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How Stagflation Is Remaking the US Postal Service
With inflation hovering near 2.3 percent and GDP growth at just 1.5 percent, the US Postal Service is facing a uniquely stagflationary squeeze. In this episode of Stagflation Conversations, Lucas and Luna dig into the mail carrier's latest financials: first-class mail volume down another 3 percent year-over-year, package deliveries flat, and a $6.5 billion annual loss driven by a mandated retiree healthcare prefunding requirement that dates back to 2006. They trace how the 1970s energy crisis and the 2008 financial crash each reshaped the service's cost structure, and why the…
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