By creating Post Office financial services, people who have little or no access to banks or other institutions could create a savings account with the Postal Service or avoid payday and other high cost lenders for a short term loan.
The services would also create jobs and increase revenue for the Postal Service, helping keep it solvent to serve it's core purpose, delivering the mail.
This is a win win and it can be done without congressional action.
This makes too much sense to not do it.
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