New U.S. Postal Service head says he doesn't believe in privatizing the mail agency [View all]
Source: NPR
July 18, 2025 4:42 PM ET
Trump administration talk of transforming the U.S. Postal Service has set off a flurry of concerns about the future of the federal mail agency. The new leader of USPS is now trying to clear the air.
"I do not believe that the Postal Service should be privatized or that it should become an appropriated part of the federal government," Postmaster General David Steiner said Thursday in his first video message to USPS employees. "I believe in the current structure of the Postal Service as a self-financing, independent entity of the executive branch."
Steiner officially took over the country's mail service Tuesday, about four months after Louis DeJoy stepped down as postmaster general.
A former CEO of Waste Management, Steiner also previously served on the board of FedEx. Asked by NPR how Steiner — who owned shares in FedEx at least as of September 2024, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing — is handling stocks that could present a financial conflict of interest, USPS spokesperson David Walton says in a statement that they "have been or will be resolved, sold, and/or divested as required by law."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/18/nx-s1-5472720/new-usps-postmaster-general-privatization
Like all the others that get nominated, they are expert liars.
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