Fed accounts allow for rapid stimulus payments directly into citizen deposit accounts, instead of the Rube Goldberg IRS payments dance we’re currently doing. Stimulus payments then become a batch job.
They already do a lot of passport issuance and the like, so probably wouldn’t be too much of a problem to expand if they did it gradually.
That said, they’re currently struggling to even deliver packages or letters under
the new leadership (around the time of the election I had multiple mailed checks go missing permanently, and a letter take a month+ to go within the state where it’s usually 3 days max), so maybe putting our hopes on them to save the economy through a massive new program is not a good idea?
Of course. Current organizational failings do cause fallout and long term damage to retention and motivation of key staff, along with reputational issues leading to difficulty getting new qualified staff.
Definitely not unsolvable - pointing out that if you want the USPS to be a happy, well run organization that can take on a massive expansion in scope, it would take awhile and have to fight against the current inertia. It isn’t a slam dunk right now.
