(April 8, 2026) — Washington, DC — Keep US Posted, a nonprofit advocacy group of consumers, nonprofits, newspapers, greeting card publishers, magazines, catalogs and small businesses, today urged Reps. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), chair and ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, to ensure that key reforms are included in any financial relief to keep the U.S. Postal Service from running out of cash in early 2027 as anticipated. In a letter sent today to Reps. Sessions and Mfume, Keep US Posted corrected and contextualized statements made by Postmaster General David Steiner in testimony before lawmakers last month — and made the case that any legislation should also enforce accountability, accessibility and affordability requirements to keep USPS from squandering yet another effort by Congress to financially stabilize the agency.
“The Postal Service does not have a revenue problem; it has a cost control problem,” former Congressman Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.), executive director of Keep US Posted, wrote in today’s letter. “Stamp prices have climbed 44 percent over the past 15 years, and rates for other mail products have risen even more. Yet despite these repeated increases, USPS has still lost more than $25 billion since Postmaster General DeJoy launched the 2021 Delivering for America plan — even after Congress provided $10 billion under the 2021 CARES Act and eliminated $120 billion in liabilities under the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022. Worse, performance has also deteriorated: over the past four years, USPS total factor and labor productivity fell to the lowest levels in the modern agency’s history. The Delivering for America plan is harming the mailing industry, and Congress should not provide additional aid without requiring meaningful, enforceable reforms — or USPS will be back on the path to insolvency.”
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