Regardless of pushes for more taxpayer money, the USPS is supposed to be self-sufficient, by law
The issue is now decades-old, but still persistent. The United States Postal Service is desperate for reform, even after taxpayer money is continually dumped into it. The December 2020 COVID relief legislation granted the USPS $10 billion, and the 2022 Postal Service Reform Act granted an additional $107 billion, and the recent Inflation Reduction Act grants $3 billion to the federal delivery carrier to enhance its fleet with electric vehicles.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have both extensively reviewed the issue of pension obligations in the USPS’s Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). It’s often compared to the previous major legislation before this year’s Postal Service Reform Act - the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006.
House lawmakers have passed the Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2024, directing the U.S. Postal Service to create new rules for tracking crashes involving its trucking contractors.