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Save the Post Office. Contact your Senators now! Vote coming.

Mar 7, 2022 | PDA News

In solidarity,
Mike Fox for the PDA National Team

 

Email Your Senators Now To Save The US Postal Service

 

Whether it’s paying bills, getting prescription medicines delivered to your home, receiving your online orders, or sending a note to a far-away loved one, millions of people across America rely on the United States Post Office for getting things done in their everyday lives.

In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the Postal Service like requiring the pre-funding of retiree health benefits 75 years into the future, including for postal workers that haven’t even been born yet!

These costs have drained the postal service of capital, and made it impossible for them to invest in the future. The USPS hasn’t been able to hire enough workers, buy new trucks, or invest in the machines and technology to keep the mail moving fast. Instead, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has used this budget “crisis” to justify harmful service cuts and price increases.

The Postal Service Reform Act will ensure 6-day a week integrated delivery of packages and letters, allow post offices to offer non-postal services from fishing licenses to subway passes, eliminate the requirement to excessively pre-fund retiree health benefits, and create a public mail performance dashboard.

Send an email to your Senators, and then follow up with a quick phone call.

Let us know if you act so we can say thank you!

2 Comments

  1. Valerie Selden

    DeJoy needs to be fired.

  2. Jessica

    The USPS is a central and integral part of the functioning of our society. Destroying it for the sake of subpar corporate entities is unconscionable.

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