Edward Helmore at The Guardian reports resistance to any proposals regarding the future of the United States Postal Service (USPS) remains speculative until the Trump Administration lays out its plan for the Federal Agency. After 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 USPS concerned the 249-year-old institution could soon experience the slice and slash of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) scimitar have expressed alarm. President Trump is reportedly preparing to dissolve USPS’s bipartisan Board of Governors and place the agency under the control of Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick, The Washington Post recently reported. Trump has made no secret of his desire to reform the USPS, once calling it Amazon’s “delivery boy” - but it employs 637,000 people and 91% of Americans view it favorably, according to a Pew Research survey taken when USPS was perhaps the most visible Federal Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic and came close to running out of cash - entirely. But until the Administration lays out its plan for the institution, resistance to any proposals remains speculative. “In a moment when Public Servants are under severe attack, Postal Workers and the people we serve in every State and every Congressional District, are prepared to defend our critical public service,” American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein said.

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