Swear to GOD - the issues surrounding the financial well being of our USPS are FAR more complex and nuanced.
It would be GREAT if the MSM reported the FACTs
The USPS is NOT like any other Agency
They are REQUIRED to pay the Govt BILLIONS A YEAR

In 2011, 2012, 2013 there was a pretty big financial shitstorm facing USPS, it largely surrounded around liquidity & “cost sharing” of employees retirement & benefits & loans
For example
https://www.gao.gov/assets/670/661637.pdf

2013 effectuation of rate changes made USPS quasi-nimble and liquidity less of a dire situation
I’m telling you DC is playing games both the White House & Congress
...yes increased rates & services means more revenue but the obligations remain
https://www.gao.gov/assets/670/666162.pdf

One tried & true factor is Overhead reduction lowers cost, and in 2014 that’s what the USPS did.
They furloughed a fuckton of people to get the overhead down & make their “books” look better
USPS STILL has to pay the US Treasury BILLIONs (put a pin in it)
https://www.gao.gov/assets/670/666884.pdf

Again I’m going to give it to you straight the USPS is not like ANY other Fed Agency
They are required to pay the Government BILLIONs
Lawmakers, both parties & the presidents ALL use the USPS as their piñata & as a bargain chip.
It’s FOUL but predictable
https://www.gao.gov/assets/680/676884.pdf

This is not my opinions, these are the stone cold brutal FACTs;
the USPS by LAW is required to pay BILLIONS to the Govt
“USPS’s required payments in fiscal year 2016 include a statutory required payment of $5.8 billion to prefund retiree health benefits.”
https://www.gao.gov/assets/680/677044.pdf

In March 2020 the GAO reported,

FY 2018 USPS generated $10.5B in revenue v $5B to operate, making them profitable overall.
But BECAUSE of the LAW USPS has to pay the Government- if you sense my frustration that’s intended

https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705230.pdf

This is WHY I am pretty pissed off because both Congress & Trump are playing GAMES
Congress has known about this UNFAIR LAW FOR YEARS
The issue is who the president is & what he’s prone to do.
He’s PISSED that USPS & Amazon inked a deal that made the USPS flush with liquidity

Let me brake this down - every OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY picks up the cost for employee benefits
Yet the USPS by LAW must fund theirs & pay the Government
It’s known colloquially as “an uneven playing field” those are the FACTs not an opinion
https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/694187.pdf

Lastly Trump didn’t create the USPS collision course for financial insolvency DC created it, Congress & past Administrations
The problem is Trump is a sociopath & he’s transactional
He’s also guided by revenge.
He’s PISSED the stimulus had a $10B loan & loan forgiveness...

To the House Democrats credit they wanted $25B to help the USPS stay “afloat” but that fucking dick-wad “mitch” put in poison pills. So the Dems agreed to $10B but the notion that the USPS would cease to be or “that this is Trump’s master plan to fuck up the 2020 election”
STOP

Unless you can disprove the body of facts I’ve laid out & linked.
That Trump is an evil genius and he had the forethought to make OUR USPS go under before the Nov 2020 election, show me a memo, letter anything to prove that shit.
I am TIRED of conspiracies - stick to the FACTs

Don’t take my word for it - because I’m just an ordinary file-folder
<snorts> https://twitter.com/profmarylewis/status/1249184723672449024?s=20

Dear @USPS

You GUYS are awesome - thank you for everything you do to serve us. I very much appreciate what y’all do.

BESTNEWSEVER https://twitter.com/srl/status/1253067025263595520?s=20

GOOD - for @OversightDems for putting @USPS 1st
“U.S. airline industry had 452,668 full time employees in 2019...equivalent of more than $110,000 per employee. That would amount to more than $69 billion if applied to the Postal Service’s 630,000 employees”
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2020-04-30.CBM%20GEC%20King%20Amodei%20to%20Leadership%20re%20Postal%20Service.pdf

What. Fresh. Forking. Hell. Is. This.
PMG appointed 9 Governors that are appointed by the President w/ the advice & consent of the Senate
Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundraiser-and-trump-ally-to-be-named-postmaster-general-giving-president-new-influence-over-postal-service-officials-say/2020/05/06/25cde93c-8fd4-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html

Let’s be clear here U.S. Postmaster General DeJoy Pulled this same shit in:
March
April
May
but now it’s more pressing because @USPS is under a sustained attck both by Trump & the GOP both inside & outside of the Agency. Good job @senatemajldr
https://www.manchin.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/200728%20USPS%20Louis%20DeJoy%20-%20WV%20Closures%20FINAL.pdf?cb

the @OIGUSPS should have at least 2 dozen ongoing investigations occurring because the @senatemajldr @GOPLeader @realDonaldTrump and at least 11 super shady lobbyist are doing some foul swamp work here
The USPS union of carriers needs to do a media blitz
https://kim.house.gov/sites/kim.house.gov/files/documents/USPS%20Delays%20Letter%2021%20July%2020.pdf

Because this @USPS July 10, 2020 Internal Memo is unbelievable
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2020/images/07/31/usps0731.pdf
And you really should read last Friday’s CNN article
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/usps-mail-in-voting-2020-election/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNNp&utm_content=2020-08-02T08%3A13%3A03&utm_term=image

And lastly (for now) I do not encourage “leaking” but I absolutely encourage following the law & invoking whistleblower protections.
So @USPS employees should follow your agency’s CFRs & the Law. If you don‘t trust your USPS supervisor- see next tweet
https://about.usps.com/who/legal/no-fear-act/learn.htm

If you don’t trust the @OIGUSPS or @USPS chain of command, you have a few LEGAL options
1) Congress House OverSight
https://oversight.house.gov/investigations/whistleblower
2) OSC https://osc.gov 
3) Hire counsel that specializes in whistleblowing
but leaking isn’t the lawful route https://twitter.com/File411/status/1247299907108700161?s=20

FWIW -unlike the DOJ, SEC & IRS the @USPS inspectors assist in serious take down of criminals. The inequity is their Agency isn’t permitted to ”forfeiture” benefits like other Fed LE agencies. Even if the USPS is instrumental in taking down a crime syndicate they don‘t reap../1

the benefits of “asset forfeiture“ whereas; DOJ, IRS & SEC by law are allowed to claim those “assets“ this has been a decades long problem and one that could be easily solved by Congress. This is another “uneven playing field” unique to @USPS & it impacts their financial /2

standing & liquidity. I can’t tell you how many hours the postal unions & public policy groups have spent researching this. For Example:
International Drug Cartel uses USPS to move thousands of lbs of cocaine, launder money, mail illicit drugs (or diamonds) and yet USPS doesn’t/3

qualify for any largesse that they helped seize. Congress could/should fix this so USPS law enforcement can have the same privileges as the DOJ and/or SEC. <—who use asset forfeiture to “supplement“ their budgets. And yes I’m overly simplifying this but again most don’t know/4

how the @USPS tends to be “hamstrung” even though their postal inspectors are front line law enforcement. IMO this is an easily fixable & completely reasonable fix. If the USPS criminal investigations make us safer then why can’t they benefit from “asset forfeiture”
/fin, for now