At the same time by aggregating payments over time the USPS meets the legal requirement that it operate without making a profit.
To distinguish between profit and loss is silly only to government bureaucrats who have never had to earn a living in the real economy of the private sector.
At the same time by aggregating payments over time the USPS meets the legal requirement that it operate without making a profit.
No surprise there. However, we were not discussing law; we were discussing economics and politics. Political monopolies like US Snail can always operate without making a profit because they are taxpayer subsidized.