DeJoy’s efforts, which actually brought USPS to near-breakeven status after $90 billion of losses over two decades, apparently proved insufficiently radical for Trump. He stepped down in March of this year, amid speculation that he was pushed out by the President for not moving quickly enough to dismantle the agency.
“Make no mistake, the postmaster general was forced out by a White House intent on breaking up and selling off the public United States Postal Service,” Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union, said at the time. “Statements by President Trump last month and recent statements from his billionaire advisor Elon Musk made it clear that the White House has been planning for a hostile takeover of the USPS.”
Last December, shortly before taking office to launch his second administration, Trump once more raised the possibility of a privatized USPS, calling the idea something “we’re looking at.”
