{"id":69242,"date":"2026-03-17T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/us-postal-service-will-run-out-of-money-by-february-2027-says-agency-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:56:31","slug":"us-postal-service-will-run-out-of-money-by-february-2027-says-agency-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/us-postal-service-will-run-out-of-money-by-february-2027-says-agency-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"US postal service will run out of money by February 2027, says agency chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postmaster general David Steiner has called for change to federal law that caps USPS\u2019s borrowing at $15bn<\/p>\n<p>The US Postal Service will run out of funds within a year, unless lawmakers lift a cap on how much money the agency can borrow, according to the postmaster general.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Associated Press, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/usps-postmaster-general-steiner-privatization-b88684227b01c71f6674f9569ca8adc6\">David Steiner<\/a> warned that the postal service \u2013 which relies on stamps and service fees rather than tax dollars to deliver mail six days a week to every address in the country \u2013 would run out of cash for employees and vendors by February next year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/17\/us-postal-service-february-2027\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postmaster general David Steiner has called for change to federal law that caps USPS\u2019s borrowing at $15bn The US Postal Service will run out of funds within a year, unless lawmakers lift a cap on how much money the agency can borrow, according to the postmaster general. In an interview with the Associated Press, David &#8230; <a title=\"US postal service will run out of money by February 2027, says agency chief\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/us-postal-service-will-run-out-of-money-by-february-2027-says-agency-chief\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US postal service will run out of money by February 2027, says agency chief\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}