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华盛顿6月24日路透电 — 美国邮政总局局长戴维·施泰纳周三向国会表示，这家陷入财务困境的机构商业模式已经崩坏，需要立法者出手帮助扭转运营局面。
“归根结底，我们已经没有现金了。我们正挪用员工退休基金来维持运营，”施泰纳在提交给美国参议院委员会的书面证词中写道，并警告称，如果停止推迟履行债务义务，该局可能在数月内耗尽运营资金。“美国邮政总局的商业模式已经崩坏，国会需要采取行动加以修复。”
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施泰纳希望国会为邮政总局的亏损运营提供补偿，并推动其他改革措施。今年3月，施泰纳曾表示，邮政总局正在聘请重组顾问以解决财务困境。
一个核心争议问题是，美国邮政总局是否应该继续向1.7亿个地址提供每周六天的投递服务——这项服务每年耗资34亿美元，其中70%的线路处于亏损状态，施泰纳说道。该局1.8万个邮局中约有58%也处于亏损状态。
自2007年以来，美国邮政总局已累计净亏损约1200亿美元。随着人们转向数字通信，该局最盈利的一类邮件业务大幅下滑，而邮政总局仍需维持成本高昂的全国投递网络。
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美国邮政总局上月宣布，暂停差旅、办公用品和咨询顾问等非必要开支。施泰纳在一份给管理人员的备忘录中表示，这些举措“旨在保护核心运营，确保我们能够继续履行所有基本义务”。
上月，美国邮政总局宣布将暂停向联邦养老金计划缴纳雇主部分，并计划将一等邮票价格从78美分上调至82美分，自7月12日起生效。
暂停员工养老金缴款将在截至9月30日的财季节省25亿美元，到2030年预计可累计节省150亿美元。
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US Postal Service tells Congress it needs help, running out of cash
2026-06-24 1:59 PM UTC / Reuters
By David Shepardson
June 24, 2026 1:59 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
Employees work as the largest United States Postal Service (USPS) facility gears up for the busiest shipping time of the year, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Jorge Garcia Purchase Licensing Rights
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress on Wednesday that the financially struggling agency has a broken business model and needs help from lawmakers to turn around its operations.
“The bottom line is that we are out of cash. We are borrowing from our employees’ retirement funds to continue operations,” Steiner’s written testimony before a U.S. Senate committee said, warning it could run out of operating funds in months if it stopped deferring obligations. “The Postal Service has a broken business model and action is needed by Congress to fix it.”
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Steiner wants Congress to compensate it for money-losing operations and make other reforms. In March, Steiner said the Postal Service was hiring restructuring advisers to help address its financial troubles.
One key question is whether USPS should continue to deliver to 170 million addresses six days a week, which costs $3.4 billion annually — and 70% of those routes lose money, Steiner said. About 58% of its 18,000 Post Offices also lose money.
The Postal Service has reported net losses of about $120 billion since 2007, as first-class mail, its most profitable product, has fallen sharply with the shift to digital communication even as the agency must maintain costly nationwide delivery operations.
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USPS said last month it was suspending non-essential spending on travel, office supplies and consultants. Steiner told officers in a memo the moves were “to protect core operations and ensure we can continue meeting all essential obligations.”
Last month, the Postal Service said it would temporarily suspend employer payments for a federal pension program and plans to raise the price of first-class mail stamps to 82 cents from 78 cents, effective July 12.
Suspending employee pension contributions will conserve $2.5 billion through September 30 and potentially $15 billion through 2030.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
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