Should Trump veto funding for the USPS

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The USPS is running out of money mostly because Congress made them set up fully paid retirement fund for 75 years of employees.

I remember when that happened. I also read at the time that both UPS and FedEx were making a lot of noise with the feds on how either one of them could handle the workload and save the government money at the same time. I would think that the feds would have to find all of those folks at the USPS other government jobs. Wouldn’t that be fun. I remember when the USPS made money every year. I think that they really got the short end of the deal a few years back.

UPS/FEDEX ground shipping is around 10$ for a letter.
USPS ground shipping is around .50$

The USPS could easily make money if Congress didn’t make it impossible for them to do so.

The job of the USPS is to deliver mail, not make money.

The idea that an essential government service must turn a profit is really weird.

It would be great if it made a profit or even broke even, but that’s not its job.