With the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) careening to financial insolvency, mail delivery taking far longer than it did in the 1970’s, and postal rate increases for the past four years outpacing the worst inflation in four decades, it is time for radical, holistic change.
The Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can be the catalyst for this which will be highly visible and beneficial to the public. As such, it will also spur reform at other government agencies.
While President-elect Trump said on December 16 that privatization of USPS is “not the worst idea I’ve ever heard,” a better approach is to shrink USPS to its core functions, especially delivering mail.
