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cash crunch
Logistics US Postal Service Averts Immediate Shutdown but Faces Liquidity Crisis by 2031, Warns Postmaster General
The U.S. Postal Service has avoided a 2027 shutdown through deferrals, but Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate panel that the agency is nearly $31 billion in debt with only $8.9 billion cash on hand. Mail volume has halved since 2000, while addresses grow by 1 million annually. Steiner presented a stark choice: allow USPS to operate independently or subsidize universal service to support a $2 trillion mailing industry.
SpiceJet's cash crunch deepens: pilots unpaid since March, airline seeks emergency loan
SpiceJet pilots and employees have not received salaries since March, according to internal messages reviewed by Reuters. The airline is seeking an emergency loan under India's Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme to stabilise operations, while citing the Middle East crisis as a factor affecting cash flows and fuel costs.