Scoop News: President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States Postmaster General. David Steiner’s appointment as head of the public service agency is a signal that Trump is going to take another stab at something he tried and failed to do during his first term: privatise the postal service.

n February 2025, when Trump said the USPS is a “tremendous loser for this country” and that he’s considering merging it with the Department of Commerce, he wasn’t echoing a random claim that came up in conversation with his golf caddy. During his first term, Trump appointed a task force to study the postal service, which concluded the current system was “unsustainable,” and recommended privatisation in line with the president’s desire.

Right-wing forces have long had their sights on the postal service—as they have on public education, libraries, Social Security, Medicare, and just about any publicly funded service—and have carried out an effective propaganda campaign against USPS’s financial viability to justify gutting it.

For example, the Heritage Foundation—the morally bankrupt trafficker of market fundamentalism and peddler of the Project 2025 blueprint for democratic destruction—has claimed for years that the nation no longer needs a postal service. In 2024, it asked if Americans still needed their post office. In 2013, it wondered if the postal service had a future, and in 2010, it contended that postal workers were paid too much.

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