For the fiscal year ending in Sept 2006, the USPS ran a profit of $900 million.

Then, in Dec 2006, Republicans mandated that the USPS pre-fund all of its retirements for the next 75 years, at a cost of $5 billion a year.

When was it you said the USPS started losing money? https://twitter.com/JohnArnoldFndtn/status/1249339395590815744">https://twitter.com/JohnArnol...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congress-not-amazon-messed-up-the-u-s-postal-service">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...
Congress, Not Amazon, Messed Up the Post Office

Legislators passed a law that made the USPS less competitive with the private sector.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-04/congress-not-amazon-messed-up-the-u-s-postal-service
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