<p><pre><code>  One stipulation of the PAEA has caused controversy. 
  It 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.
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<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Postal_Regulatory_Commission" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Postal_Regulatory_Commission</a><p>How many retirees do you know that live fifty years in retirement?  If the Post office were liquidated, the retirees would be dead two decades before the mandated fund would run out.<p>Republicans hate public services as a matter of ideology.  They don&#x27;t need to be paid to do this, they do it for fun.