The Post Office has relatively unique pension treatment, because it is quasi-governmental and part of the spinoff was Congress deciding that the Post Office should not be able to transfer unfunded pension liability to taxpayers.
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"They're profitable, if you assume the costs of their pension / retirement healthcare is zero" is a pretty vacuous statement. No adjustment for those costs, whether relatively conservative or sensible but with rather more risk added, gets them close to profitable.
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Note that the clueful people arguing aren't saying "They're profitable! Because math!", they're saying "Profitability isn't even a goal, of course we have to inject many billions of dollars into them, it's a government function."
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Approximately nobody making an argument about the USPS’s profitability is actually interested in the USPS’s profitability. It’s a proxy for something else. And to the extent that’s true, everything you’re saying here is a non sequitur.
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To see this is true, imagine I’m able to sneak a trillion-dollar liability onto their books today. That would make a noticeable difference in their real-world profitability without either bolstering or detracting from the actual argument either side is making about profitability.
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