Adrift for 19 Months: The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors is a Ghost Ship

If you want to understand why the U.S. Postal Service seems so dysfunctional, look no further than its governing board.

If you can find it.

The USPS Board of Governors is a ghost ship (our latest Publishing Word of the Day), set adrift 19 months ago when its vacancies outnumbered its members. Now it's down to three members — the Postmaster General, the Deputy Postmaster General, and a former Congressman — and eight vacancies.