The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

The newspaper, citing six people familiar with the plans, reported that Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service's governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department.

The president is seeking to disband the mail provider’s governing board and put the USPS under the control of the Commerce Department.

President Donald Trump’s long-held idea of privatizing the U.S. Postal Service is about to become a reality. The president is gearing up to dissolve the leadership of the Postal Service and absorb the independent agency into his administration,

President Donald Trump plans to declare the dissolution of the board of the U.S. Postal Service and order its incorporation into the Department of the Treasury, a move widely considered illegal and would set up a court showdown,