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New_Housing785 Apr 10, 2026 +417

Amazing how the postal service seems to have money issues just before elections where mail in voting happens.

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velveteentuzhi Apr 10, 2026 +132

All by design. The GOP financially crippled the USPS in 2006, they've just managed to crawl along until now

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Shoot_from_the_Quip Apr 10, 2026 +22

And the USPS funds like 90% of its 80 billion budget through first class mail and parcels. We could fund the USPS shortcoming with just a few days of this war's expenditures.

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aircooledJenkins Apr 10, 2026 -26

That was repealed in 2022. People don't use the post office like they used to.

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Fresh_Individual5500 Apr 10, 2026 +1

That’s the place that gives out free cardboard boxes isn’t it?

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Serial-Griller Apr 10, 2026 +12

Just. Like. Last. Time.

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Magic_Neil Apr 10, 2026 +759

What I’m reading is that everything is going according to the plan of a certain group of people.

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iatekane Apr 10, 2026 +195

Seems more like a project than a plan, I would think

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asusc Apr 10, 2026 +55

couldn’t be that famous project the president swore he knew nothing about, could it?

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yamirzmmdx Apr 10, 2026 +31

Nah. It's 2026 now. Clearly it's past the 2025 deadline.

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terry496 Apr 10, 2026 +3

I've got slightly over two thousand reasons to agree with you

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crimson_teacup Apr 10, 2026 +16

Yup, the old “make it fail, then say it failed” playbook. Starve a public service, jack prices, then yell “privatize.” At minimum, people should be bugging their reps relentlessly about USPS.

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Dematrus Apr 10, 2026 +4

The word 'people' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I prefer 'scum'.

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East_Oven_9948 Apr 10, 2026 +8

Don't tell them that or else you're somehow the bad guy

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wkaotp Apr 10, 2026 +239

Why does everything need to be for profit? It should be a service for the people.

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Creative_Parsnip_385 Apr 10, 2026 +98

Cuz that would be #socialism

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LBChango Apr 10, 2026 +35

We should go full capitalism. Sell public roads to any billionaire that wants them. Let them charge people to drive on them. Privatized police and military brought to you by Amazon and Meta. Fire fighters by way of subscriptions. Everything for sale to those that can afford it.

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CallRespiratory Apr 10, 2026 +54

'Hell yeah brother" - guy who makes $10/hr working at a gas station in rural Alabama

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WierdFinger Apr 10, 2026 +7

Man, I need to learn sarcasm like this. I always have to tell people that I am being sarcastic, like now... Go frell yourself. :)

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laplongejr Apr 10, 2026 +5

> Sell public roads to any billionaire that wants them. Let them charge people to drive on them. They wouldn't want to pay for maintenance. For now THEY use the roads *for free*.

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LBChango Apr 10, 2026 +4

You need to pay a higher tier if you want consistent maintenance. Duh.

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A_Queer_Owl Apr 10, 2026 +14

I work for a government run healthcare facility, we're required to make a profit, however we are also required to accept payment only through Medicare and Medicaid. so like what the f***.

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LittleBirdiesCards Apr 10, 2026 +2

You are my kids' option for healthcare and dental. How do I make it work for my kids?

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Deep90 Apr 10, 2026 +9

Someone wants it to fail so they can buy it for pennies.

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CallRespiratory Apr 10, 2026 +8

>Why does everything need to be for profit? Because this is America. F*** you, pay me.

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TessaThompsonBurger Apr 10, 2026 +7

It's f****** stupid. The country is literally a union. Of states, yes but of people. It isn't a business we're investing in to turn a profit, its a f****** people's union we pay dues into for service.

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Magic_Neil Apr 10, 2026 +10

It always has been, that’s why postal rates for letters and some parcels are so much lower than FedEx/UPS.

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I_am_not_JohnLeClair Apr 10, 2026 +5

It still is. Don’t let them fool you. USPS delivers to every single address in the good ol’ U S and A. For profit entities do not

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JoeSavinaBotero Apr 10, 2026 +8

USPS will even do last-mile deliveries for the other guys who don't want to drive out to the farm house to deliver a packet.

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I_am_not_JohnLeClair Apr 10, 2026 +6

“Cash-strapped” usps *literally* works for Jeff Bezos on Sundays. maga willful ignorance knows no bounds

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LowerRhubarb Apr 10, 2026 +2

Because Republicans believe anything to the left of hunting homeless and "lesser" people in the street is socialism. Except giving billionaires free money on the taxpayer dime, that's just what Jesus would do.

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ShelfDiver Apr 10, 2026 +1

Why not frame the fire department, cops, and roads the same way? F*** the media and the POS GOP.

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Worf1701D Apr 10, 2026

Doing something for the good of society is not what the current American emperor wants. He is determined to create a new GALATIC EMPIRE…..or something like that.

