USPS to suspend pension contributions, seeks 4-cent stamp price hike
Source: AP
Updated 3:44 PM EDT, April 9, 2026
The U.S. Postal Service said Thursday it has informed federal budget officials it will temporarily suspend its employer contributions to Federal Employees Retirement System annuities, allowing it to keep making payroll, paying suppliers and delivering the mail.
The Postal Service also wants to increase postage rates, including raising the price of a First-Class Mail Forever stamp from 78 cents to 82 cents. USPS filed notice Friday with regulators, who still need to approve the changes.
The step taken by the Postal Board of Governors to forgo the pension payments is meant to preserve cash and liquidity due to the Postal Service’s “ongoing, severe financial crisis,” Postal Service Chief Financial Officer Luke Grossmann said in an internal message to USPS employees. Officials have warned the USPS is on course to run out of cash by around February 2027.
Despite the suspension of employer contributions, effective Friday, current and future retirees will not be immediately impacted, Grossman said.
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Not in a gigantic country like the U.S., with huge rural areas and mountainous areas where there is little or no access to "internet" service or even cable or cell service.
That was an early focus of the term "RFD" = "Rural Free Delivery" - with the promise to deliver mail to every address in the U.S.
There was even the old "Andy Griffith Show" spinoff called "Mayberry R.F.D."
That's why the early push and fuss about Muskrat's "Starlink" being used for those areas. And then he went rogue.
