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.
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