[Big Giant Head]

Just another inept government agency raking in more $$ and piling up more debt! At least in previous decades there was some level of sanity in running the USPS.

Quick: Name another legitimate function of Government that is cutting back, cutting jobs while increasing efficiency.

[muawiyah]

Quick, while we got everybody on line, name another government agency that's ever made more money than it's spent?

Does that ever happen with Department of Defense, or the Treasury, or State Department, or......

USPS operates under a law that requires that it set prices sufficient to pay its costs. The others get vast subsidies at taxpayer expense.

[raccoonradio]

>>cutting jobs while increasing efficiency.

I work for the postal service. For years positions were eliminated through attrition. With the latest crisis
(high gas prices, pensions to pay, less volume) we have been
offering early retirement, stopping new construction, consolidating jobs, continuing to eliminate positions by attrition...and our postage increases are tied in to inflation. If we were allowed to, we could boost it to 50 cents and pay off all of that debt. But we can’t.

At at 50 cents it would still be a pretty good deal.