President Donald Trump may soon attempt to place the U.S. Postal Service under Commerce Department control, a move that could reshape a $1.2 trillion mailing industry employing over 7 million Americans.

The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.

U.S. postal workers were joined by union leaders and fellow workers Monday as they rallied against Trump’s reported plan to place the historically independent Postal Service under control of the secretary of commerce.

The USPS called Buckley “one of the most influential public intellectuals in modern U.S. history” and the man who “defined the conservative movement of the mid-20th century.” The honor comes in the year that would have been Buckley’s 100th birthday.

Trump is reportedly on the verge of issuing an executive order to dissolve the independent leadership of USPS.

Letter follows reports that President Trump intends to fire the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) bipartisan Board of Governors and move USPS into the Department of Commerce ~ WASHINGTON – Today,

Postal workers and labor movement allies gathered in Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s reported plan to seize control of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The proposal, which would absorb the independent agency into the Commerce Department,

Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has slashed government spending and dismantled entire federal agencies and programs, with billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency leading the charge.

When President Donald Trump said that he might try to take over the U.S. Postal Service, he suggested that he could dramatically improve how Americans send and receive mail. The beleaguered institution, Trump insisted last month, would “operate a lot better.”

Elon Musk says both Amtrak and the USPS should be privatized, but experts say services would suffer from it, while rural areas could be cut off entirely.

During a remote appearance at a Morgan Stanley tech conference, he said the government should "privatize everything we possibly can."