Trump Considers Merging US Postal Service With Commerce Department

‘We’re losing so much money with the Postal Service, and we don’t want to lose that kind of money,’ Trump said.

A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) post office near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States Postal Service (USPS) could soon be merged with the Department of Commerce.

“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,” he said on Feb. 21, taking questions from the media in the Oval Office. “It‘ll be a form of merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it'll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.”