Postal Chief’s Delay on Retirement Signals Outside Candidates

The postponement of U.S. Postal Service chief Megan Brennan‘s planned retirement may mean the service is considering an outsider to be the next postmaster general, a prospect that alarms some union leaders.

“If they were searching inside the Postal Service, they would be done already,” said Paul Hogrogian, president of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, which represents about 47,000 USPS workers. When Patrick Donahoe, the postmaster general before Brennan, stepped down, he immediately announced that Brennan—like Donahoe, a longtime USPS employee who rose through the ranks—would be replacing him. The USPS said Jan. 6 that Brennan would be ...