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handle is hein.amenin/aeieacq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points Congress created Ke US Posta Seric e ISPS) in 197C as an independent govemrnent agency to free it from deleterious polit cal influence from residents and Ic'is .aors, nornress aiso gave he- U-SS significant 'perational freeom so the geny c: ou;d respond to rarkt fcrc s a nd mar<e decisions hAt enable it to cover its operating costs. Duning 02, variou;s state and IocIal officials filed c mpaints in federal courts faulting the iPS r main orar na ci hang they il nrnne wbuid impen statee.xpanoed voting by mail. Fed r udges accepted tKes puliti-iz d ' ornIaints .nd issued orders to the USPS, curb inr its pertiornal freec om Congress shoukd amend posltl .aw ro better liinreale USPS's operational independ- ence and stren~gthen the hand of reguiatorv authorities to intervene in the even;t of USPS performance shortfalls. In 2020, the US Postal Ser vce (USPS) found itself being hacied into court, where federal judges ordered the agency to not reduce overtime hours, alter its trucks' departure schedules, or make other operational ihaiges that might affect mail delivery spee. This was unprecedented and peculiar. The U S PS is an independent agency of die exer- utive oranch. Congress gave it operational freedom to achieve its various public polie' objectves, includ- ing being self-funding. The comphcatd nature of running a nat-onal postal netwo r necessitated keeping presidents and legislators, who tend to be motivated by politics and have little knowledge of logistics, out of she agency's day-to-day operations. It was therefore surprising and ironic that wide- spread amerty over voting by mail and the 2020 resilentIl election led to neimbers of the trd branch of government deeply involving themselves in postal operations at the behest of elected fri- cials, partisans, and political activists. his report reviews his pecculiar situation, whercin he judaciar, with limited facts and under- standing, substituted its judgment for USS's lead- ership The report concludes by suggesting statu- tory improvcements that can help empower the USPS to make its own deciso s within clear boundaries set by Congress.

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