The "pre-fund" thing was repealed in 2022 under Biden (but the damage was already done) -

H.R.3076 - Postal Service Reform Act of 2022

So where is the current deficit coming from?

I.e., people paying bills online and the proliferation of more and expanded package delivery services like that provided by Amazon (which has been killing UPS and Fedex too).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142884607
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142899903

The biggest issue that is rarely mentioned is that USPS is the only carrier that provides service to every address (including rural) and other services still don't (which I suppose is part of the push for "drone delivery" ).

was channeled to fund Bush Jr's war. No mention of repayment but more stern budget hawking to let us know we just got off easy.

July 1, 1971. To commemorate the event, they raised the first class letter rate from 6 cents to 8 cents, and dropped the word "postage" from postage stamps

yet-to-be-born postal workers' pensions? (Shrub)

put a check in the mail for my husband last month. It took about 2 weeks to arrive in our post office box. (Different towns, different post offices.) I ordered a back support cushion from someone in the Midwest and tracked it on a tour of the eastern United States. It went through the postal hub near me twice. What a mess.

When they were first issued, by employer bought a couple'a thousand bucks worth. Really. They lasted a few years and saved, probably an average of 3 or 4 cents a stamp by the time he got through sending monthly invoices.

I don't know if it was a good investment for him, but the post office lost about 15 cents per stamp at the end of his last roll of stamps.

Did the speech repeater research the "restructuring costs"? Did they move beyond the instant eternal reflex to blame the recent contract for all costs? Did they ignore the absolute fact that the politically appointed officials have privatization and selling out on the front-burner? Did anyone ever figure out how mandatory reduction in service time and over consolidation have driven away business(without blaming the easy electronic alternatives)? They spend billions constantly building new consolidation centers which reduce jobs. OUR current labor force is orders of magnitude smaller than the past, which was semi-automated in modern times. Did they mention HOW they want to shrink the infrastructure into an investor attractive private package and cave to a "packages only" solution like some smaller countries?

It is a big picture. The "solutions" besides driving down wages and benefits seem to have a convenient goal of making goal of creating a stock bubble prize for some vultures. They have been consistently using media to sell the public on certain destructive ideas and leave people in the dark about postal realities so that they believe the myth that revenue comes from the Feds. Only stamps for revenue. Only looting from Congress. Only corrupted leadership from appointees. The real world transitions are filtered through this corruption.

Remember the Atlanta mega-center handling huge swaths of the South's mail with trucks backed up to the expressway parking areas for miles for weeks and messed up mail trucked far north to be inefficiently handled? More mega-centers, more focused on parcels. They expect a more efficient, consistent increase of an area-uneven delay of mail will avoid an Atlanta meltdown!

In short, the USPS gives the usual narrative, the parrot media repeats with concern trolling. Congressional committees respond with surprised outrage when the public cries out in bewildered pain.