News Summary

• USPS was founded as the U.S. Post Office Department on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress.
• The agency's semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. Saturday's celebration comes months after sources said President Trump was mulling folding the USPS into the Commerce Department.
• Mr. Trump also said in December that his upcoming administration was "looking into" potentially privatizing the postal service.