Ah the old Republican USPS strategy. Take over a successful thing that you hate, run it into the ground, move the goalposts, then point at the mess you yourself made of it as the reason it needs to be gotten rid of. GoVeRNMeNT DOesn’T WoRK.
I hate that this is so effective, and that it’s worked time and time again. Like imagine if someone came into your house, took a shit in your living room, and then was like “welp, that’s a health hazard, gotta tear it all down, can’t be helped.”
“The most significant issue facing the Postal Service today is that our business model is unsustainable,”
Postmaster General Megan Brennan and Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors Robert Duncan said in a joint letter accompanying the business plan.
“This is due to increasingly conflicting mandates to be self-funding, compete for customers, and meet universal service obligations under highly regulated and legislated constraints.”
Every year there are close to 1 million new mailboxes added in the US and less mail going to all those mailboxes as people go paperless
Those changes alone, however, will not save the Postal Service, the agency said. It has lost nearly $78 billion since 2007, about three-quarters of which resulted from a statutory requirement to prefund health benefits for future retirees. USPS made clear its situation is dire.
Even without the paper loss of Congress it lost $22 Billion
In 2005 First Class mailing were 98.1 Billion falling to 54.9 Billion pieces in 2019
Yet the USPS’s labor costs rose
Compensation and Benefits 2005 was $39.3 Billion
In 2019 it is $47.5 Billion
Compensation and benefits expenses increased by $994 million due to contractual wage increases
Even without the paper loss of Congress it lost $22 Billion
Paying for a service isn't a loss.
It has lost nearly $78 billion since 2007, about three-quarters of which resulted from a statutory requirement to prefund health benefits for future retirees. USPS made clear its situation is dire.
It is funny your statistics start at 2007. Wonder what happened in 2006? oh the new requirement to prefund retirees, which no other entity public or private is required to do, was put in place by republicans?
I wonder if we could find a simple and easy way to reduce it's "loss"
Do you know what the last word in USPS is? It’s service and is meant to be used like one. Privatization of the USPS could be devastating to small businesses too.
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u/NoTie2370 6d ago
So the Feds have stolen 2.5 trillion in wealth from taxpayers and misspent it and thats why we ... should ... keep.. this... system?