Indicating that go ai y as weour day. Cast shows that asea next couple of days, cowith breeze kicking in for us. Just kind of helping to scour out the smoke and mix out and take out that smoke from our region. So looking great as we head through our afternoon with likely good to moderate air quality. All thanks to that sea breeze helping to mix out that smoke. Temperatures in the upper 60s in San Francisco this afternoon. Mid 70s in oakland and low 80s in san jose and mid 80s for concord after starting off the day with patchy fog and drizzle as well. Talk about the rest of the workweek and some changes for the weekend. Details on that coming up. Thanks mary. Taking a look at the roadways this morning, weve got brake lights and its du as you head out of downtown oakland. Right around 23rd and 29th. Angoing road work and alternating lanes so traffic just squeezing by as you head through there. You can use 580 through oakland its a much better ride both directions there this morning. To a
Skies, calm winds, coalton sunshine will do its thing along with the winds out of the temperatures up to the low 40 s. Right now a chilly start to matter where you are in greater by lunchtime, 35. That is basically where we were for a high yesterday. 40 s this afternoon. This time of year. 8 00, 36. If you have big plans for friday night, expect temperatures to s. The low 50 s for super bowl sunday and then the temperatures crash next week, but nobody wants to look past sunday because it is friday morning. What is going on . Kyla i m all about not looking past sunday. They say where we are and go are good to go. Good morning. You are mostly good to go. We have what could be hud of hours along columbia parkway. Let s take a look at the interstates. 75 out of over county. It looks good at union center. Traffic already starting to pick up a little bit on the southbound side. Eastbound and westbound, still looking clear on 74 at montana. Across the river, 7175, thinning out of it on the so
To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesitate to answer because without having time to analyze the data. Second, there is a trade off obviously. You cant do all things for all people. You have to make some choices here. Service standards should be an input into the question of plant and logistical rationalization it seems to me. I just dont have i dont have my hands on the information necessary i understand. Everything else equal. I think theres something nice about having as you characterize, a one, two, three kind of standard. You wou
The centers changed the standard of delivery and gone from one, two, three, days to modified one so au so if youre in the same met oe metropolitan area. Thats modified one. If were outside the area, you might get it. You may not. Modified one, two, three. I think the Postal Service would like to go to two, three. Two day even in the same metropolitan area. It would be one but two would be the expectation and three. In terms of whats appropriate for us, im not comfortable with the Postal Service saying this is how many Mail Processing centers we should have. Some people say the more appropriate thing for us to do maybe with the involvement of the Regulatory Commission is to consider whether or not modified one, two, three days of service is appropriate. One, two, three is better or two, three is just fine. I would welcome any comments that you all have in it regard. Ms. Kennedy. I picked on mr. Miller all afternoon. Maybe i should come to you. My first thought is if we have declining fi
He did that for a number of years and then he said, i think id like to become a congressman. He became a congressman for oklahoma and did that for a while. Then he said, maybe id like to be a senator. He did that for ten years and hes going to step down about two years early before the end of his term this year. God knows what hell do next. Maybe hes going to land a plane. Well find out before he gets here, but he should be here before too much longer. Ms. Kennedy, same line of thought we have. One of the things dr. Coburn really insisted on, pushed for when we introduced our initial bill a year ago last august, this past august, and he basically said, the Postal Service is not foolish, theyre not stupid, theyre not deaf to the marketplace. Lets give them the flexibility of set rates. If they charge too much, customers will stop using them. If they theyll eventually find a sweet spot. In the end we did not do that. There was a large criticism from the public and so forth. We thought we