What Congress could do to actually help the Postal Service
Re: “Congress has tried to help Postal Service,” April 5 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Warren Daniels couldn’t be more wrong about how Congress has treated the U.S. Postal Service.
In 2006, the Republican Congress passed a law requiring the Postal Service to come up with 75 years of advance funding of retirement benefits for postal employees, and gave them 10 years to do that. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars; they operate solely off revenue generated by postage. If you remove that onerous burden that no other governmental entity or private enterprise has been required to perform, the Postal Service would be turning a profit every year.
If Congress wants to “help” the Postal Service, it can remove that ridiculous requirement and allow the USPS to perform a lot of other services that would help people wanting to mail packages and such.
John W. Thomas, Fort Collins
This letter was published in the April 10 edition.