Bill Text: HI SR11 | 2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting The United States Congress, Postal Regulatory Commission, And United States Postal Service To Take Any Actions Necessary For The United States Postal Service To Lease To Private Businesses Advertising Space On Postal Property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-01-30 - Referred to PSM. [SR11 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2023-SR11-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	11
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the United States Congress, Postal Regulatory Commission, and United States Postal Service to take any actions necessary for the United States Postal Service to lease to private businesses advertising space on postal property.

 

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Postal Service reaches every address in the United States and delivers forty-eight percent of the world's mail; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Postal Service has operated at a loss since 2007, with the service incurring a net loss of $473,000,000 in fiscal year 2022; and

 

     WHEREAS, the United States Postal Service's revenues are derived from the sale of postage stamps, products, and services; and

 

     WHEREAS, there is an essential need for additional revenue for infrastructural improvements at postal offices nationwide; and

 

     WHEREAS, revenue from leasing advertising space on postal property will facilitate implementation of these essential infrastructural improvements; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2023, that the United States Congress, Postal Regulatory Commission, and United States Postal Service are requested to take any actions necessary for the United States Postal Service to lease to private businesses advertising space on postal property; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Postmaster General of the United States Post Office, Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission, and members of Hawaii's congressional delegation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

United States Postal Service; Congress; Postal Regulatory Commission; Advertising; Revenues