Opinion: Please don’t privatize the U.S. Postal Service

This month, Donald Trump will become our 47th president. Among a number of priorities about which the soon-to-be president has mused publicly — going after undocumented workers, going after Liz Cheney, going after the Panama Canal — one that concerns me, because he might actually do it, is going after the post office.

On Dec. 14, the Washington Post reported that in recent weeks Trump “has expressed a keen interest in privatizing” the U.S. Postal Service. The same reporting noted that people...