Richest country in human history

A couple days after a deal with Amazon

Capitalism needs to be left in the past www.businessinsider.com/usps-suspends-payments-to-employee-pension-plan-free-up-cash-2026-4

April 09, 2026 - 23:35 UTC

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"We don't have the money!" the United States says, while spending over a billion dollars a day in a war that was started for no reason.
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The up front pension funding was their whole plan to tank the postal service to begin with right? Wow.
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Is that requirement a recent change? Like from dejoy?
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did they try running it more like a business
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just in time for it all to fall apart in October/November for some odd reason...
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someone is going to make a killing scrapping sorting machines
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the gop has been going after usps for decades, and the union has been helping them all along
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Boycott Amazon, if you haven’t already
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Gee, I hope no one remembers where the term going postal came from
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i think a reminder may be in order!
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What if we all went to the White House and told them to fix it.
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This should not even remotely be legal.
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Paywall
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the USPS is funded entirely via postage. It receives no funding from the government/taxes. Congressional mandates on the budget have messed things up for a while.
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One thing I just thought about

capital must expand the mass of investment to maintain the same absolute surplus value even as the rate declines. For a public service buying from private suppliers input costs rise structurally over time regardless of the public institution’s efficiency
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(In this example the private logistics they depend on, which are also supported by subsidies from the government but aren’t publicly owned)

Socialism is so obviously necessary it’s not even funny
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My mom works for them, is having to take a big unpaid gap for a spine surgery soon, and if she gets out of that and just doesn't have a job it's going to be genuinely crushing... :/
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Fun fact about the USPS pension: it is statutorily required to hold assets to account for 100% of current and future liability. It's balance sheet is so hilariously bloated compared to what is otherwise considered to be a healthy pension fund that it's essentially been legislated to fail.
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@ushouseofreps.bsky.social money for bombs that are used in an illegal war, but not for the people who actually serve the American citizens?
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usps is also ran by people who used to be on the boards of fedex and ups, companies that open about wanting the usps gone
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They *think* they want it gone bc they don't really consider that the rural folk who will either have no service or $100 for a little package will simply not order little packages. They think they'll be able to gouge the last mile delivery instead of it being subsidized for them
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Richest country in human history.

I work every day and haven't had health insurance for a year.
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The fun part is that I'm 51, an age when you should see a doctor regularly for healthy visits. Just out here hoping for the best I guess.
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C'mon now, corporate media tried mocking, shaming AND guilting us commoners into being not-poor. They've done everything they can so the problem is clearly one that just can't be solved.
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They always say things like "The Postal Service lost $9 billion" but that's just the cost to the tax payers. It's a service. We don't talk about the military "losing" a trillion dollars or whatever it costs now. USPS is not a business.
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Pretty simple to understand stuff for anyone with a functioning brain.

I am however beyond exhausted by the fact that this might as well be mandarin to ~60% of the population that still believe in reaganomics
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The liquidity crisis is the fault of Republicans.
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This is a goddamn shame. The USPS is like the one thing that gets me all liberal patriotic about this country and theyre gonna nuke it
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Ben Franklin is gonna generate so much electricity from spinning in his grave
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Article 1 of the constitution calls for post offices and post roads; most government services aren't mentioned in the constitution. As a rural citizen i wish we had postal banking as well since I know many unbanked people.
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A little context; the forced pre-funding that had been mandatory for the post office pension was a tactic to make the USPS look poorer. Books are going to look good as hell before it gets sold.
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I am confused. Are you saying that the USPS relies on private services for last mile delivery?
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You know what will replace capitalism? Mercantilism.
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I’m so tired of my fellow working class carrying water for capitalists. This sucks. Stop it.
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