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Depending on the type of mail the USPS has to publish rates 90 days in advance, and there are regulatory limits to increases.

• m0zg 6y ago
  Perhaps ease the limits then? What's the endgame here? Let it die? Keep spending tens of billions on it each year in perpetuity while it delivers packages for Amazon and Chinese overseas sellers for next to nothing? Neither is a good outcome for anyone, left or right.
  • learc83 6y ago
    >Keep spending tens of billions on it each year in perpetuity while it delivers packages for Amazon for next to nothing? According to the Post Office they aren't delivering packages for next to nothing. They are delivering them for competitive rates and if they increased them they would lose business, revenue, and profit. Now this could be temporarily different due to COVID-19, but if that's the case then emergency funding would be appropriate.
    • m0zg 6y ago
      There's no such thing as "competitive rates" to a lot of the rural USA because nobody else is required to go there, so nobody does. Instead, they let the taxpayer fund those package deliveries while Bezos is swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck. You don't have to carry water for him just because he owns WaPo. And to add insult to an injury, the mandatory service such as first class mail is priced below competitive and cemented that way by law. It's as though certain people in US Congress want the USPS to be insolvent, and ultimately nationalized / tax funded.