>They currently have over $335 billion set aside for future pensions, though, so between this position and the forced conservative investment policy...I gotta say, suddenly the USPS is looking like one heck of a good place to get a line-level job if you're worried about a recession.

Correct. Those who bring this up as proof that "Republicans hate the Post Office" or somesuch don't understand (willfully or not) that the 10 years of pain were always intended to be that, 10 years of pain. It's what any business with pension obligations in a secularly declining market ought to be doing; USPS employees are fortunate in that its government masters forced the USPS to do so.