Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Post Office tells Congress to stuff it
Because their retirement and health plans are funded far in advance of any other plan on the planet, the US Postal Service will not be making its next scheduled $5.5 Billion payment to the Treasury. This is not a real default but it will keep the USPS from runing out of money, which was the Republican plan when they passed the Fuck The USPS For Fed-Ex and UPS Law in the 2008 lame duck session.
The U.S. Postal Service affirmed it won’t make a required $5.5 billion payment due tomorrow to the U.S. Treasury for future retirees’ health care, an obligation the agency said must end for it to become financially viable.I hope Congress also allows the Post Office to charge UPS and Fed-Ex more for delivering their packages.
The service has said for months it couldn’t afford the payment, which was initially due last September, nor a $5.6 billion payment required by Sept. 30 for this year. Postal legislation passed by the U.S. Senate on April 25 would slow the schedule for those obligations. The House hasn’t acted on a different postal measure aimed at changes to help the service cope with declining mail volume.
The Postal Service, which has more employees than any U.S.- based publicly traded company other than Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT), lost $3.2 billion in the quarter ended March 31. It has said it expects to temporarily run out of cash in October unless Congress alters or ends the retiree health-care obligation and lets it make other changes that include ending Saturday mail delivery.
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