Claim: Says the U.S. Postal Service has taken no taxpayer aid since 1971, funds operations entirely from the sale of stamps and related products and makes an "operational profit year after year."
Fact-check: Postal service, which operates on sales of stamps, last had profit in 2006 and took last taxpayer aid in 1982
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2013-08-09T00:00:00