Trump team considers trying to replace postmaster general

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : DeJoy, a major Trump donor before he was hired in 2020, was selected during Trump's first administration by a postal board composed entirely of Trump appointees.
54% : Trump declared in December that he was "looking at" taking the massive federal agency private, and some of the Postal Service's largest customers and vendors have begun to prepare for much of the agency's mail- and package-handling work to be outsourced to the private sector.
54% : DeJoy also met with Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in December.
50% : Among sitting members, three are Republicans, and two of those are Trump appointees.
45% : The board, then made up solely of Trump appointees, hired DeJoy in June 2020, as the Postal Service fought to survive pandemic-related financial distress and delivery woes.
42% : Trump will enter the White House with broad leverage to transform the Postal Service -- leverage he may need to use to push DeJoy out.
32% : President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is vetting candidates to replace Postmaster General Louis DeJoy even though Trump won't have direct authority to fire him, according to four people familiar with the conversations, an early signal of the incoming administration's plans to exert control over -- or privatize -- the nation's mail service.
24% : Ahead of the 2020 election, Trump said the Postal Service was incapable of facilitating mail-in voting because the agency could not access emergency funding that he was blocking.
23% : As president, Donald Trump would lack the authority to fire Louis DeJoy and appoint a replacement but has expressed openness to overhauling the mail agency.
21% : Trump feuded with the nation's mail carrier as president in 2019, trying to force it to hand over key operations -- including rate-setting, personnel decisions, labor relations and managing relationships with its largest clients -- to the Treasury Department.
20% : Trump's opinion of DeJoy has suffered since the postmaster general led the agency to successfully facilitate mail-in voting, including in the 2020 election that Trump lost, said the people, who include individuals who have spoken with industry figures the incoming administration is vetting.

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