[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6899]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              USPS REFORM

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, last week we learned that the Williams 
Street mail processing facility in my Buffalo community will remain 
open despite proposals by the Postal Service to close it.
  While this is welcome news, I remain deeply disappointed by the 
``decide first and justify later'' approach that the Postal Service has 
used throughout this process. From failing to notify residents of 
proposed closures to poor record-keeping at public meetings, the amount 
of community involvement in this process has been unacceptable, and now 
postal workers are faced with uncertainty as the status of their place 
of employment remains unclear.
  Mr. Speaker, we must take advantage of this temporary moratorium on 
closures in order to take a serious look at the facility closure 
process and to make much-needed reforms.

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