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MentokGL Apr 10, 2026 +84

Can't vote by mail if there's no mail

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +18

More expensive to drive to the polling location and more expensive to mail in your ballot. It's a win-win! /s

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filanwizard Apr 10, 2026 +59

A thing to remember is the payment structure into the pension fund that Congress forced the USPS into was specifically designed to fail. they have something where they have to make whole payments all at once or something while the private sector and even full government agencies pay in over time.

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Ndtphoto Apr 10, 2026 +24

Yeah that was a Republican initiative I think back in the Bush II days. Looking at politics now it's not even close to the most ridiculous things that are passed but it's still a 9 on the ridiculousness scale. Edit to add a link : https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/ Can't believe that was 20 years ago

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muftak3 Apr 10, 2026 +10

They were mandated to pay for retirees 75 years in advance within 10 years. Why they were bleeding money. It was repealed in 2022. I'm not sure where the $5B in savings from the repeal is going.

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brahbocop Apr 10, 2026 +2

I imagine it takes a long time for a business to recover from the shit it had to go through for almost 20 years.

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Jaschndlr Apr 10, 2026 +1

Isn't stopping pension contributions just them saying they're got going to comply with that anymore, or am I misunderstanding?

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BadDecisionPolice Apr 10, 2026 +15

I’m sure this has absolutely nothing to do with upcoming elections.

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barfly2780 Apr 10, 2026 +56

Raise taxes on the top 10% of the country. That’ll pay for it.

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DonnerPartyPicnic Apr 10, 2026 +21

Close loopholes that the top 10% use to dodge taxes*

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PandaJesus Apr 10, 2026 +1

***Do both***

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GovernorHarryLogan Apr 10, 2026 +6

The vast majority of the top 10% of earners in this country own their own businesses and essentially pay 0 federal income tax as it is through various deductions reducing their "income" to essentially 0. About half of US households pay 0 in income tax actually. It isnt about raising their taxes. That would still equate to 0. It is about reforming the tax code as a whole to ensure they, and really everyone, can not reduce their burden to 0 and pay their fair share.

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Easy_Bite6858 Apr 10, 2026 +2

I really try to avoid the terminology "paying their fair share" because it invites endless semantic dissection of what fairness means in context. Right idea but wrong execution. Instead, we should approach it with economic and mathematical modeling with the express purpose of checking the negative externalities of wealth inequality while still fostering growth (which are naturally in conflict). Similar to how a speed limit is intended to optimize between safety and flow of traffic. Taxes represent a non-market way to check against the economic (and therefore political) weight of accrued capital and wealth inequality. Taxes are about social protection and defense.

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4RCH43ON Apr 10, 2026 +10

The postal service is essentially a solvent business that gets looted by the government to keep undermining it.

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brahbocop Apr 10, 2026 +1

Finally, a commenter that f****** gets it!

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Throwawayconcern2023 Apr 10, 2026 +64

I seek a 40% drop in executive pay first.

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mishap1 Apr 10, 2026 +42

Postmaster general gets like $300k/yr + performance bonuses. Not quite what UPS and FedEx paid their CEOs at $24M and $13M last year. Dejoy used to make over $1M/yr as CEO of XPO. Makes you think he's in it for other things beyond that salary.

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tidal_flux Apr 10, 2026 +18

The current Postmaster General was on the board of directors at FedEx. What a strange coincidence… https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/officers/pmg-ceo.htm

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HimTiser Apr 10, 2026 +10

I wonder how much money they make from all the presorted junk mail I get? 10% of the mail I get is legitimate.

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Weorth Apr 10, 2026 +5

You can refuse that junk mail, just gotta let the post office know you don't want it. Used to sort stuff and they told me you basically ask not to have it given to you and they don't put it in your stack when casing.

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HimTiser Apr 10, 2026 +1

Definitely worth a shot! Thanks

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +1

Electronic banking and electronic transactions put a huge dent in USPS's daily delivery volume. A couple of clicks here and there don't cost anything.

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Xbox_Lost Apr 10, 2026 +5

Here's 80 cents, will you drive this letter across the country for me? You want a dollar? Screw you! I'll do it myself.

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thereverendpuck Apr 10, 2026 +3

If USPS wanted to save money just suspend deliveries on Saturdays until around the holidays. The increase in postage? Not a big fan but we’ll get by.

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TrainingSword Apr 10, 2026 +6

So much for forever stamps

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Martin_Aurelius Apr 10, 2026 +10

Before "forever" stamps you had to buy smaller stamps to make up the difference whenever they raised the cost of stamps. When stamps went from 33¢ to 34¢ you had to buy a bunch of 1¢ stamps to make up the difference. Now with forever stamp you can still use your stamp you bought for 50¢ back in 2018 without any additional cost, even though current postage is 78¢.

