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It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.

The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.

The Postal Service is a vitally important institution for the American people. It must be saved.

It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.

In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.

At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.

Firefighters don't go on strike.