P&R Funnies!
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Okay, with knowing the background: that war thunder one is actually pretty funny.
USPS was completely self-sustaining until 2006, when Congress inexplicably began requiring it to pre-fund retirement health benefits for all of its eligible employees and retirees, 75 years in advance. This unprecedented requirement cost USPS more than $5 billion per year for 16 years … which is almost exactly the amount they were in debt.
It was entirely explicable; the Republicans really didn't like the fact that a government service was operating in the black, because that runs counter to their 'everything the government does costs too much money and should be privatized' ethos, thus their actions to make the Postal Service bleed money.
It was mandated to break even until that same 2006 postal reorganization act tossed that out the window.
Huh, I guess it actually does exist: