From wikipedia,
"The PAEA stipulates that the USPS is to make payments of $5.4 - $5.8 billion into the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund, each year, from 2007 to 2016 in order to prefund 50 years of estimated costs. This requirement also explicitly stated that the USPS was to stop using its savings to reduce postal debt, which was stipulated in Postal Civil Service Retirement System Funding Reform Act of 2003"
In other words the management of USPS was breaking the 2003 law by paying off debt with the savings, instead of funding the separated USPS health system. The 2006 law also forced the USPS to quit obscuring their financials and use accepted accounting practices among other things.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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