Friend --

Our country's founders so strongly believed that a well-funded post office is essential to our democracy that they gave Congress the power to establish "post offices and post roads" in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 7).

They were right.

It's never been more clear how the United States Postal Service binds us together as one nation. It's crucial that we include provisions to support the postal service and its essential workers as we rebuild our economy and make plans for vote-by-mail in the months to come.

Sign your name here to tell the White House and Mitch McConnell to include funding for the postal service in the next stimulus package.

Our postal workers are among the front-line workers getting us through this crisis.

In rural states like Vermont, many seniors and people with disabilities rely on the USPS to get medications and essential goods delivered to their homes. Small business operators around the country rely on the USPS to keep them connected to both their suppliers and their customers. And as states create vote-by-mail policies for elections this summer and fall, voters and state election boards will rely on the USPS to protect our democracy and make our elections safe and secure.

We need our postal service, and we need to keep it reliable and affordable for Americans across the country.

Because it's Congress' constitutional right to establish the postal service, it's also our duty to protect and strengthen it.

Our postal service is too important to risk losing at any time, let alone during a crisis. Please add your name to demand that the White House and Senator McConnell provide emergency funding for the postal service.

Thank you for doing your part to protect the USPS.

Sincerely,

Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator