The more things change at the U.S. Postal Service, the more that they stay the same, unfortunately. The volume of mail moving through the system continues to drop, yet the size of the workforce, thanks to a bad decision by former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to add full-time employees, has ballooned.

During his tenure, DeJoy never seemed to grasp the fundamental concept that more people delivering less mail won’t make the postal service profitable. Nonetheless, it’s a program he pursued through his much-maligned and now-discredited Delivering for America plan.

New Postmaster General Dave Steiner has a chance to prove the new boss isn’t, as a late-60s rock-and-roll anthem put it, “same as the old boss.” So far, though, he’s off to a bad start.

While service remains off, the price of stamps and shipping costs have recently been raised. The relationship with one of the U.S.P.S.’s most significant customers, Amazon, is under review and in jeopardy.

The service’s year-end financials didn’t contain a single encouraging note. DeJoy’s campaign to move work done by the private sector in house has proven very........

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