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Trump and Biden signal emerging fight over future of Postal Service

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Privatizing the Postal Service would affect hundreds of thousands of jobs and risk upending a system that, founded in 1775 , is older than the U.S. itself.

Any effort to privatize the agency would require approval from its Board of Governors , made up of 11 members and led by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy , whom Trump appointed during his first term in office.