It's Time to Expand, Modernize, and Invest in the Postal Service
The USPS is a Vital Lifeline Under Attack by Billionaires who Want to Privatize, Deregulate, and Outsource Mail Service
Sabotaging public services is not the mark of a country that’s doing well.
Innovating, expanding, and modernizing them is. And we’re perfectly capable of doing that with the Postal Service.
Mail delivery isn’t some nice-to-have part of American life – it’s an essential public service that millions rely on
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For rural folks especially, we need the USPS in order to deliver medications, to vote, to get connected to other government services, or just stay connected to friends and family. It’s the place that will deliver your mail no matter how “middle of nowhere” you are.
Small businesses need an affordable and reliable USPS to ship goods, order supplies, reach new customers outside of their immediate area, and expand their business.
With fewer local pharmacies around these days, a lot of rural folks – especially veterans and older Americans – receive all of their medications and medical supplies through USPS.
Plus, the Postal Service is a source of good-paying jobs with benefits for workers without college degrees. USPS helps raise the wage and standard of living everywhere they operate.
Trump and Musk want to privatize, deregulate, and outsource mail service, because that’s what’s best for their bottom line, not ours.
The push for privatization won’t bring better or cheaper services to more people, it will hollow out an American institution and leave consumers with higher prices, unreliability, and denial of service as soon as it doesn't make financial sense to deliver mail to your rural community.
Let’s expand, let’s modernize, and let’s invest in a Postal Service that works for all of us.
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A few years ago, there was a movement afoot to expand PO services to include basic banking. This would have afforded banking services to folks in rural areas where they are not otherwise available. Seems to have died on the vine.