The Postal Service continues to rate favorably despite recent delivery backlogs and President Trump’s ongoing attacks on mail voting
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was brought on, in part, to use his extensive private-sector experience to make the nation’s venerable mail service more efficient.
But the net effect of DeJoy’s operational changes has been a slowdown in the pace of mail delivery. It may be no surprise, then, that a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll showed that Americans, by a more than 2-to-1 margin, reject the notion that the U.S. Postal Service should be “run like a business,” to use a phrase prevalent in conservative policymaking circles.
Instead, most said the USPS should be run as a “public service,” even if doing so would cost the government money. Continue reading.