NAPS Testimony Before Congress on Protecting USPS Employees and Combating Mail Theft

Yesterday, NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore offered testimony to the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Government Operations relating to mail theft and postal-related crime.

The July 23 hearing focused on congressional concerns about escalating assaults on postal employees and the high incidence of mail theft. Members of the committee explored strategies that would be effective in combating postal crime, including putting postal police officers back on the streets in high-crime areas.

In its testimony, NAPS urged the panel to approve H.R. 2095, the Postal Police Reform Act, legislation to reverse the Postal Service’s 2020 policy decision to restrict the authority of the agency’s uniformed law enforcement personnel. In addition, the testimony expressed alarm about the findings of a recent Postal Office of Inspector General audit that found a privatized mail processing facility fostered mail theft. NAPS cautioned Congress that efforts to transfer mail processing and logistics operations to the private sector likely would worsen mail theft, particularly for mail-order pharmaceuticals. Vice President Mulidore pledged to Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) and Ranking Member Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) that NAPS will continue to work with them as they advance efforts to protect postal employees, postal assets and the mail.