Washington | America’s year of pandemic and political mayhem keeps claiming victims. An unexpected one is the US Postal Service.

Its status as one of the nation’s most trusted and revered institutions – with roots dating back to the Second Continental Congress in 1775 – has been smashed and dragged through the mud by a wounded President’s obsession with finding a foil for what may be an electoral defeat in November, and a Congress that turns every issue into a Red versus Blue debacle.