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Rand Paul: “Post office's problems is because of Congress and the…”

Featuring: Rand Paul, Republican | U.S. Senate from Kentucky

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But I do support the concept of this. Incentives work. Nobody in the private world gets paid for not doing a good job. However, the only thing I would add is much of the Post office's problems is because of Congress and the constraints. There are at least a half a dozen mandates that we put on them that they make it virtually impossible not to deliver the mail on time, but make it virtually impossible to run in the black. (03:04–03:08)

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Asserts that Congress and its constraints are responsible for the Postal Service's problems.

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