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>The Post Office was mandated by the founding fathers under the principle that everyone has the right to secure, efficient, reliable, and affordable mail servic
by marcoperaza 9y ago
>The Post Office was mandated by the founding fathers under the principle that everyone has the right to secure, efficient, reliable, and affordable mail service.
The founders would not have talked about postal service as a "right". A good idea? Yes. Stupid to not have one? Yes. A right? No.
>The most recent being the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 which required the USPS to switch from a Pay-As-You-Go to a Pre-Funded model for it's retirement plans.
Congress saw the writing on the wall—that the Postal Service was probably going to suffer permanently declining revenue in the long run. They took steps to make sure that the financial burden of paying for unfunded pension liabilities did not fall on the taxpayers.
- Bartweiss 9y ago> They took steps Sure, but not the steps you'd take if you wanted a functioning public postal system. They set an extremely short timeframe to fund the pension account, then cut postage prices right as it neared full funding. A lot of Congress very openly wants to end the public postal system. Pre-funding the pension system was a reasonable move in principle, but like most changes to the USPS it's structured in a way designed to create a failing system to privatize.