WaPo: FedEx Executive To Be Named USPS Postmaster

The Washington Post reports:

President Donald Trump and the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board are expected to name FedEx board member and former Waste Management CEO David Steiner as the nation’s next postmaster general, helping solidify the White House’s control over the historically independent mail service. Steiner replaces Louis DeJoy, whom Trump forced out of the role in March amid the mail chief’s clashes with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service and congressional dissatisfaction with the agency’s performance and finances.

“The apparent choice of a postmaster general that comes directly from service on the board of directors of FedEx, one of the Postal Service’s primary competitors, presents a clear conflict of interest,” Brian Renfroe, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said. “This is an unmistakable push to hand business over to private shippers. Letter carriers and the over 300 million people we serve every day recognize this attempt at a hostile takeover of a beloved American institution for what it is, privatization-by-proxy.”

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Major conflict of interest.

Here’s Ranking Member @GerryConnolly‘s statement on reports that President Trump and the @USPS governing board will name FedEx board member David Steiner as the next postmaster general: https://t.co/KetZK59VS3 pic.twitter.com/5EJ4pb2ZNb

— Oversight Committee Democrats (@OversightDems) May 7, 2025