| Friend, Live in a rural area of the country and rely on the mail for important services? Louis DeJoy says you’re out of luck. Trump's postmaster general recently met with several U.S. senators to discuss the lack of service to remote areas, and DeJoy blamed lack of staff and infrastructure -- staff and infrastructure he was responsible for dismantling.(1) DeJoy’s 10-year plan to destroy the USPS in order to privatize it is working, and only grassroots pressure can stop him. Courage California and our coalition of advocacy groups are demanding that the USPS Board of Governors reverse course on DeJoy’s plan.
During the Trump administration, the White House released a recommendation that the USPS be privatized. There was a public uproar that made Trump back off the plan in the media.(2) But Trump then installed Louis DeJoy, who has steadily worked toward making a public USPS unsustainable. In the years since, we’ve seen one of our most treasured institutions fall apart. Mail has slowed and become unreliable, post offices have closed entirely, and prices have gone through the roof but the agency is still underfunded. DeJoy hopes that eventually the public will be so fed up that we agree to make the agency private. We won’t let that happen. DeJoy may be the boss, but he answers to the USPS Board of Governors. And that Board answers to the public. We’ve seen victories in this space before, when the Board of Governors oversaw new USPS electric vehicle contracts after huge public pressure, and now the Board is mostly Biden appointees.(3) We can win this fight.
Yours in the fight for our public services, Irene, along with Annie, Angela, Isidra, Lindsay, Mai, Mai, and Scottie (and the rest of the Courage team) Footnotes:  |
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