[discostu]

Problem is the USPS doesn’t get to make any business decision unencumbered of the political whims of congress. The primary reason they’re in trouble now is because congress makes them pay for the next 50 years of their pension, if they didn’t have to do that they wouldn’t be losing money and none of the things they’re doing to cut costs would be necessary.

[rgboomers]

“The primary reason they’re in trouble now is because congress makes them pay for the next 50 years of their pension.”

Among the rank and file of the USPS, it is widely assumed that these in excess of any practical need pension payments are somehow being siphoned off to other federal pension plans.

[muawiyah]

Not quite right ~ the organization is taxed by Congress to pay for retirees health care insurance premiums 75 YEARS FROM NOW.

There's not a postal worker or postal retiree alive who will ever see a dime of that money!

BTW, nobody else does that!