MediaBuyerPlanner: An agreement was not reached on a bill that would resolve the differences between the Senate (S. 662) and House (H.R. 22) postal reform bills before the end of the Congressional session, though legislators and mailers worked past midnight on Saturday night.
The cause of the delay, this time, was the National Association of Letters Carriers, according to Jerry Cerasale, senior vp for government affairs for the Direct Marketing Association, writes Multichannel Merchant. The Letter Carriers Association was at odds over language that dealt with workers compensation.
Until the lame duck session of Congress convenes, Cerasale says he will spend his time with legislators to build consensus on specific language, so that when Congress reconvenes on Nov. 13, “we’ll be ready to go,” he is quoted as saying.
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