Why? Sounds like in Brooklyn, per the article, that needs to happen pretty badly. And the accounting is corrupt, well, welcome to America. But aside from unique local issues and stereotypical financial corruption, whats the problem with the USPS?

My understanding is its embarrassingly profitable for a .gov organization, until politicans play "hollywood accounting" games to make it look unprofitable for obvious political spin reasons. So that's how it remains in business for decades despite being reported continuously as a disaster.

The main problem is some long story about political polarization, which supposedly is always wrong. However, if the USPS workers were "correctly" polarized like the teachers union, they wouldn't be punished with hollywood accounting. It explains a lot about their retirement fund vs the local school districts retirement funding level, or even state gov retirement funding levels. The story is not just accounting corruption for political reasons, but WHY those political reasons exist vs other .gov groups in much worse conditions.