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11 August 2026

Lawmakers want Postal Service bonuses tied to delivery performance

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Source reporting: FreightWaves

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Lawmakers want Postal Service bonuses tied to delivery performance

A bipartisan bill barring U. S. Postal Service executives from receiving bonuses until on-time mail delivery levels reach 95% was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last week and could be considered by the full chamber when it returns to work next month. Before the vote, Postmaster General David Steiner urged senators to reject the bill, saying in a private letter to the committee that freezing bonuses would be counterproductive. The entire Alabama delegation in the House in late July introduced legislation that ties the postmaster general’s compensation to the Postal Service’s mail delivery and financial performance.

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