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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8\/10\/17 – Today\u2019s financial report shows the underlying business strength of the U.S. Postal Service while also indicating the need to address external matters beyond USPS control.<\/p>\n
The quarterly operating loss of $587 million puts the Postal Service in the red by $55 million three-quarters through the 2017 Fiscal Year. These figures reflect the impact of last year\u2019s rollback in stamp prices. Without the two-cent reduction in stamp prices, this quarter\u2019s revenue would be $500 million higher and the year-to-date revenue would be $1.5 billion higher.<\/p>\n
With the original stamp price, the year-to-date figures would show an operating profit of more than $1.4 billion. The figures would be on a par with those of the past three years, which had a combined operating profit of $3.2 billion. We would be talking about a government entity producing an impressive operating profit through earned revenue.<\/p>\n
The April 2016 rollback in stamp prices was the first since 1919, and it makes little financial sense because the Postal Service already has the industrial world\u2019s lowest rates. The rollback reduces revenue at USPS?which gets no taxpayer money?by $2 billion a year.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) is in the midst of a legally mandated review of the postage rate-setting system. The PRC has said it intends to issue a decision this fall. At present, USPS is constricted in its ability to adjust rates by no more than the Consumer Price Index (CPI), but the CPI is an economy-wide measurement of consumer goods and services that doesn\u2019t fit a transportation and delivery provider. The PRC has the ability to correct this mismatch and relieve the resulting financial pressure.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Congress should address the pre-funding burden it imposed in 2006, which requires USPS?alone among all public and private entities?to pre-fund future retiree health care benefits decades into the future. This produces an onerous annual burden of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n
Addressing these external financial burdens would allow USPS?which is based in the Constitution and which enjoys broad public and political support?to continue providing Americans and their businesses with the industrial world\u2019s most affordable delivery network.<\/p>\n
NALC President Fredric Rolando<\/p>\n
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