Originally published at: US Postal Service belongs under executive branch - FreightWaves
President Trump’s instinct to place the U.S. Postal Service under the direct control of the White House is correct and would allow the agency to be reformed without interference from oversight bodies that have outlived their usefulness, says commentator Satish Jindel.
Hi Satish, not surprisingly, you are making yet another well reasoned argument on a key industry development. You are also uncannily accurate in your past predictions.
That said, what do you forecast will actually happen in the real world all things considered?
Also, what if anything do you make of the new PMG being a FedEx board member?
The post will not function as we know it if it’s ran as a PnL center. We don’t run fire stations or police departments like businesses, and it benefits US citizens as such. Changing the DNA of how we operate gov’t provided services, unless corruption or service is at risk, won’t benefit anyone besides the for-profit businesses who will absorb the remains.
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Which is why Trump, Musk, DOGE, and Steiner have no business anywhere near USPS. Because of the Universal Service Obligation, it has to be run as a service. Ignoring the obligation or doing away with it will destroy the post office as it was intended to function.
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Sounds like something out of a dictatorship. Giving control of the people that handle mail in ballots to the president.
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The Department of the Post office with the executive branch changed to the postal service in the 80’s under Congress still with the board of directors, but financed differently. Did my career there and came in while the Vietnam Veterans still held jobs their. We used those small jeeps made by the big 3 car companies. They don’t answer to trump but Congress with the postal Union’s if changes are needed. What orange man did in 2017 though was fire the woman Post Master General and place a donner in that position who knew nothing about mail and slowed things down for the wannabe king by dismantling billion dollars worth of fast sorting machines.
Couldn’t the parcel companies put up their own boxes for delivery, just like newspapers have done for many decades? The answer is yes. Some people already do it. Exclusive use of the mailbox is a poor excuse. Might as well blame the newspaper too. And what happens when the mail carrier has medication to deliver but the mailbox is full of UPS parcels?
The Federal Gov’t provides billions in annual subsides for rural internet.