When the U.S. Postal Service rang up a $13,500 tab at an Orlando steakhouse, it spared no expense during a five-hour meal that government investigators are calling “abusive” in its extravagance.

The order — charged to government credit cards — included more than $3,000 for drinks, more than $500 for shrimp cocktails and almost $900 for mini crab cakes, according to the Government Accountability Office, the investigate arm of Congress.

And then there’s the steak.

“The better question is probably what they didn’t order,” GAO investigator Gregory Kutz said Wednesday. He counted 81 entrees — including just about every kind of steak — from the 2006 feast at Ruth’s Chris Steak House on Sand Lake Road.

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