The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

The newspaper, citing six people familiar with the plans, reported that Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service's governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department.

The Trump administration is planning to fire members of the independent government board that oversees the US Postal Service, a move that could serve as a step toward privatizing the service, according to multiple published reports.