New U.S. Postal Service head says he doesn't believe in privatizing the mail agency

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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Like all the others that get nominated, they are expert liars.

[Irish_Dem]

1. He is either lying or has figured a way to scam the post office without privatizing.

[Shipwack]

2. Definitely lying.

He’s had four months to divest, and he still hasn’t done it yet?

Not that it matters. I don’t think Trump has even bothered to pretend to divest this time around, and no one cares (possibly because it’s the least of his crimes now…)

[rickford66]

3. The USPS can never be replaced.

What private corporation would stop by my rural home, six days a week not just drop off mail, but also to see if I have any out going mail. My mail man/woman also delivers packages from other delivery companies and occasionally on Sunday.

[Bengus81]

5. Yep...would FedX or UPS deliver letters to my brother in Hawaii for 73 cents? Never...........

[snot]

7. Exactly! I've done some back-of-envelope math, and

if you compare the number of USPS and UPS employees and look at where they currently deliver, the USPS is much more efficient, serving more destinations with fewer employees.

[malthaussen]

4. Since he says so, it must be a lie. n/t

[Bengus81]

6. Simple...It Trump doesn't fire him then it's a 100% LIE. If he's fired soon then yeah,

he wanted the USPS to remain a part of the Government for all time and never be privatized.

[Linda ladeewolf]

8. Once he's appointed trump can't fire him.

Remember Biden couldn’t fire Dejoy. Trump can’t fire him now, it will take the board to remove him. I’m hoping he lied to trump.