(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.”
The Post Office has too many overpaid managers. MPOOs, district managers, Postmasters, station managers, and supervisors. Also cut their pensions out would save a lot of money and make them pay their full benefits like other corporations do their management teams.
I still wonder why all groups of carriers (rural, contract) are still
paid by an outdated formula where their routes are counted instead of timed like city carriers.
We have half the routes in our office get paid 8 hours each day. and work 4, 5 hours a day.
What company does that???
A 2015 engineering study done on city carriers ended with the study suggesting that the city carriers should go to an evaluated system not unlike the rural eval system. A rural carrier will complete more deliveries in a third less time because they have the incentive to finish and be done at an earlier time since they get to go home when they finish their route. City carriers end up having to stretch the day out so they hit eight hours…no incentive to work quickly but really the opposite.
If they are such a great deal for USPS why do they keep cutting the pay every 6 months???
Ruralbeast??? Why are all the new hires only female for rural carriers. We got one last year that’s 64 years old and can barely walk???
Yeah, they’ll save the USPS????