US Postal Service faces murky future as Trump mulls dismantling institution

Resistance to any proposals remains speculative until administration lays out its plan for the federal agency

After the postmaster general, Louis Dejoy, a former Trump fundraiser and logistics executive appointed during the president's first term, announced last month that he was stepping down, defenders of the US Postal Service (USPS) concerned that the 249-year-old institution could soon experience the slice and slash of Elon Musk's department of government efficiency" scimitar have expressed alarm.

Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to dissolve USPS's bipartisan board of governors and place the agency under the control of the commerce department secretary, Howard Lutnick, the Washington Post recently reported.