[dinodino]

I find it rather difficult to believe that any middle managers in the Federal Government are capable of running businesses, and as for college degrees, wouldn’t those be required as baseline?

[muawiyah]

There are many managers in the government who have, in fact, come from the private sector where they ran businesses.

The typical Postmaster General is usually a businessman ~ my favorite was Bobby Tisch ~ gave me more pay raises than I can count. Klassen wasn't too bad in that regard either. Sometimes you have a career government employee ~ our best Postmaster General in a century was Bill Bolger.

These folks all have subordinates, and many of them come from business and industry, some from the government, some from inside USPS ~ and all the way down.

My immediate boss for over a decade had been at USPS then went out to IBM and then came back ~ supposed to have given him some fresh ideas.

The average age of entry into a federal government job is 35, not 19 as in the private sector.