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Back to work: so much about which to be wary.


The summer is over. Your new back to school shoes are still shiny and maybe a little stiff. You have a new box of #2 pencils and maybe even a new book bag. You're going to need them all.

The new shoe leather will be useful for a march up to Capitol Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress
Capitol, seat of the U.S. government at Washington, D.C. It is the city's dominating monument, built on an elevated site that was chosen by George Washington in consultation with Major Pierre L'Enfant.
 Hill and state houses to beat back various threats coming this fall. The pencils will be for all of the correspondence you're going to be doing. The book bag is to cart work home with you.

The Congress is getting ready for action, as is the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. . In some cases, they are working together.

When we last checked with Congress, the House of Representatives had just passed HR 22 the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. The Senate version of the bill is S. 662. Both bills deal with the problematic $78 billion escrow escrow

Instrument, such as a deed, money, or property, that constitutes evidence of obligations between two or more parties and is held by a third party. It is delivered by the third party only upon fulfillment of some condition.
 fund and the $27 billion obligation thrust on the USPS (1) (Uninterruptible Switching Power Supply) A power supply for a computer that contains its own battery and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry. See power supply and UPS.  to pay military service retiree costs.

These are two separate bills that must be combined, passed and sent to a president who in no way wants to add $27 billion to his budget deficit.

The reason you should care about this is that if the current situation at the postal service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval  remains unchanged, your fundraising
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Fundraising
 mail costs will shoot up about 6 percent. The official estimate is 5.4 percent, but it is Washington, after all. Who's going to notice an piddley little, extra 0.6 percent?

You need to get very familiar with your representatives to make sure that this is passed with a veto-proof majority.

That brings us to Sen. Charles Grassley and his continued assault on what he clearly believes is a sector of Charlatans. His Senate Finance Committee is drafting new sector oversight
For Oversight in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Oversight.


Oversight may refer to:
  • Government regulation — The role of an official authority in regulating a separate authority.
 regulations which, of course, include new fees.

Dust-ups with state regulators, such as the investigation by the State of California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W).  into the compensation of the chief executive at the Getty, bolsters Grassley's case for additional oversight.

There is nothing wrong with accountability. That comes with the tax-exempt territory. But when these regulations come with new fees or processes that drain vital resources, they must be beaten back.

It's important that your representatives make sure that none of Grassley's attacks end up as amendments to large pieces of legislation. That appears to be Grassley's plan.

Let your representatives know that you--and your donors--will be watching them.
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Title Annotation:General Ramblings; the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.; S. 662
Author:Clolery, Paul
Publication:The Non-profit Times
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2005
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