President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly weighing a plan to make significant changes to the United States Postal Service. These proposed changes could include privatizing the agency, a course of action that, if pursued, would be a political and legal catastrophe.

Trump has a mandate and the broad goodwill of the people. Republicans have control of both chambers of Congress and a friendly conservative majority on the Supreme Court. The party has big plans to modernize the federal government, end wasteful spending, cut taxes, and end the scourge of illegal immigration.