these payments are for future retiree health care benefits
75 years into the future, the have to pay 6 billion a
year for the next ten years for this. This setup was put
into place by republicans in 2006, to insure a default.
The USPS is not now nor was it ever meant to be a business
that made profit,it was a service for the people, and
has been in place since the country was born.
They found a way to kill it and chop it up for business
to make money from it, its a shame...alot of postal
employees are ex military, it gave them a decent paying
job and a way to feel as though they still were serving
their country.