With or without the financial hit from the coronavirus, the Postal Service has warned Congress for years that it can’t sustain its current business model.
Lawmakers haven’t made much ground on passing long-term postal reform legislation, but House Democrats passed a $1.5 trillion infrastructure-spending bill Thursday that would give the Postal Service $25 billion to modernize postal infrastructure and operations. The bill specifies that $6 billion of that money would go toward buying a delivery vehicle fleet.
