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.
Let’s shut down the USPS and give all the hardworking government employees a chance to demonstrate their skills in the private sector...