Isms: Views on life in rural America

Potential changes to the United States Postal Service may have a profound effect on rural communities, newspapers and businesses. President Trump may take control of USPS this week and disband the agency’s governing board.

If the plans go through, USPS is slated to become part of the Commerce Department.

When the postal service was founded in 1775, it wasn’t a for-profit model. By the mid-1960s, the service needed revamping. Then-President Nixon agreed, noting “Our present postal system is obsolete; it has been broken down; it is not what it ought to be for a nation of 200 million people ... A...