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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons by lotsofpulp on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:19PM (#50433781)
PAEA 2007 required funding of accrued liabilities for the USPS, same as PPA 2006. However, other governments in the US are not required to fund any liabilities for post employment benefits, at all.

https://www.congress.gov/109/plaws/publ435/PLAW-109publ435.p...

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Re:USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons by KerrAvon on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:33PM (#50433906)
Yup.

https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...

> The Trump Task Force acknowledged that without the costs imposed by the Post-Retirement Health Care Mandate, USPS would today be profitable on an operating basis.

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