| Dear Friend, Did your holiday packages arrive on time? If so, you’re lucky. According to a union representing USPS postal workers, delays this season have been “extreme” due to staffing shortages and logistical issues driven by -- you guessed it -- Trump's postmaster general Louis DeJoy.(1,2) President Biden can stop the ultimate Grinch by nominating two pro-public service members to the USPS Board of Governors who will fire DeJoy, and we have the Senate that can confirm them. This can't end up being another one of those problems that gets buried by the media -- we need to keep the call public and in the spotlight. Will you donate to Courage California and help save the post office?
It’s not just delays that are plaguing the post office -- the agency is working with 31,000 fewer employees than this time last year.(3) And yet prices have gone up nearly 20% in 2022.(4) The postal delays aren’t a sign of a broken system. It’s working exactly as intended in DeJoy's plan. A report by Congress shows that DeJoy has total authority to continue to short-staff the agency and hike prices at the same time.(5) And DeJoy has been clear since Trump appointed him that he wants to dismantle the USPS. The solution is clear: Fire DeJoy. The USPS is an essential public service that doesn’t just deliver Christmas presents. People in rural and impoverished areas depend on the agency for prescriptions, paychecks, and social security payments. We can’t let Louis DeJoy take the USPS down. President Biden has shown in the past several months that he is willing to listen to the public about nominations. We have the opportunity to place two public agency advocates on the USPS Board of Governors, and we have the majority necessary in the Senate to fire Louis DeJoy. Courage California needs to leverage our 1.4 million membership, social media reach, and partnerships to push as many calls as possible to the White House, telling President Biden to act now. Will you help?
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