The other commenters did will to address your misconceptions but I want to further elaborate on this one. > Even if the fund has been paid off it’s not a moot

The other commenters did will to address your misconceptions but I want to further elaborate on this one. > Even if the fund has been paid off it’s not a moot point because that’s potentially billions of dollars that they cannot use to fund service and instead is waiting in an account somewhere to be used decades from now The fund is not paid off as the Post Office never actually made the vast majority of its payments. It's also not in an account waiting to be used. It is being used right now to fund current retirees and it's running deficits. The reason it's a moot point is because even if this requirement were removed today it would operate in the same way i.e. pay as you go.