Letter to the editor: Congress should repeal law affecting Postal Service

Did you know, in 2006, Congress passed legislation that forced the U.S. Postal Services to prefund its retirement and health care to cover 75 years in the future and to do this in a 10-year window? This has cost the Postal Service $5.5 billion a year, and has put an undue financial burden on the Postal Service that no other company/business has been required to do.

Because the Postal Service was established in the U.S. Constitution (article 1, section 8 under the powers of the Congress “to establish Post Offices and post roads”), it is the general belief that the Postal Service is supported by our taxes. This is not true. None of our tax dollars go to Postal Service management. The Postal Service has been functioning as a service and a business for 236 years, unlike our Congress. Letter service has decreased but parcel service continues to go up, and the Postal Service provides a vital service to a huge section of America, rural America. No other company can offer this service.

Why would Congress target the Postal Service like this? So unfair. Let’s urge our representatives to work to repeal this law which is called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act as soon as possible.

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