President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to six people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals.
The board is planning to fight Trump’s order, three of those people told The Washington Post. In an emergency meeting Thursday, the board retained outside counsel and gave instructions to sue the White House if the president were to remove members of the board or attempt to alter the agency’s independent status. Trump’s order to place the Commerce Department in charge of the Postal Service would probably violate federal law, according to postal experts.
Too much management for the amount of people to be managed. Trimming some fat would be a good thing.
Looks like I’m going to get to see what it feels like to miss my boss.
We work our buts off, not much waste here. The only thing that can and should be canceled is the forwarding system. Total waste and the source of customer complaints when they get previous owners mail and then we need another supervisor to answer their complaint. It should be if it is your address, it is your mail. Want to send it back? Put new postage on it and we will send back.
Cannot end forwarding like that or companies will big time stop sending first class mail. Confidential docs, financial docs, legal docs, going into the hands of subsequent residents would be opening up everyone who moves to loss of privacy, fraud, and identity theft.
You know people can take some personal responsibility and change their address with all important senders when they move. I moved and never used your forwarding system.
Bring in DOGE!!