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Letter to the Editor: U.S.P.S. fiasco continues. Is Odessa next?

I urge your readers once again to contact their members of Congress and demand that Congress fix the problem it created in 2006 for the United States Postal Service.

In 2006, Congress decreed that the USPS must fully fund current and future employees’ pension and health care costs to the tune of $5.5 billion a year. The Republican-dominated Congress required this funding to be done in 10 years to cover the costs for the next 75 years!

No business pays 75 years into the future for its employees’ pension and health benefits. No business pays such costs for employees not even born yet. However, C...

 

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