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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 172

WHEREAS, The United States Postal Service recently announced plans to reduce delivery service from six days a week to five days a week, beginning in August of 2013; and

WHEREAS, American businesses, organizations, and citizens have depended on six-day mail service for the timely delivery of important documents since 1912; and

WHEREAS, Eliminating Saturday delivery would affect most Americans, but particularly rural residents, senior citizens, small businesses, and working families who rely on the postal service for receipt of their paychecks; and

WHEREAS, The reduction in service would inevitably create a backlog of undelivered mail, as postal workers would have fewer days in which to handle the same amount of mail; and

WHEREAS, This backlog would delay mail delivery or increase the cost of postal service, as postal employees work overtime hours to ensure timely delivery of the mail; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we support the decision of the United States Congress, in recognition of the Postal Service's duty to operate in the public interest, to require it to maintain its current delivery schedule; and be it further

RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be delivered to the United States Postmaster General and each member of the Illinois congressional delegation.