SR0248 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, The United States Postal Service is considering reducing delivery service from six days a week to five days a week; and

WHEREAS, American citizens, businesses, and organizations have depended on six-day mail service for the timely delivery of important documents since 1912, especially working families who rely on the U.S. Postal Service for delivery of paychecks; and

WHEREAS, The reduction in service will inevitably create a backlog of undelivered mail, as postal workers would have to handle the same amount of mail in a shorter period of time; and

WHEREAS, This backlog would create delays in mail delivery and increase the costs of mail service as postal workers would have to work overtime hours to ensure timely delivery of the mail; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the United States Postal Service to maintain a six-day a week mail service; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to the United States Postmaster General.