The pre-funding of postal service workers health benefits goes to the Treasury. [View all]

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And they use the funds to help alleviate the deficit.

Wow.

No wonder the workers are pissed.

" The other cost comes from elimination of regular billion-dollar payments, now required by law, to Treasury to pre-fund health care benefits for retirees. That $23 billion would ease financial pain for the Postal Service, but it also means less revenue to ease federal deficits."

http://money.cnn.com//2012/04/25/news/economy/postal-service-senate/index.htm?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+(Top+Stories)