USPS
I'm watching a football game on the NFL channel and I just saw a commercial for the United States Postal Service. It was a feel good commercial. Nice music and pretty pictures. But it was unfocussed and wasn't selling anything. Not stamps. Not packages. Not jobs. Nothing. How do they justify wasting money on 'name recognition' commercials when they keep saying they are broke?
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I think that feel good commercials can generate sales just through the appearance of providing a safe haven. Doubt the cost of the ad is a measurable portion of their expenses,
Conspiracy theorists believe making the post office fund their employees retirement years into the future
was a gimmick to balance the US budget.
Postal employees also have to pay into Social Security now. They didn't have to before.
If they have a US government pension, why would they need SS.
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/stamp-packets-and-more1
Unless I missed it somewhere Section 102.5 of Title 1 has never been repealed.
Basically, the USPS has to spend whatever they make.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-72/pdf/STATUTE-72-Pg134.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-84/pdf/STATUTE-84-Pg719.pdf#page=1
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2016-title39-vol1/pdf/CFR-2016-title39-vol1.pdf
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title39&edition=prelim