Making the USPS pay for the accrued retirement benefits of it&#x27;s workers isn&#x27;t onerous.<p>It totally makes sense for a shrinking business that likely will never grow into new markets. If the USPS cannot afford the pensions they are promising now, how can it ever hope to afford it later.<p>Unfunded pensions have been a huge disaster at the local level. It&#x27;s leading Chicago and Illinois into bankruptcy. It&#x27;s easy for government to promise great retirement benefits if they don&#x27;t actually have to pay to provide them.<p>All government should have to fund any accrued benefit for employees.<p>And for businesses, any sort of accrued benefit goes on their books as a liability. While they don&#x27;t have to pre-fund it, if they company doesn&#x27;t, it could make the company insolvent if the amount goes too high.