John,
Donald Trump spent the entire year trying to undermine the Postal Service. He called it a “tremendous loser,” attacked its funding, pushed service slowdowns, and floated plans to place it under the Commerce Department to weaken it and move toward privatization.
Trump did not succeed in breaking the workers. While the Postal Service is under constant political attack, postal workers keep showing up to do their jobs. Even when routes grew longer, and staffing was cut while volumes surged, the work still got done.
The holiday season brings all of this to a peak. Postal workers move more than 15 billion pieces of mail and packages every year, including over 400 million packages in a single week. Trump’s attacks make that work harder while expectations only increase, especially during the busiest weeks of the year.
Right now, we can answer Trump’s narrative directly. We are collecting messages of thanks and solidarity and delivering them straight to postal workers across the country, including those working routes, sorting centers, distribution hubs, and local post offices.
Send a message directly to postal workers to show appreciation for their work and support for the people who keep this public service alive.
Postal jobs have long been a foundation of unionized, middle-class work and a critical source of stability for Black workers and other workers of color.
The rights that protect postal workers today exist because workers fought for them, including during the 1970 postal workers’ strike that forced recognition of collective bargaining and basic labor protections. Attacks on the USPS land directly on those workers and the communities they support.
The Postal Service is legally required to reach every address, not just profitable ones, and postal workers are the reason that promise holds. They deliver ballots, legal notices, government communications, and essential information that allow people to participate fully in civic life. When the USPS is weakened, democracy becomes less accessible, less reliable, and less fair.
Trump continues to try to convince the country that the Postal Service is failing. Postal workers prove him wrong every day. Sending a message of thanks is a way to stand with the people who keep a public service alive while it is under deliberate attack.
Make sure postal workers hear directly from people who reject Trump’s attacks and value the work that keeps communities connected.
Let’s make sure the message postal workers receive this season is louder than Trump’s.
- DFA AF Team
