Obligatory reminder that saying the USPS has “struggled financially in recent years” is straight up sanewashing misinformation. They used to be one of the only public services to actually be profitable (not that i think that should matter; government shouldn’t have any kind of profit motive) and the only reason they aren’t technically still is because Republicans have been trying to privatize and ratfuck USPS for decades. A few years ago they passed a law requiring the USPS to fully fund retirement pensions for the next like 70 years, thus on paper the service now looks like it’s in the red.
Obligatory reminder that saying the USPS has “struggled financially in recent years” is straight up sanewashing misinformation. They used to be one of the only public services to actually be profitable (not that i think that should matter; government shouldn’t have any kind of profit motive) and the only reason they aren’t technically still is because Republicans have been trying to privatize and ratfuck USPS for decades. A few years ago they passed a law requiring the USPS to fully fund retirement pensions for the next like 70 years, thus on paper the service now looks like it’s in the red.