postal六级 /'pәustl/

The u.s. Postal Service (USPS) continues to bleed red ink.

美国邮政服务（USPS）继续亏损。

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer - Congress - insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

从邮政工会到贺卡制造商的各种利益集团，都对美国邮政服务局的最终监管者——国会——施加着出于自身利益的压力，坚持要求无论邮政服务发生什么变化，他们所依赖的现状某些方面必须得到保护。

And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer - Congress - insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected.

从邮政工会到贺卡制造商的各种利益集团，都对美国邮政服务局的最终监管者——国会——施加着出于自身利益的压力，坚持要求无论邮政服务发生什么变化，他们所依赖的现状某些方面必须得到保护。

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

这就是为什么近年来多次改革立法尝试都失败了，导致邮政服务只能通过推迟关键的现代化进程来支付账单。

Now comes word that everyone involved - Democrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the system's heaviest users - has finally agreed on a plan to fix the system.

现在有消息称，所有相关方——民主党人、共和党人、邮政服务局、工会以及该系统的最大用户——终于达成了一项修复该系统的计划。