Hello fellow USPS supporters,

I was waiting for some good news and I believe this is it. It looks like lawmakers are finally working to get rid of the mandate that forced the USPS to prepay retirement benefits.

Which would go a long way towards helping their financial issues. I learned about the mandate last year when I started this petition and tried to help spread awareness throughout the updates. It made no sense to me unless the goal was to purposefully kneecap the USPS. I'm glad they're finally working towards repealing it. 

Thank you to every single person that has signed this petition in support of the USPS. 

You have helped push things in a positive direction for the USPS and finally, after 14 years, it looks like there may be light at the end of their financial tunnel. 

If this passes, I believe it means mission accomplished. 

Contact your Rep to voice your support for HR 2382

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(NBC NEWS) "...In the meantime, the financial requirement has created a major economic drag on the Postal Service, causing it to appear to fall billions of dollars further into debt each year. Much of that negative balance only appeared on the ledgers because of the 2006 mandate.

The Postal Service “missed $48.2 billion in required payments for postal retiree health and pension benefits as of September 30, 2018,” a Government Accountability Office review in 2019 concluded.

The report noted that the agency’s liabilities had drastically increased because of the mandate, showing that the Postal Service's debt had grown to more than 200 percent of its revenue since the passage of the 2006 law.

“The 2006 Post Accountability Enhancement Act did something that was absurd, draconian and no other agency or private company ever has had to do,” Mark Dimondstein, the president of the American Postal Workers Union, said. “It manufactured a financial crisis in the post office."

The Postal Service said it supports the repeal of the prefunding mandate, but only “as a companion” to Medicare integration, a proposal previously floated in Congress that would merge retiree benefits with the federal Medicare program.

“The enactment of these two provisions together would have a very meaningful positive impact on the financial sustainability of the Postal Service," said David Partenheimer, a Postal Service spokesperson.

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