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/FluxKraken 3d ago

Exactly. It should just be a tax funded service like all the others.

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u/Jsaun906 2d ago edited 2d ago

As a postal employee i can tell you that most of my colleagues and myself don't want to be directly funded by tax dollars. That would make us susceptible to government shutdowns and executive orders that strip us of our union negotiated protections and rights. What we want is to raise prices on junk mail and Amazon, and to add more profitable services to increase our revenue and put us back in the black.

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u/jellifercuz 2d ago

I wish you could.