Why did conservatives ruin the post office?

The have been losing money since 2007, when congress passed a bill that forces them to pay pensions for their employees for the next 90 years. Pensions for people who don’t don’t even exist yet. 2006 and before the USPS was making hundreds of millions a year in profits. But because trump said the post office was bad, now people like you who didn’t know anything about it before hate it too. I love in a rural area and if it wasn’t for the post office, it would cost me $15-20 to send a letter to someone through fedex. USPS does it for 50¢. If I ever need to send a package out it’s a similar story

why the fuck would you send a letter to anyone in this day and age? the post office is dying. let it go. stop trying to prop it up for literally no reason

40% of Americans are an Emergency bill away from bankruptcy... One of the richest, sure, on average, definitely not by mean

Check out the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act that was signed into law by Bush in 2006.
The legislation has screwed up the finances of the USPS by requiring them to fund pension obligations
all the way to 2056. This, along with other arcane mandates, greatly hampers their ability to turn a profit.

If USPS is privatized, mail costs to rural F'n Americants will at least triple.

And you can CLOSE DOWN all those ONE HORSE post offices that are used as social gatherings for those living out in the middle of nowhere.

You're a fucking idiot. The post office began having losses in the 1990s when the internet became a thing. In fact, the USPS tried getting a tax on emails to offset their lost revenue. I guess you missed that little detail. Gramma and Aunt Tilly could just email each other instead of spending a quarter on a stamp. Oh wait, what's this? Go paperless and pay online? There's another loss since the 90s.

But please- go ahead and scream ORANGE MAN BAD.

It doesn’t need to be ‘propped up’, repubicucks just need to stop being such fucking apes and not make it pay pensions for people that don’t even exist

>requiring them to fund pension obligations
Wow, so making them accountable for their financial obligations makes them less profitable?? What kind of voodoo economics is this???

remember when filing taxes was free if you wanted it to be? that's becoming more and more impossible with each passing year because tax filing corporations pay off congresspeople to pass laws making it impossible

Alex, "What are forms 1040-A and 1040-EZ?"

Apparently the same economy that cries when they use all their cash for buy backs, pound their first for welfare, then whine about paying their taxes....

Holy shit. Are American companies niggers???