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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

US Postal Service could run out of funds this year. Is it worth saving?

President Donald Trump has threatened to veto any coronavirus aid package that includes a bailout for the U.S. Postal Service, calling the agency a joke.

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By Madeleine Brand • Apr 29, 2020 • 1 min read

President Donald Trump has threatened to veto any coronavirus aid package that includes a bailout for the U.S. Postal Service, calling the agency a joke. But the post office is on track to lose $2 billion a month during this pandemic and completely run out of money by September.

“What we’re seeing happening today is the wheels being yanked off of a 245-year-old government service,” says Philip Rubio, former mailman and current history professor at North Carolina A&T University.

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    North Carolina A&T University, author of “Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service"

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