The Postal Service’s financial gap has widened to the point where the Office of the Inspector General says no single fix can close it. Instead, the agency modeled four broad scenarios, each combining different revenue, cost, and workforce changes. Together, they outline the trade-offs that would shape price, service, and jobs depending on the path Congress chooses. For postal employees, the differences are significant.
The first scenario keeps the Postal Service closest to its current form. It preserves six-day delivery, maintains the retail network, and avoids major workforce restructuring.
To make the numbers work, the model assumes roughly $20 billion a year in taxpayer funding to support universal service.
That level of public subsidy would stabilize operations without deep cuts, but it would also shift USPS from a self-sustaining model to a public-service model.
Canada has 5-day delivery for years, and it works fairly well.
Congress doesn’t have the appetite to give the USPS more money after forgiving $110 billion in debt just a few years ago. Their phones are ringing off the hook with constituents service issues, and Steiner clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, except to further deteriorate service. Any scenario must begin with cuts to a huge and bloated bureaucracy that’s inefficient and unaccountable. There is no defense for all of these jobs that don’t touch the mail; the service can’t deliver correctly and timely yet these jobs proliferate. Whatever the path forward is, it’s clear that David Steiner and Doug Tulino need to be out of the picture.
When is another Marvin Runyon going to be appointed Postmaster General
Totally agree…Tulino has had his hand in things for too many years and too many PMGs. Giving the organization billions of tax dollars each year would make upper management complacent and there really would not be any positive changes. If this happens, the organization should be placed back in the Cabinet. PMG 76 was picked by the president anyway.
Steiner is doing what trump wants!!!
He wants USPS to lose so much money the only
way out is to sell it off. He has 2 more years.
And has both houses.
Steiner has no real care about USPS.
The sooner you see that the more it all makes sense??