For decades, right-wing forces have fantasized about privatizing the United States Postal Service.

They have jammed through service cuts, unnecessary costs, and unqualified leaders — all to make the American people frustrated enough that we accept an eventual corporate takeover of the USPS.

And with Donald Trump back in the White House, the threat of Postal Service privatization is greater than ever.

If we let Trump and MAGA privatize the USPS:

• The American people would lose an essential service they have been able to rely on for generation after generation.

• Cost increases and service disruptions could be devastating for senior citizens, who rely on the mail for, among other things, critical medicines.

• There could be mass closures of post offices — which are vital community hubs — all across the country.

• Untold numbers of postal workers — 630,000 total, including 73,000 veterans — could lose their jobs.

• Millions of Americans — especially in rural and Indigenous communities — could see their service reduced or eliminated altogether.

• The Post Office’s critical role in our democracy — with reliable delivery of registration materials and mail-in ballots — could be undermined or even manipulated for the benefit of particular parties and candidates.

The United States Constitution clearly gives Congress, not the president, authority over the USPS.

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate — with co-sponsors like Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) and Brian Fitzpatrick (Republican, Pennsylvania), along with Senators like Mark Warner (Democrat, Virginia) and Lisa Murkowski (Republican, Alaska) — to prevent the Postal Service from being privatized.

To every representative and senator in Congress:

Keeping the United States Postal Service public should be nonpartisan and a no-brainer. To support privatizing the USPS would be to admit that you are in the pocket of corporate donors and that you don’t really care about the needs of your actual constituents. We urge you to pass legislation that will prevent the Postal Service from being privatized.

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