The USPS is the largest unionized operation in the USA. Republicans are trying to drive it into crisis and kill it. So they passed a law which requires it to se

The USPS is the largest unionized operation in the USA. Republicans are trying to drive it into crisis and kill it. So they passed a law which requires it to set aside vast amounts of money to prefund retirement obligations on a scale which no other organization in the USA has to do. At the same time, they are refusing to let it raise postage rates or otherwise generate more revenue. And in the news recently (past few weeks), Trump has appointed a new head of the agency who is ordering it to slow down mail delivery. Goal is to get the public to perceive it as a money-losing, inefficient operation which should be destroyed and outsourced to private companies (who will immediately hugely raise postage rates, reduce letter carrier pay, reduce delivery speed, and so on).