Political Junky
Gold Member
- May 27, 2009
- 25,793
- 3,990
Nope.The biggest slap Congress has delivered to the USPS, though, is a 2006 decision to make the agency pre-fund its pensions for 75 years, an onerous burden not required of any other government agency, let alone adopted by any private company. Most of the USPS's losses are caused by this requirement. The other factor is the steady decline in First Class mail, as more people use the internet for routine correspondence.
The Postal Service keeps on coming up with plans to make itself profitable, or a least less unprofitable, and Congress keeps saying no or ignoring the USPS's structural issues
Close the USPS, let UPS and fedex do it. They seem to know how to deliver things all over the world and still make a profit.
Will they deliver a letter from my house to my cousins house in California for 49 cents?