https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5750419/usps-running-out-of-money-postal-service-david-steiner
It's now $11 to send a single priority flat 3/4 of the way across the USA, and it doesn't even get there in 2-3, it's now 4-5 days.
The only reason I used this service is I have to send documents once a year and they are required to be paper with wet signatures. Otherwise, I wouldn't use the post office at all.
(Other than the bastards that want tax forms...you get paper because fuck you, you get paper and fuck you.)
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 stopped all public service payments with the final payments being made in 1982. The office has largely been on it's own since then but remains under the control of congress and isn't allowed to set it's own rates or routes. Prefunding pensions was terminated some years ago and was never really a thing - payments weren't made.
Congress does not have the power to mandate a postal service, only the power of establishing is granted via Article 1, §8, Clause 7 of the Constitution of the United States of America, which only states: "To establish Post Offices and post Roads"
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5750419/usps-running-out-of-money-postal-service-david-steiner
It's now $11 to send a single priority flat 3/4 of the way across the USA, and it doesn't even get there in 2-3, it's now 4-5 days.
The only reason I used this service is I have to send documents once a year and they are required to be paper with wet signatures. Otherwise, I wouldn't use the post office at all.
(Other than the bastards that want tax forms...you get paper because fuck you, you get paper and fuck you.)
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 stopped all public service payments with the final payments being made in 1982. The office has largely been on it's own since then but remains under the control of congress and isn't allowed to set it's own rates or routes. Prefunding pensions was terminated some years ago and was never really a thing - payments weren't made.
Congress does not have the power to mandate a postal service, only the power of establishing is granted via Article 1, §8, Clause 7 of the Constitution of the United States of America, which only states: "To establish Post Offices and post Roads"
