Comment Re:It's true (Score 5, Informative) 734
Congress and the Bush Administration passed the 2006 PAEA law which forced the USPS to submit over $5 billion a year in trust fund payments. This trust fund serves the purpose of transferring federal deficit to the USPS and artificially lowering the government's accumulated debt.
This is really a story about bad government policy and not about how technology is replacing the need for a post office.