It’s not entirely the post office’s fault.
, about why the Postal Service is in such a terrible state, the surprising factors that have blocked further reform, and what can be done to save it. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Let’s talk about what that means, because pre-funding retirement sounds great. But it also means you have to set aside a lot of money right away that you could be investing or spending in different ways. Explain a little bit why it became a problem. Now the agency can’t close a post office without going through this extensive review. And there’s always a lot of backlash. Nobody in Congress wants to let a post office close. Oftentimes that basically keeps the USPS from doing so. Also, it can’t raise prices. The Postal Service would like to raise prices, but again, that has to go through a long review before the Postal Regulatory Commission, which sort of treats it like an arbitration.
The junk mailers are also very active and effective at lobbying. They’re on the same page on a lot of stuff with the unions: Both would like to see costs cut a lot more, but they don’t really want to see big change. They benefit from the way things are working now.It’s funny because you’re talking about the junk mailers like a constituency. I’ve never thought of them that way.
Something previous postmaster generals have wanted to do is shift the all the postal workers into Medicare. That has support from the unions too. It would take care of the need to pre-fund care because it would just be picked up as part of Medicare.Yeah. But there are issues with that in Congress because Republicans don’t want to increase the size of the Medicare trust fund.
In 1970, there was a big strike by postal worker unions, mainly in big cities like New York and Chicago. But even just that almost brought the country to its knees because people still depended so much on the mail. That was the crisis that sort of led to the reconfiguring of the Postal Service itself.
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