You Should Be OUTRAGED by What Is Being Done to Our POSTAL SERVICE

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73. You're echoing the MSM.

That's part of the story (the smaller part, actually) and the only part they are interested in telling. In fact, the Postal Service has been able to reduce its workforce enough through attrition to compensate for reduced mail volume. What they haven't been able to do is meet the health care pre-funding mandate imposed by the Republican lame duck congress in 2006. That law, The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) requires the Postal Service to pre-fund future healthcare benefits for 75 years- within a 10 year period. The Postal Service is mandated to fund in advance health care for employees who have not yet been hired or, in many cases, even born yet. No other entity, public or private, operates under this burden.

Yes, the Postal Service should be expanding into providing other services, and no- congress will not allow them to do so. The real, very depressing story of USPS is simply sabotage.