Trump Holds Postal Service Hostage to Settle Amazon Score
The president is more interested in wielding a cudgel than preserving a vital service.
Dangerous and crucial work.
Photographer: Mike Lawrie/Getty Images
Your neighborhood mail carrier and their co-workers at your local post office are doing dangerous work these days. The coronavirus has killed 44 of the U.S. Postal Service’s 630,000 workers and an additional 1,219 have tested positive.
And the White House is threatening to kill the Postal Service itself unless it gets greater control over its operations and its future. If this was any other administration this might be written off as the federal government using a crisis to jockey for position and streamline a struggling enterprise long overdue for change. But this isn’t any other White House.