{"id":3912,"date":"2018-11-27T15:14:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3912"},"modified":"2018-11-27T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:14:48","slug":"will-congress-save-the-money-bleeding-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/will-congress-save-the-money-bleeding-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Congress save the money-bleeding Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3913\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/will-congress-save-the-money-bleeding-postal-service\/daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018.png\" data-orig-size=\"841,398\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Daily caller postal 11-27-2018\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018-300x142.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3913\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018.png 841w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Daily-caller-postal-11-27-2018-768x363.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/a>The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) lost nearly $2 billion in 2018. But that eye-popping number does not capture the full picture. The agency failed to pay $2 billion into its employees\u2019 health care fund, so its real loss this year is $4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This is not good. Congress designed the Postal Service to be a self-funding entity. Despite having to go through the appropriations process, USPS does not live off taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>How did the Postal Service find itself perennially running losses? The answer is simple: USPS revenue is too low and its costs are too high&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/27\/money-bleeding-usps\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) lost nearly $2 billion in 2018. But that eye-popping number does not capture the full picture. The agency failed to pay $2 billion into its employees\u2019 health care fund, so its real loss this year is $4 billion. This is not good. Congress designed the Postal Service to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[161],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-3912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-daily-caller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-116","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3912\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}