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this is aljazeera america live from new york city. i m erica pitzi. police in ferguson, missouri will be out on the streets early this morning, trying to maintain calm after a second tense night there. officers arrested nearly two dozen people during protests marking one year since the death of michael brown. at least one officer was seen using pepper spray on the crowd. earlier monday, protestors shut down interstate 70 during the afternoon rush hour. st. louis county is now under a state of emergency. andy is live on the ground there in ferguson. good morning to you, andy. we know police made dozens of arrests overnight. what can you tell us? calm now, erika, but it did get hot last night. much as it did the night before, but not quite as bad as the nice before. it started with these protests, we had a line of police and riot gear on one side of a majoring street and protestors on the other side yelling back at them. at one point, police moved in around midnight ....
mail, they face an unprecedented financial crisis. since 2006, mail volume has declined more than 25% or about 60 billion of pieces of mail annually. they ve lost money for nine straight years. they face mounting long-term financial challenges. they have $54 billion for retiry health care and has exhausted its statutory debt limit and it lacks the funds it needs for critical infructure investmeinv. and a delivery fleet think about all the millions and millions of postal boxes that need somebody to come deliver the mail to them. it is a miraculous thing that for less than 50 cents, you can put a stamp on an envelope and a day or two or three days later, it s going to show up at another address in the country. it really is truly amazing. but if you re going to purchase new delivery vehicles, you re going to need money and it s something that the postal service does not have. in the mean time, they must manage a delivery fleet of vehicles on average is 20 years old and c ....
important to know the approach we re taking here. are there costs to be cut? yes. are the things we can do to become more effective? more efficient? yes. but i also believe the postal service is a vital tool of commerce and a thriving vibrant, productive postal service is essential to our economy. we cannot ignore this. think about the world of the internet, think about the way commerce is moving, the way we communicate, how we send bills and kmoocommunicate as a nation. you have to have a vibrant, thriving postal service to achieve that. that s why i think so many people are here today and rithser one of the most important things our committee will be addressing and taking care of and that s the goal and what we re trying to achieve and i thank you all for being here. we should have a good hearing today. with that, ranking member, mr. comeings of maryland. i want to thank you for your hard wi hard work and staff on both sides working so hard for a long time to try to ....
thank you. i think it s time for the postal service to act as a private business has to act in similar situations of constantly losing money without relying upon the taxpayer. at some point we ve got to change. mr. chairman, i thank you for your indulgence. thank the gentleman. will recognize the gentleman from california for five minutes. postmaster brennan, last october the u.s. postal inspection service issued a release about mail theft. and it said that these crimes are increasing and that mail theft from collection boxes and customers mailboxes is a big problem. it also says most cases of mail theft from centralized mailbox units involve counterfeit master keys. so, two questions for you. one is when you talk about right sizing, are you reducing u.s. postal inspection service numbers at all? and does that have an effect on mail theft? and as you move to more and more cluster boxes, doesn t that increase theft because all you need is one master key and you ha ....
leadership around the world. postmaster general make and brennan discussed the future of the u.s. postal service at a house oversight and government reform committee on wednesday. she outlined what policy changes could be made. this is 2.5 hours. the committee on oversight and government reform comes to order. thank you for being here. this is important and it affects every american. it is a vital part of the commerce in united states in the united states. we are here to talk about the postal service and to ensure options for long-term viability. 40% of the mill volume is carried through the united states postal service. workers are spread throughout the country and it is the backbone of a $1 trillion mailing industry that employs 7.5 billion people. 7.5 million people. there is an unprecedented financial crisis. mail volume has declined by 25%. as a result, the postal service has lost money for nine straight years, with nearly a decade of long-term financial ch ....