The total cost of printing and mailing the postcards was $28 million, with a total printing cost of $4.6 million.
was $28 million, with a total printing cost of $4.6 million, and the Trump administration was negotiating the reimbursement with the Postal Service for the cost.“No reimbursements have been made at this time,” said Postal Service spokesperson David Partenheimer.
"President Trump's coronavirus guidelines for America" was emblazoned on one side of the postcard in uppercase letters. The other side of the card included social distancing recommendations, encouraging Americans to avoid restaurants and bars, forgo discretionary travel and cancel social gatherings with more than 10 people.at the time from some people who said he politicized the distribution of public health information.
The White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not respond to a request for comment. The Postal Service faces financial troubles, having lost money every year for at least a decade. In the 2019 fiscal year, the Postal Service recorded $71 billion in revenue and more than $80 billion in expenses, or a roughly $9 billion loss.
Almost all of the agency's funding comes from charging for mail, according to a May 2020 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. But mail volumes have decreased while expenses have increased. The agency also faces a large unfunded pension liability and an aging fleet of vehicles. USPS said last year 144,000 of its vehicles were over
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