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The US Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors is preparing to name David Steiner, a current member of FedEx’s Board of Directors, as the next Postmaster General (PMG), according to a report in the Washington Post. The selection is reportedly being made at the behest of Donald Trump.

The move signals a massive escalation of attacks on the post office, especially its privatization, which both Trump and Elon Musk, head of the “Department of Government Efficiency,” (DOGE) support. But privatization would be the culmination of decades of bipartisan attacks, beginning with its demotion from a cabinet level department to an independent, self-funding agency under President Richard Nixon.

The situation urgently requires organized resistance by postal workers and their allies in the working class. As the USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee explained in a statement in March: “This requires new organizations, rank-and-file committees, to mobilize ourselves independently of Trump’s collaborators in the Democrats and the union tops. We must safeguard our own initiative and begin organizing now rather than waiting for ‘permission’ from the top which will never come.”

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[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ok I’m sorry but how is this in any way surprising?

I agree that it’s incredibly shitty and fucked up. But it’s anything but surprising.

Also: fuck you, Biden, for “my hands are tied I can’t get rid of this guy”. I honestly struggle to think of someone who could have prepared us more poorly for fighting off the fascists, on this and so many other levels. THAT will be his legacy: Washington said we had “a Republic, if you can keep it”, and Biden was the one who lost the Republic.