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80% of this hemorrhaging is due to the prefunding pensions requirement that Congress put upon the USPS.

And it’s a service! It’s not supposed to make money. The government is not an investment firm for taxpayers. You might as well ask when we’re going to scale back the military. We hardly use it and it’s running at a loss!



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