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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Susan Haigh

US Postal Service expects to run out of cash in a year without help from Congress, postmaster says

Postal Service Finances - (Copyright 2025 the Associated Press. All Rights Reserved)

The U.S. Postal Service will run out of cash within a year unless Congress lifts a decades-old cap and allows the agency to borrow more money, the new postmaster general warned in an interview.

If it doesn't, the Postal Service might not be able to pay its employees or vendors by February 2027, with potentially dire consequences for mail delivery, Postmaster General David Steiner told The Associated Press.

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