The delays are grounded in USPS’s continuing quest to break even. In 2021, Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy rolled out the 10-year Delivering for America plan, which was supposed to help USPS break even by 2023. Instead, it has continued to lose billions of dollars annually, even as double-digit rate increases have “driven all kinds of mail volume out of the system,” Paxton said. He called it “an absolute disaster.”
The USPS didn’t need any public funding at any until the Republicans started sabotaging it. It was self funded and doing well even with the scaffolding of stupid laws that it, and only it, were required to follow. Even with thier repeated poison pills they shoved down its throat, it was surviving. They had to put their own saboteur directly in charge to really bring it to its knees.