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All of a sudden democrat love the Post Office

The U.S. Postal Service is older than the country itself, delivers to 153 million homes and businesses six and increasingly seven days a week and consistently ranks as the public's most trusted federal agency.

Yet misinformation about it abounds, including in the commentary by James Gattuso about the Postal Service's recent financial report for Fiscal Year 2015. The piece painted an unrelentingly negative picture of postal finances while referring frequently to a possible taxpayer bailout.

In fact, the USPS annual report detailed not only challenges but also several highly positive trends. It illustrated that the past fiscal year yielded a $1.2 billion operating profit—the second consecutive year that revenue earned delivering the mail exceeded the costs of delivering the mail by more than $1 billion. And it's the third straight year that postal operations have been in the black—with $2.9 billion in total operating profits over that period.


All this, mind you, without a dime of taxpayer money. For decades the USPS has by law relied on the revenue it earns.

These impressive performances are no fluke; rather, they're based on structural factors. Following the worst recession in 80 years, mail fell sharply, dropping 10 percent in 2009 alone. But as the economy gradually improves, letter revenue has stabilized. Meanwhile, with online shopping growing because of the Internet, package revenue is skyrocketing—which augurs well for the future. In fiscal 2015, package revenue increased by 11.4 percent over the prior year.

The timing of the good news contained in the report couldn't be better, with the holidays approaching. The Postal Service projects the delivery of 15.5 billion cards, letters and packages from Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve—including a record 600 million packages.
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It's also true that the Postal Service faces challenges; albeit not as often pictured. The major one has nothing to do with the mail and everything to do with congressional politics.
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Well, so much for the OP attempt at stupid propaganda. Moving on.
 
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