| Dear -- As photos of padlocked public mailboxes and trucks overflowing with mail flood the internet, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi called back Congress to stop Trump from destroying the U.S. Postal Service. We're launching a social media campaign to keep the pressure on. Will you donate $5 to help save the post office? Dear, Donald Trump is destroying one of the country's oldest and most essential institutions -- the US Postal Service -- all to suppress the vote and prevent people from voting by mail. Trump literally just admitted on Fox News that he was refusing to fund the post office in order to stop the delivery of vote-at-home ballots. Now the mega donor Trump installed as postmaster general is firing career postal executives, canceling overtime, and freezing all hiring to make sure that the mail doesn't run on time.(1) Trump's interference with the US Postal Service could cause millions of ballots to go undelivered and uncounted, especially in California, where 20 million ballots are about to be mailed to voters. We're collecting signatures and helping to fuel the uproar over our broken mail system to drive Congress to take action now. Can we count on you to donate $5 to help save the post office? If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: It's like something out of a dystopian novel. In Oregon, there are reports of public mailboxes being removed from street corners, and in several states, sorting machines are being dismantled.(2) Elderly patients are waiting weeks for prescriptions to arrive. Letters are left behind at facilities for days. Paychecks are delayed.(3) Due to a Bush-era law, the US Postal Service had come to rely heavily on overtime. More than 1 in 5 pieces of mail was delivered outside regular hours. Now, with the postmaster general's order to stop all overtime and freeze any new hires, that mail can’t be delivered at all.(4) And the entire point is to stop people from exercising their right to vote during the pandemic. Trump told Fox News that he’s blocking funding that would keep the post office working -- “you can’t have universal mail-in voting because [the post office is] not equipped to have it.”(5) This is a nightmare for democracy, but instead of fixing it, Congress is taking a vacation. Our representatives need to get back to work and stop the assault on the post office. We're calling on Congress to save the US Postal Service immediately. Will you donate? Yours in the fight for our democracy, Jay, along with Angela, Anne, Brian, Caitlin, Deepthi, Gabby, Irene, Lindsay, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) Footnotes:  |
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