The Post Office isn’t failing. It’s being deliberately dismantled, piece by piece, to hand to the highest bidder.

The Postmaster General has warned that the USPS could run out of cash as soon as next February, leading to the “end of the Postal Service as we know it” if Congress fails to act.

What may appear to be mismanagement is actually a coordinated strategy: Starve a public institution of resources, let it collapse, then sell the mess to private interests at a discount.

This is the Project 2025 playbook applied to your mailbox.

Trump’s first administration laid the groundwork — proposing to break up and sell off the Post Office’s profitable components, while installing loyalists to obstruct reform from within. Project 2025 then made the ultimate goal explicit: full privatization and the elimination of universal service obligations.

Billionaires don’t care about a Post Office that serves everyone equally. They want to own a service that directs its profits into their own shares and shareholders. The plot to privatize the Post Office is part of a sweeping effort to transfer public infrastructure into private hands, concentrating the control of basic communications and services among a ruling class.

The Postal Service Reform Act was a step forward passed with bipartisan support.

It ended the requirement to pre-fund retiree health benefits decades in advance, but it wasn’t enough. The USPS remains shackled by pricing restrictions, a prohibition on new revenue-generating services, and an outdated borrowing authority that hasn’t been adjusted for inflation since 1992.

Now, Congress must finish what it started, and allow the USPS to manage its own benefit, retirement, and pension funds; update its borrowing authority to reflect modern economic reality; and repeal the law that blocks it from expanding into new revenue-generating services. These tools are needed for the USPS to survive; withholding them leads to intentional collapse.

With privatized mail delivery, and FedEx and UPS setting prices, rural communities could be deemed unprofitable and get cut off or charged exorbitant surcharges. The delivery of medicines and ballots to remote areas could be compromised — or discontinued altogether.

The Postal Service was never meant to generate profit for shareholders. It was built to serve as a lifeline for every American regardless of geography, income, or political affiliation. Public institutions exist to serve everyone, not to be sold off to the few.