Dear Ann,
Donald Trump and his billionaire allies are once again trying to dismantle the United States Postal Service – not because it's broken, but because it isn't making them rich.
Their goal? Break it up, sell it off, and hand over the remains to corporate giants run by billionaires like themselves, who care more about making profits than serving people.
This is not just about the post office. It's part of a larger scheme to turn every public good in America into a for-profit venture for the wealthy few, while the rest of us are left with higher costs, poorer quality, fewer services, and no accountability.
From our schools to our water, our transportation systems to the USPS – they want to privatize it all. Why? Because billionaires and Wall Street see public services not as vital infrastructure, but as untapped revenue streams. They want to take what belongs to everyone and turn it into exclusive cash cows that only serve them.
Now, we have a real opportunity to fight back. Congress is considering two bipartisan resolutions, in the House and the Senate, to stop Trump's USPS privatization plan in its tracks and reaffirm the Postal Service's founding mission: to serve the public, not the profit margins of the rich.
Send a direct message now to urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and pass House Resolution 70 and Senate Resolution 147. Tell them to protect the USPS from Trump's privatization scheme and stand up for public services that serve everyone.
These resolutions already have support from nearly 200 members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle. Republicans like Sen. Thom Tillis and Rep Don Bacon and Democrats like Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Gerry Connolly are standing together to say: the people's post office is not for sale.
The USPS isn't just another government agency. It's one of the most trusted and effective public institutions in America. It's written into the Constitution and built into our infrastructure. Nearly 30 percent of its 630,000 employees are Black, and over 40 percent are women. It's a lifeline to rural families, seniors, veterans, Indigenous communities, and small businesses across the country, delivering to over 168 million addresses every day, regardless of income, geography, or profitability.
Make no mistake: privatizing the USPS would be a disaster. Delivery prices would soar, rural areas would be abandoned, and jobs would be lost, all to gut a public service for short-term private gains. Trump and his Wall Street backers tried this before. We stopped them then – and we can stop them again. But only if Congress hears from all of us.
This is about more than the post office. It's about whether America remains a nation that invests in the public good – or one that sells out to the highest bidder.
Urge your members of Congress to pass the resolutions to stop USPS privatization in red districts as well as blue. Tell them that turning public services into private profits hurts the country.
Thanks for standing up today. Because once the post office is gone, we don't get it back.
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
