BTW:
The $8.5Bil yearly loss is not the ONLY cost that taxpayers have to cover..
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•United States Postal Service. In 1970, the Cabinet-level Post Office Department was replaced by an independent agency within the executive branch, without a separate corporate charter.[28] As an entity of the federal government, it neither collects nor pays state sales, property or income taxes.[29] (Interestingly, the Service pays federal gasoline tax, though only Kentucky and Oregon indicated that the Postal Service is not exempt from their state gasoline tax.[30]) The property held by the USPS was valued in 2006 at $23.1 billion, all exempt from tax with one quasi-exception.[31]
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JUST to be complete about this. To quote John Lennon..
"Imagine there's no gas tax.
It's easy if you try,
Tax the land below us?
That's not gonna fly. "
That's a huge chunk of State/Local revenue as well. So I'll wager we're up to about 18 or 20 USPS overnights/year D-Ray..
No wonder the USPS isn't driving electric vehicles eh? Put em all in left-drive Chevy Volts and see how THAT works for them...