Who's going to be left holding the $400 billion bag? That's the ultimate question that undergirds the debate over the future of the post office. Why it matters: The U.S. Postal Service suffers under a system of pension obligations that is seen at no private company and in no other government department.

Local post office union members protested Sunday over allegedly unsafe working conditions in Fredonia on Nov. 30. The grassroots reform movement Build a Fighting, on behalf of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC),

President Donald Trump on Friday said he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would be an executive branch takeover of the agency, which has operated as an independent entity since 1970.

On Monday, postal workers in DC gathered to protest against President Trump’s plan to take over control of the U.S. Postal Service and put it under the Commerce Department, holding signs of “Fight Like Hell” and chanting “hell no.