The Postal Service Reform Act passed, but the biggest risk to the USPS is still in charge. Write to Biden!

Add your voice. Time is critical!

Email Joe here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (Here’s our sample letter but we’re wordy as hell. One line or a single paragraph is just as good. Talk about why the USPS is important to you and yours. If you have personal or family experience with the USPS, or a great postal carrier story, be sure to share it.)

Dear Joe,

Thank you for signing the Postal Service Reform Act in 2022. It relieves the USPS of the onerous pre-funding of retiree health benefits, and permits our post offices to provide needed services such as banking, bus and subway passes, WiFi access, checking EBT cards, grocery delivery, expansion of senior checks, and even charging stations for electric vehicles.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy helped Senator Schumer push the bill through Congress. But he was brought in by the Trump administration to get the USPS ready for privatization. Removal of the pre-funding requirement makes for an even more attractive target and Rep. Tlaib and others have noted that “DeJoy’s 10-year plan appears to put the USPS on a fast track towards privatization, job cuts, negatively impacted service operations, and a culture of general dysfunction at one of our country’s bedrock institutions.”

Other countries have fallen for privatizing. Great Britain regrets selling off their 500-year old Royal Mail, (https://weownit.org.uk/privatisation) Only 20% of Germany’s postal carriers still have full-time jobs, while the rest struggle with “mini-jobs”, similar to the privatized system in the Netherlands. New Zealand’s private mail companies cherry-picked easy routes, leaving the depleted national service to subsidize the rest. The winners – private shareholders of former public monopolies, post managers and large customers. The losers – private households, especially in rural areas, and postal workers struggling with precarious and low-waged work in what was once a source of stable and decent jobs.

Since we don’t know what will happen in November, we’re asking you to prepare for every contingency. Fill the two empty seats on the USPS Board of Governors with forward-thinking public servants who will remove DeJoy and guarantee that our constitutionally-created PUBLIC postal service continues as our most trusted government service, and retains its central place in our communities.