Call your reps and tell them to shut down Trump's proposal here. If he destroys the USPS, he destroys the business of every independent comics creator you love - every independent store, every crowdfunder. All to shovel our money into the maws of billionaires. NO. Find your reps here: reps.fyi
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: Sens. @padilla.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov lead six other Senate Democrats in a letter opposing Trump admin calls to fold what Congress set up to be an independent postal service into the Commerce Department and potentially privatize USPS services www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
![Dear Secretary Lutnick:
We write to express our grave concern over your statements and ongoing reports that the Trump Administration may soon attempt to bring the United States Postal Service (USPS) under the control of the Department of Commerce and potentially privatize services that are relied upon by millions of Americans. Not only would such a move violate the Postal Reauthorization Act1 and harm Americans in many ways, but it would also have a very negative impact on our democracy by disrupting and undermining public confidence in the handling of election mail. We strongly urge you to stop your deeply misguided pursuit of this effort immediately.
Vote by mail is a safe and trustworthy method that millions of Americans use to cast their ballots in federal and state elections. During the 2024 general election cycle alone, the Postal Service delivered over 99 million ballots to and from voters, according to the USPS’s December 2024 post-election report. Data from the most recent 2024 general election cycle makes clear that the Postal Service provides reliable mail delivery without
any partisan influence, as Democrats, Republicans and Independents all continued to embrace vote by mail as a secure and convenient way to participate in our elections.
Privatizing the Postal Service would put our democracy in the hands of corporations that are more focused on efficiency and profit than the public good. The Postal Service provides free mail delivery to every address in the country, including rural and small communities that are hard to reach. President Trump’s Task Force on the United States Postal System concluded in its December 2018 report that the Postal Service’s “comprehensive delivery network that covers every address in the country is a critical part of the nation’s infrastructure that cannot be replicated by private actors[.]”2 Bringing the Postal Service under the control of political appointees at the Department of Commerce and potentially private companie…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eijqdygh72wuei7faamrclpc/bafkreihnmtzc6zyysn43yvnujkgmggghxyjc6mvflvvogkyesuydzvgt2i)
