Dear MoveOn member,
Mail carriers are essential workers who are risking their lives to deliver letters, food, and medicine to over 135 million households during the coronavirus pandemic—but instead of supporting them, Donald Trump wants all of them to lose their jobs.
Trump has repeatedly refused to include desperately needed aid to the postal service in any relief bills, and he even threatened to veto the first stimulus bill and withhold money from American workers and small businesses if even a cent was directed to the postal service.
We won't let them get away with it—which is why more than 365,000 MoveOn members have signed a petition to save the post office.
We need to show postal workers we stand with them—and publicly proclaim our commitment to save the post office. That's why we've just printed a big batch of "We <3 Mail Carriers" stickers and are giving them away for FREE while supplies last.
Trump's reasoning is nothing short of vindictive: He hates the postal service because they deliver packages for Amazon, whose owner, Jeff Bezos, also owns The Washington Post, a newspaper that isn't afraid to report the facts and challenge the Trump administration when necessary. And it's long been part of the right-wing Republican agenda to privatize the USPS.
And so, Trump and his Republican loyalists want to bankrupt the postal service, cause nearly 600,000 workers—nearly 40% of whom are workers of color—to lose their jobs, rip reliable mail delivery from vast swaths of the country, and, as if all that wasn't bad enough, ensure that there is no large scale vote-by-mail campaign this November.
Thanks for all you do.
–Kelly, Jenn, David, Oscar, and the rest of the team
P.S. We've also printed special envelopes to mail the stickers, so postal workers will know we are standing with them during these uncertain times. Take a look:
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