2026年4月9日 美国东部时间上午10:45 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：艾米·皮奇（Aimee Picchi）
艾米·皮奇是CBS财经频道（CBS MoneyWatch）副主编，负责商业和个人财经报道。她曾供职于彭博新闻社，并为《今日美国》《消费者报告》等全国性新闻媒体撰稿。
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美国邮政署（USPS）正暂停向联邦雇员退休系统（FERS）缴款，该系统是为其员工及其他公务员设立的养老金计划。目前该机构正深陷亏损，面临资金耗尽的风险。
“美国邮政署正走向现金危机，”美国邮政署发言人戴维·沃尔顿（David Walton）在发给CBS新闻的声明中表示，“我们此次暂停联邦雇员退休系统缴款的举措，有助于为我们的运营和其他必要开支节省现金。”
美国邮政署在周四的一份声明中透露，该机构每月需向员工养老金计划缴款约4亿美元。邮政署表示，将继续向退休计划拨付员工个人缴款，同时也会照常向联邦员工另一项退休计划“节俭储蓄计划”（Thrift Savings Plan）拨付雇主自动缴款和匹配缴款，以及员工个人缴款。
一年内耗尽现金
此次临时暂停养老金缴款前，邮政署长戴维·施泰纳（David Steiner）上月曾警告国会，若不调整路线，邮政机构将陷入财政危机。他表示，相关调整措施包括将首类邮票价格上调至95美分，或将当前每周6天的投递频次缩减至5天及更少。
施泰纳称，若不采取此类调整措施，美国邮政署可能在12个月内耗尽现金，进而导致邮件投递停摆。
多年来，美国邮政署一直深陷成本高企、邮件量锐减的困境，2025年亏损高达90亿美元。尽管邮政署已出台一项为期10年的计划以削减开支、恢复盈利能力，但随着邮件量持续下滑、投递成本上升，该机构仍面临重大财政挑战。
周四，美国邮政署首席财务官卢克·格罗斯曼（Luke Grossmann）在一份声明中表示，“邮政运营出现流动性不足的风险，远高于不缴付当前到期款项对养老金基金造成的任何长期风险。”
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美国邮政署称，暂停向联邦雇员退休系统缴款将在本财年节省约25亿美元资金。
美国邮政署3月曾宣布，计划临时上调邮资以覆盖因伊朗战争导致的燃油成本上涨。该机构表示，从4月26日起将对部分邮资征收8%的附加费，额外收费将持续至2027年1月17日。
编辑：阿兰·谢尔特（Alain Sherter）
USPS suspends contributions to employee pensions after warning of “cash crisis”
April 9, 2026 10:45 AM EDT / CBS News
By Aimee Picchi
Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports.
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The U.S. Postal Service is suspending its contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System, a pension plan for its workers and other civil servants, as the agency struggles with mounting losses that put it at risk of running out of funds.
“The United States Postal Service is heading toward a cash crisis,” USPS spokesman David Walton said in a statement to CBS News. “The step we are now taking to suspend FERS payments helps conserve cash for our operations and other necessary payments.”
The USPS contributes about $400 million a month to its employee pension plan, the agency said in a statement on Thursday. The postal service said it will continue to send worker contributions to the retirement plan and will also transmit employer automatic and matching contributions, as well as employee contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan, another retirement program for federal workers.
Out of cash in a year
The temporary halt in contributions to the USPS program comes after Postmaster General David Steiner warned Congress last month that the postal agency is heading for a financial crisis without a course correction. Those changes could include raising the cost of a first-class stamp to 95 cents or reducing delivery from its current six days per week schedule to five or fewer, he said.
Without such changes, Steiner said, the USPS could run out of cash within 12 months, which could result in a stoppage of mail delivery.
The USPS has for years struggled with high costs and dwindling mail volume, culminating in a $9 billion loss in 2025. Although the Postal Service has a 10-year plan to reduce expenses and restore profitability, the agency still faces major financial challenges as mail volume continues to decline and delivery costs rise.
On Thursday, USPS Chief Financial Officer Luke Grossmann said in a statement that the risk of “insufficient liquidity for postal operations dramatically outweighs any longer-term risk to the pension funds from not making the currently due payments.”
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Suspending payments to FERS will free up about $2.5 billion in the current fiscal year, the postal agency said.
The USPS said in March that it plans to temporarily hike postage prices to cover mounting fuel costs due to the Iran war. The agency said it will add an 8% surcharge on some postage prices beginning April 26, with those added costs remaining in place through Jan. 17, 2027.
Edited by Alain Sherter
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