and THAT was what threw them into massive debt, along with a loss of business as people started going more electronic. The pre-fund went away 3 years ago but the massive hole is still there.
And that provision was added in 2006 under Shrub and that year was also an election year, where for the first time in 12 years, Democrats took the House back, and installed Nancy Pelosi as Speaker (and in 2007, that is when we focused on getting the damn minimum wage increased from $5.15/hr to the current $7.25/hr). That minimum wage increase was slid on as a rider to an appropriations bill -
H.R.2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007
When I commuted to work, I used to drive by Ben Franklin's original Post Office/Printing Shop that was a couple blocks from my office (and they still sell stamps, including commemoratives and I would buy stamps in there at lunch time 
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