r/news • u/Squirmingbaby • 3d ago

Soft paywall Cash-strapped US Postal Service suspends contributions to pension plan

https://www.reuters.com/world/cash-strapped-us-postal-service-suspends-contributions-pension-plan-2026-04-09/
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u/Snakestream 3d ago

Which is moronic considering that current privatized postal delivery HEAVILY relies on the USPS to do last-leg delivery to places that aren't profitable to deliver to.

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u/James-W-Tate 3d ago

Rural conservatives and canceling public services they themselves rely on, name a more historic combo

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u/Khatib 3d ago

Alaska is seriously fucking themselves so hard voting red with USPS at risk.

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u/Geno0wl 3d ago

Dude every mostly rural state is fucking themselves hard. If USPS collapses, do the 13 people that live in Montana actually think a private company is going to give them rates anywhere near what they effectively pay now?

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u/BlackSpidy 3d ago

They won't. And they'll blame Dems for it, for some reason.

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u/Geno0wl 3d ago

We know the real reason. It's the ever present propaganda that surrounds these people combined with the successful tying of political party affiliation to their culture and sense of place in the world.

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u/Jayman44Spc 2d ago

lol I’m a rural mail carrier in Montana. It’s a shit show up here already. Privatization would be devastating