Dead Tree Edition--In Donahoe's Answer to Postal Bailout Criticism, we noted the Postmaster General's recent article explaining that the U.S. Postal Service's financial straits are a creation of Congress rather than actual financial losses. But the article omits key points, partly because the Postal Service can't afford to offend Congress right now with the unvarnished truth.
Here are six more things that ignorant critics in Congress and the news media need to consider about USPS finances:
1) Congressional game: The Postal Service is the victim of a Congressional accounting game. What Donahoe diplomatically labels "prepayment to the Retiree Health Benefit fund" was more accurately described by the Office of Inspector General as using "Postal Service funds to make the President's budget seem smaller." (See How USPS Could Bypass Congress on Saturday Delivery.)
Here are six more things that ignorant critics in Congress and the news media need to consider about USPS finances:
1) Congressional game: The Postal Service is the victim of a Congressional accounting game. What Donahoe diplomatically labels "prepayment to the Retiree Health Benefit fund" was more accurately described by the Office of Inspector General as using "Postal Service funds to make the President's budget seem smaller." (See How USPS Could Bypass Congress on Saturday Delivery.)