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +7

Forever going up in price.

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +2

Could be worse: [https://media.azpm.org/master/image/2024/7/15/element/global-postage-comparison.jpg](https://media.azpm.org/master/image/2024/7/15/element/global-postage-comparison.jpg) *(This chart was compiled in 2024.)*

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rockerscott Apr 10, 2026 +2

Just make postage a whole dollar amount instead of this $0.78 garbage.

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scenr0 Apr 10, 2026 +2

Stamps are literally 78 cents right now. The last time I looked it was 61 cents. And now they want to raise it again?! Wtf?!

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invalidpassword Apr 10, 2026 +4

The loss of pensions will make for a senior population often depending 100% on Social Security which doesn't pay a living wage in most cases.

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steathrazor Apr 10, 2026 +1

And they already claim SS will be bankrupt it 10ish years if something isn't done (or so I heard at least)

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OskaMeijer Apr 10, 2026 +1

SS can't go bankrupt by its very nature, all that can happen is payouts will have to drop to be in line with current incoming SS taxes.

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nutationsf Apr 10, 2026 +1

I believe it maybe massively over funded at this point

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invalidpassword Apr 10, 2026 +1

According to whom.

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marzipan07 Apr 10, 2026 +4

Ordinarily, when demand drops for a good, you can try to lower the price to try to spur demand, or you can increase the price to gouge the remaining customers which then causes more of them to no longer want the good. Postal service always chooses the second option.

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +3

That's just crazy! You're talking sense! This is the USPS we're talking about. Normal economics don't apply.

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brahbocop Apr 10, 2026 +2

You’re right actually! The USPS receives almost no government funding but is basically ran by the government so yes, normal economics don’t apply. Imagine a business that one political party hates and wants to go under, being allowed to make decisions on its behalf to, you know, try to make it go under.

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Knees0ck Apr 10, 2026 +1

This is a precursor the the very convenient closures &/or lessening of services for election season

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Aerchaiz Apr 10, 2026 +1

Running it like a business...

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 -1

Am I lucky, or do other folks get mail delivered on Sunday?

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Ditka85 Apr 10, 2026 +2

Kenosha WI gets Sunday mail.

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +2

If it's overtime, it's pricey.

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snowflake37wao Apr 10, 2026

make it 8¢ extra for stamps and dont suspend pensions, there are worse things getting funded we wont care. make it 4 and drop pensions and lose our mail and we’ll care in a burn your house down way stop fuckin around

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Mydreamsource Apr 10, 2026 -7

Yet another price hike with no plan to fix their poor service and falling approval ratings.

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Fantastic-Device-487 Apr 10, 2026 +1

They could start by saving gas and payroll by not delivering mail on weekends, **especially on Sunday!**

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Mydreamsource Apr 10, 2026

Yes, you are most correct. I have mail trucks in my neighborhood 7 days a week. Usually there are two. One for mail and one for packages. Probably only 1 in 10 mail deliveries is actual, useful mail. The rest are ads, or political oversized postcard, basically junk mail that goes straight to recycling.

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Devayurtz Apr 10, 2026 -9

I support both of these. Pensions are a dated concept - that's why like... nothing else has them. It's a ball and chain for the USPS. It will never stand a chance with that craziness.

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brahbocop Apr 10, 2026 +7

Yeah, no. Pensions should absolutely be a thing still and the USPS’s requirement to pre-fund their pensions was done to try and make them go out of business.

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Grins111 Apr 10, 2026 +2

This is the answer. It was done to ruin it to privatize it. It was done under bush in 2006. No other business has that requirement.

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dazed_delujenelle Apr 10, 2026 -57

USPS is literal garbage. If they weren’t constitutionally mandated to provide mail service they’d have been out of business years ago.

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oakleez Apr 10, 2026 +12

They're perfectly fine, current management excluded. It's not supposed to be a profitable business. It's supposed to be a service provided because we pay taxes. The GOP narrative that it's a bad thing because it "loses money" is utter nonsense.

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Seeteuf3l Apr 10, 2026 +1

Shouldn't it at least break even by law (which it hasn't managed to do) so to cover it's operating costs

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jaythebearded Apr 10, 2026 +20

Well they aren't a business so doesn't really apply

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Beznia Apr 10, 2026 +7

Yeah seriously... Why do they have to make money? It's a public service. I know why, it's just ridiculous they are used as a political pawn for seemingly no reason.

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Fracture-Point- Apr 10, 2026 +24

Yeah, and the fire department wouldn't exist either if they had to fund themselves. What's your point?

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dazed_delujenelle Apr 10, 2026 -20

At least the fire department doesn’t deliver my mail to the wrong address constantly!

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Fracture-Point- Apr 10, 2026 +7

Has the post office ever hosed down your neighbor's house when yours was on fire?

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