Claim: The Postal Service's financial losses result from "a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts."
Fact-check: Ad from Save America's Postal Service claims rule from Congress is causing USPS's financial problems
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Angie Drobnic Holan
Date published: 2011-09-29T00:00:00