{"id":16736,"date":"2026-04-10T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16736"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:30:30","slug":"amid-cash-shortfall-usps-halts-pension-contributions-which-will-free-up-2-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/amid-cash-shortfall-usps-halts-pension-contributions-which-will-free-up-2-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Cash Shortfall, USPS Halts Pension Contributions Which Will Free Up $2.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t bode well for USPS pensioners. Once on a motorcycle ride in the Napa wine country, I stopped for a break to get a beverage and snack at a small store and chatted with another motorcyclist doing the same. He was enjoying his last days of retirement, as the airline company he worked a career with changed ownership after bankruptcy, and he was losing his pension and would have to get a job. When someone else controls your retirement money, can you really depend on it? And as we&#8217;re heading into a severe financial collapse and reset, will existing pension funds still be able to pay retirees? I have a previous post about how the federal government doesn&#8217;t include certain unfunded obligations in the national debt, because they consider them non-binding (would make the debt over 4x the current $39 trillion). Included in that is Social Security and pensions&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/amid-cash-shortfall-usps-halts-pension-contributions-which-will-free-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/amid-cash-shortfall-usps-halts-pension-contributions-which-will-free-25<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_f30c9041-8de7-459d-a081-974fdd33603b\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Postal Service had previously warned Congress that without reforms to the pension funding and stamp prices, it could run out of cash in less than a year.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-15.png 800w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-15-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-15-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Kevin Killough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cash shortfall has led the U.S. Postal Service to suspend employer pension contributions starting Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision impacts the Federal Employees Retirement System, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/usps-halts-pension-contributions-warning-looming-cash-crisis\"><em>Fox News<\/em> reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Postal Service had previously warned Congress it could run out of cash in less than a year unless various reforms, including changes to pension funding and stamp prices, were enacted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspension will free up $2.5 billion in the current fiscal year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/who\/profile\/?_gl=1*csobzc*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwv-LOBhCdARIsAM5hdKftHrxPR919Bnd7cc0Gncn4ZKCVDC8uzAgiJhXjKy_7Jzrr5mwdurwaAlSQEALw_wcB&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADpMVX9HgBjGeADlBYY6wStTvzS8G\">The service says<\/a> it generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t bode well for USPS pensioners. Once on a motorcycle ride in the Napa wine country, I stopped for a break to get a beverage and snack at a small store and chatted with another motorcyclist doing the same. He was enjoying his last days of retirement, as the airline company he worked a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16736\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}