Photo: West Kingston, Rhode Island Post Office 02892, by Jimmy Emerson, some rights reserved. Photo shared under the Creative Commons License.
Daily Report
Postal workers may have dodged one bullet this week as Rep. Jason Chaffetz stepped down as chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Chaffetz sponsored a postal reform bill that would have taken postal employees out of the main federal employees health benefits program and placed them in their own separate pool, a notion that even the heads of the main postal unions was supporting (unbelievably). The onerous bill may have died with Chaffetz’s retirement. Now there’s word from Federal News Radio that nine Republicans say they oppose proposals in the president’s fiscal 2018 budget request that would make significant changes to the federal retirement system for current and future employees and retirees.