Post Office Games

The Post Office may present the most difficult problem for Trump/Vance/Musk.

But weasel-wording about the Post Office's tax-taking is not helpful.

 “We also don’t take tax dollars,” [Letter Carriers' MKE President] Kosier said. “We are funded through ourselves and our sale of stamps and sale of any other service that we do.”

Really?

The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to provide the long loss-making Postal Service (USPS) with about $50 billion in financial relief over a decade and require its future retirees to enroll in a government health insurance plan.

In a rare display of bipartisanship for a narrowly divided Congress, the 79-19 vote follows approval by the U.S. House of Representatives in early February and sends the bill to President Joe Biden for his signature....

We know that Post Office personnel work hard and are under a lot of pressure to work fast, too.  That is not the question.  The question is whether management has maximized logistical efficiency AND matched revenue-to-cost, especially for "junk" mail.

 

Like all Government entities, the Post Office has had politicians screwing with the system, and it shows.