Secret Office, at The General Post-Office
Welcome to John Potter’s world. He’s the nation’s postmaster general. Yes, that’s right: for the last nine years, he has run the United States Postal Service, which, since 1970, when it stopped being a government department and started becoming self-sufficient, has been the oddest of ducks.
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Are you suggesting that the goal is to privatize the postal service?
In one sense, UPS, Fed Ex and a series of other businesses combined with significant outsourcing to government contractors (such as DynCorp) have been privitizing portions of the Post Office business for years. That will clearly continue. I anticipate a serious effort to continue to cut and drain the Post Office infrastructure until it can finally be privatized or shut down.
The answer is yes — in a Slow Burn scenario it will happen gradually.