In 2010 I pointed at Should Businesses Be Run Like The Post Office? and a little over a year ago at Death of U.S. Postal Service: Many Jobs, Locations at Risk. And now Balloon Juice is Going Postal On The Mofo "Let’s recall why the USPS is struggling: because Republicans in Congress forced the agency to pay their retiree health care costs decades down the road up front in 2006, then refused to give them the money to do that. As a result, the USPS made massive workforce cuts and forced thousands into early retirement, which of course means the USPS has to pay those health care benefits up front, putting them into a death spiral."
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