Friend,

Every day, U.S. Postal Service (USPS) workers are risking their lives to keep us safe while delivering essential supplies like life-saving medications, stimulus checks, and mail-in ballots. The USPS is a crucial lifeline in particular for the most marginalized among us, including seniors, people with disabilities, people without internet service, and people in rural areas.

But the Trump administration is blocking needed emergency funding the USPS needs to stay afloat. With increases in costs and drastic revenue declines due to the pandemic, the Postal Service could run out of money in a few short months. So we’re partnering with postal workers and other allies to save the USPS from Trump. Will you join our call to action?

Sign now: During this pandemic, we must support our essential public U.S. Postal Service!

In the midst of this pandemic, we need affordable, reliable mail delivery more than ever.

Only the USPS is constitutionally required to deliver all mail to all addresses at a flat rate. It’s one of the few institutions that doesn’t discriminate based on people’s zip code, race, or economic circumstances.  

Without the USPS, private shipping corporations like FedEx, UPS, and Amazon would not deliver to rural or remote areas, which would disproportionately hurt indigenous people living on tribal lands. In fact, because sending to remote areas is unprofitable, these corporations often contract with the USPS to accomplish what’s called “last-mile delivery” to rural and indigenous communities.

No wonder the USPS is one of our most-trusted public institutions. It’s also one of America’s strongest unions, which is why the USPS has faced attacks and privatization attempts from Republicans for decades. Now they’re exploiting this pandemic crisis in an attempt to dismantle this essential public good.

And without the USPS, we won’t be able to hold a safe, vote-by-mail election this November. That’s unacceptable. But without our help, the USPS could run out of operating funds in a matter of months. So we need you to act now to show how many people support our public postal service.

Add your name. Together, let’s save the USPS!

Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a former Wall Street head known as the “foreclosure king,” refused to accept a bipartisan Senate proposal to bail out the Postal Service. Finally, he capitulated to a compromise in the CARES Act: a small bailout loan that wouldn’t even cover the USPS payroll for much longer.

But now, Trump is attaching unprecedented stipulations to that loan, demanding that the USPS hand over control to Mnuchin and quadruple shipping prices—which experts warn would kill the Postal Service by putting it at a massive disadvantage to its corporate competitors.  

Meanwhile, the Trump administration hasn’t hesitated to give polluting and tax-dodging industries billions of dollars in bailouts. This includes corporations who’ve literally said they don’t need the money, like a Canadian uranium mining firm that’s a former client of oil-lobbyist-turned-Interior-Secretary David Bernhardt.

Trump is now holding the Postal Service hostage, along with the millions of Americans who rely on it, and its 650,000 employees—half of whom are people of color, and almost 20% of whom are veterans.

And he’s consolidating control: Just last week, Trump named a new head of the Postal Service: Louis DeJoy, a top Trump donor and RNC leader with no postal experience. This Trump crony will be the first postmaster general in decades who didn’t come up through the agency itself. He’s exactly the kind of person who would try to dismantle and privatize our postal service.

That’s why we must act now. Will you join our efforts to help save and protect our postal service?

Sign now: We need urgent and ongoing financial support to the vital USPS during this crisis.

Thank you,

Rashida