A New Slogan for the Postal Service: ‘Just Say No!’

The Postmaster General didn’t just tell major customers this week that the U.S. Postal Service is a business and not a government agency. He followed up with a move right out of the corporate playbook—announcing plans to stiff a major creditor. Pat Donahoe’s revelations at the National Postal Forum about what the Postal Service planned to do got most of the media attention. But at least as significant was what he said about what the Postal Service will not do.

It won’t offer banking services. It won’t sell cell phones. And it might not make a controversial payment to the federal