"Okay, I get the history is interesting, but do we really need the Post Office anymore?" After their first episodes of postal history dropped, Aileen and Maia kept hearing this question. So they moved this episode up to address it head-on because this isn't about nostalgia, it's about showing what we'd actually lose if we let the corporate capture of USPS continue.

They reveal the manufactured financial crisis: between 2007 and 2016, 87-92% of the Post Office's reported $62 billion in losses came from a single 2006 law requiring them to pre-fund retiree healthcare 75 years into the future for workers not yet born. An ugly chapter of postal history that is easily forgot today. No other entity in America faces this requirement. When Congress repealed it in 2022, $57 billion magically reappeared. The crisis existed only on paper, but created ...