Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee on Saturday urged President Trump to abandon plans to reform the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) after he said he was considering a “merger” for the mail service.

“Your reported efforts to dismantle the Postal Service as an independent agency would directly undermine the affordability and reliability of the U.S. postal system," ranking member Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and the panel’s other members wrote in the letter. "We urge you to abandon immediately any plans that would either privatize the Postal Service or undermine the independence of the Postal Service."

The letter from Democrats follows reporting from The Washington Post that Trump was

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