The Post Office never will be profitable, and was never designed to be. How can you be profitable with a mandate of daily delivery of mail to EVERY PERSON IN THE NATION? Its just not feasible.
On the same token though, the USPS has been mismanaged and congress certainly hasn’t helped its cause over the years at times either.
There is little doubt that EMAIl and Electronic Bill Pay has eroded the mail load, but I personally don’t think making sure every person in the country can get mail is a bad thing, and it is a function of government that is viable and useful, and if tax dollars are going to pay for services, this is one I don’t mind paying for.
Of all the crapola the government burns money on, I don’t think MAIL is the problem.
If it weren't for Congress, the USPS wouldn't be in this situation at all.
At the very end of that year, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). Under PAEA, USPS was forced to “prefund its future health care benefit payments to retirees for the next 75 years in an astonishing ten-year time span” — meaning that it had to put aside billions of dollars to pay for the health benefits of employees it hasn’t even hired yet, something “that no other government or private corporation is required to do.”