Rep. Ben Cline: GOP has opportunity to privatize part, all of the Postal Service after years of mismanagement

Rep. Ben Cline discusses the years of mismanagment of federal agencies like the United States Postal Service and Amtrak, after the Post Office announced this week, it was raising the price of stamps again for the second time this year. The Virgina Congressman says, "the Postal Service, just like several other federal agencies, is an inefficient bureaucracy that can't innovate and keep up with the times. And rather than just continue to reward them with more and bigger budgets, we need to start demanding results, and put in some triggers, where you incentivize these bureaucrats to actually cut costs or then they either have part of their business outsourced.” The Congressman goes on to say that "the British have just finished privatizing their postal service. So we've got some catching up to do and I think that a Republican, a new Republican majority has just the opportunity to explore those options.” Cline explains that, "nobody wants to cut back on mail service. Everybody values, especially out in rural America, getting Postal Service six days a week. But the competitors are offering seven days a week and so what you have is competitors across the board that are doing it better, often times, and for less for their own operational costs. So we've got to start either looking to them to provide some of this service or adopting some of their practices that would help improve efficiency." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .