"Over the past decade, the rapid growth of the digital economy has created problems for the United States Postal Service.

Patrick Donahoe served as the 73rd United States Postal Service Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer from October 2010 until his retirement in February 2015. He was responsible for the overall operation of the $69 billion annual postal business, which delivers more than 150 billion pieces of mail and packages per year to over 165 million business and residential address.

Donahoe is a 39-year veteran of the USPS, having first entered the service as a clerk in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has testified before various committees in the US Senate and House of Representatives on 12 different occasions over the past 20 years. He is a 1977 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh where he majored in economics. He also graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was a Sloan Fellow."