2026年3月4日 美国东部时间晚上7:39 / 路透社
作者：大卫·谢泼德森
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一名邮政工作人员于2025年12月2日在美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的美国邮政服务（USPS）处理与配送中心运送装满包裹的箱子。路透社/丹尼尔·科尔
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- 摘要
- 公司
- 邮政局长将于3月17日在国会作证
- 自2007年以来，美国邮政已亏损1200亿美元
- 斯坦纳称：“如不改变，我们将在12个月内耗尽现金”
华盛顿，3月4日（路透社）- 美国邮政服务公司（USPS）邮政局长大卫·斯坦纳在接受路透社采访时表示，该公司正在聘请重组顾问，以应对日益严重的财务困境。
路透社去年12月首次报道称，斯坦纳认为美国邮政可能最早在2027年初就会出现资金枯竭。自2007年以来，美国邮政净亏损约1200亿美元，其最盈利的业务——一等邮件的业务量已降至20世纪60年代末以来的最低水平。
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斯坦纳表示，美国邮政已聘请咨询公司Alvarez & Marsal进行短期合作，以协助规划各种可能的应对方案。
“如果我们不采取任何不同的措施，12个月内我们就会耗尽现金，”斯坦纳周四告诉路透社，“我不想等到距离资金耗尽还有六周时才说，‘哎呀，我们该怎么办？’”
斯坦纳将于3月17日在美国众议院作证，说明美国邮政的财务状况，并警告称，如不改善现状，2027年2月可能无法投递情人节贺卡。
斯坦纳指出，美国邮政的邮件量比15年前的峰值每年减少了1100亿件，按当前价格计算，这相当于860亿美元的收入损失。
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上个月，美国邮政公布季度净亏损12.5亿美元。美国邮政呼吁政策制定者改革邮政服务公务员退休系统的债务，给予美国邮政更大的定价灵活性，并提高其150亿美元的法定债务上限（该债务上限早已达到）。
“如果我们无法从外部获得帮助，无论是来自监管机构还是国会的债务上限支持——那么一切都必须摆在桌面上重新考虑，”斯坦纳表示。
斯坦纳希望能够提高一等邮件当前78美分的价格，并认为美国人愿意为每封信支付90或95美分，而世界上许多地方的邮资都在2美元以上。
美国邮政于今年1月推出了一个在线投标平台，接受关于进入其最后一公里配送网络的提案，向更广泛的客户开放了全国18,000多个目的地配送单元和地方处理中心，以筹集急需的资金。
美国邮政每周六天向超过1.7亿个美国地址提供投递服务，最后一公里配送是整个投递过程中成本最高的部分。这也是联邦快递（FDX.N）、联合包裹服务公司（UPS.N）和亚马逊等公司的高成本环节。
2022年，国会提供了约500亿美元的十年期财务援助，并要求其未来的退休人员加入政府医疗保险计划。
该法律取消了美国邮政为现任和退休员工预先支付75年退休人员医疗保险福利的要求，而这一要求是任何企业或其他联邦实体都不面临的。斯坦纳的前任路易斯·德乔伊在2021年告诉国会，若不进行改革，邮政服务将陷入“死亡螺旋”。
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US Postal Service hiring restructuring advisers as it could run out of money in 2027
March 4, 2026 7:39 PM UTC / Reuters
By David Shepardson
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- Postmaster General to testify before Congress March 17
- USPS has lost $120 billion since 2007
- ‘We are out of cash in 12 months’ without changes, Steiner says
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service is hiring restructuring advisers to help address its mounting financial troubles, Postmaster General David Steiner told Reuters in an interview.
Reuters first reported in December that Steiner believed the Postal Service could run out of money as soon as early 2027. USPS has reported net losses of about $120 billion since 2007 as first-class mail, its most profitable product, has fallen to its lowest volume since the late 1960s.
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USPS hired consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal for a brief engagement to help with planning for all scenarios, Steiner said.
“We are out of cash in 12 months if we don’t do anything different,” Steiner told Reuters Thursday. “I do not want to be in a position where we’re six weeks out from running out of cash, and we say, Oh heck, what are we going to do?”
Steiner will testify before the U.S. House of Representatives on March 17 to talk about the Postal Service’s financial situation and will warn that without improvements there could be no Valentine’s Day cards delivered in February 2027.
Steiner noted that USPS mail volumes are down 110 billion pieces of mail per year from the peak 15 years ago, which translates into $86 billion in revenue at current prices.
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Last month, USPS reported a net quarterly loss of $1.25 billion. USPS has called on policymakers to reform the Postal Service Civil Service Retirement System obligations, give USPS more flexibility over pricing and increase its $15 billion statutory debt limit, which it hit years ago.
“If we can’t get help from the outside, from either our regulator or from Congress on the debt limit — everything’s got to be on the table,” Steiner said.
Steiner wants to be able to raise prices over the current 78 cents for first-class mail and thinks Americans would be willing to pay 90 or 95 cents per letter, when much of the world pays $2 or more.
USPS in January launched an online bidding platform to take proposals for access to its last‑mile delivery network, opening more than 18,000 destination delivery units and local processing centers nationwide to a broader range of customers that could raise badly needed funds.
USPS delivers to more than 170 million U.S. addresses six days a week, with the last mile the most expensive part of deliveries. The last mile is also expensive for companies like FedEx FDX.N, opens new tab UPS UPS.N, opens new tab and Amazon.com.
In 2022, Congress provided about $50 billion in financial relief over a decade and required its future retirees to enroll in a government health insurance plan.
The law eliminated requirements for USPS to pre-fund retiree health benefits for current and retired employees for 75 years, a requirement no business or other federal entity faces. Steiner’s predecessor, Louis DeJoy, told Congress in 2021 the postal service was on a “death spiral” without reforms.
Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Aishwarya Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed and David Gregorio
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