The future of the United States Postal Service isn’t really in President Trump’s hands, despite what his critics are saying. The service is hemorrhaging money.

The COVID-19 crisis has imposed demands on the USPS that may be unprecedented. And Congress may eventually need to provide some emergency assistance for it to survive. But its future course will be charted by others. The one person who really counts is Louis Dejoy, the North Carolina businessman whom Trump recently named (and whom the postal Board of Governors unanimously approved) to be the next postmaster general.