President Donald Trump said he’s looking to change the US Postal service, including giving the Secretary of Commerce authority over what has been an independent organization for more than 50 years. It’s a move that could be a first step towards privatization that could upend how Americans get critical deliveries including online purchases,

In recent years, as it’s sometimes struggled to stay afloat, the Postal Service has fought calls from Trump and others that it be privatized.

The latest government agency that President Donald Trump wants to disrupt is older than America itself. In its 250 years, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered Revolutionary War battle plans, America’s first newspapers,