{"id":38674,"date":"2025-11-26T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=38674"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:34:42","slug":"the-postal-service-is-starting-fiscal-2026-with-more-red-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/11\/26\/the-postal-service-is-starting-fiscal-2026-with-more-red-ink\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postal Service is starting fiscal 2026 with more red ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed News Network: The Postal Service is starting fiscal 2026 with more red ink. USPS said it ended October with a $545 million net loss. That\u2019s more than double the net loss it projected for the month. USPS ended fiscal 2025 with a $9 billion net loss. The agency is heading into its busy peak season, which is also when it brings in the most revenue.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/prc.arkcase.com\/portal\/filings\/138660\">USPS preliminary financial information &#8211; USPS<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed News Network: The Postal Service is starting fiscal 2026 with more red ink. USPS said it ended October with a $545 million net loss. That\u2019s more than double the net loss it projected for the month. USPS ended fiscal 2025 with a $9 billion net loss. The agency is heading into its busy peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38675,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions\/38675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}