Senators blast House leaders over Postal Service default

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12. The USPS shouldn't be making this Republikkkan-created dumb-ass poison pill payment anyway.

What plagues USPS is the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (yes, another of Dubya's legacies), which requires the USPS to pre-pay the health care benefits of not only current USPS employees, but all employees who will retire in the next 75 years — including those not yet born!

No other agency or corporation is required to do this, and it is doubtful that any could survive if forced to meet a similar requirement. The law is a poison pill designed to drive the Post Office into bankruptcy.

Despite the growth of email, we still need the Post Office. We need to get rid of that ridiculous law and stop closing post offices and cutting services.