President-elect Trump could resurrect his first-term goal to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service, which would influence how e-commerce giants operate, impact hundreds of thousands of government jobs and potentially undercut reliable delivery to more remote areas, Axios’ Natalie Daher posts. America’s mail carrier is the second most-beloved federal agency behind the National Park Service, polling shows. Like many industries, the rise of the internet has hurt its bottom line – and its leadership has failed to reverse that financial trend in recent years, the author notes. Trump is said to have talked with his commerce secretary pick Howard Lutnick at Mar-a-Lago about his interest in overhauling the agency. He reportedly said the government shouldn’t subsidize the mail agency given its recurring losses.
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