have to reform the postal office in order to keep it viable because the work of the postal service is a lot different now than it was 20 years ago.   

Grassley believes any postal service changes should be made by each individual state and not by the federal government.