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. 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. 

Credits

Guest:

  • Philip Rubio - 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"