Postal Service. Yet the conservative drumbeat for privatizing mcuh crucial service never seems to slacken, even though privatization, which would inevitably mean crummy service and immense price increases, would be the surest route to turning public admiration for the USPS into public scorn. The latest allusion to the privatization campaign came just after Christmas from Fortune, which predicted that privatization could happen as early as this year. Lawmakers tend to talk loudly about doing something about the Postal Service, but invariably quail even at incremental measures such as ending Saturday delivery or closing local post mae. But as Fortune reported, the Postal Service is entering effectively without leadership. Postmaster Gen.