Dear Friend,

Senator Bernie Sanders has called on President Joe Biden to demand that Louis DeJoy leave the U.S. Postal Service.(1)

Sanders' call has joined the chorus of a number of public service advocates, including Representative Katie Porter, to stop DeJoy from destroying the mail. Although President Biden has named two nominees to the U.S. Postal Service's governance board -- the body that has the power to fire DeJoy -- the Senate has dragged its feet on holding the confirmation hearings.(2)

We have to sound the alarm as Congress returns to Washington, D.C., to let the Senate know just how much we want them to stand up for one of the country’s oldest services. The time is NOW to ramp up the pressure for the Senate to stop the worst postmaster general in U.S. history.

Will you rush a donation of $5 to Courage California to help power our campaign to stop DeJoy and save the U.S. Postal Service?

Since DeJoy has taken the reins at the U.S. Postal Service, he’s been hell-bent on destroying one of our nation’s most cherished public services.

DeJoy, a big-time Trump donor, has:

• Tried to sabotage the 2020 election. In the midst of the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, when mail-in voting was set to be a key way for Americans to cast their ballots, DeJoy decommissioned more than 600 mail sorting machines across the country, in an attempt to suppress our votes.(3)
• Slowed down mail delivery times. In March of this year, he started pushing a 10-year “reorganization” plan that would slow down delivery times. Seniors depend on the postal service to deliver their Social Security checks, and veterans receive lifesaving medications through the USPS. We simply can’t afford delays.(4)
• Hiked postal prices. DeJoy’s U.S. Postal Service raised prices over the fall on everything from stamps to flat mail. And if DeJoy remains in charge, we should be prepared for mail prices to keep rising.(5)
• Committed wage theft against postal workers. A new exposé revealed that while many mail carriers are working overtime to help deliver during the holiday rush, carriers are reporting that the overtime isn't showing up in their checks -- and, in fact, thousands of managers have been caught illegally changing time cards under budget pressure from above.(6)

The USPS governance board has the ability to stop DeJoy. However, only one of these nominees is a stalwart defender of public services -- the other one is a business executive.

The Democrat-controlled Senate can't let these nominees languish, or worse, sail through without assurances that DeJoy will be stopped. Our senators must hold hearings immediately to hold the nominees' feet to the fire and make them promise to return the mail to the dependable public service it was meant to be. We need your help to make that happen.

Will you chip in $5 today to fuel the fight to stop DeJoy?

Yours in the fight for our mail,

Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Caitlin, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team) 

Footnotes:
1. https://www.benningtonbanner.com/business/sanders-calls-for-postmaster-general-to-go/article_dcbfdde4-6755-11ec-9f20-b7e6ed6ac8b7.html
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/19/usps-biden-bloom-dejoy/
3. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/louis-dejoy-usps/
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/01/usps-slowdown-prices-faq/
5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/01/usps-slowdown-prices-faq/
6. https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/workers-rights/cheated-at-work/holiday-rush-mail-carriers-paid/