Sunday, April 6, 2025

Will you sign tell Trump to keep his hands off the U.S Postal Service?



The U.S. Postal Service is under attack—again—by President Donald Trump and the world's biggest billionaire conman, Elon Musk. Trump's plans to take over the post office and sell it off for parts would be disastrous for people across the country.1 In fact, it could effectively end rural postal service for the millions of people that depend on it, and dramatically raise costs for everyone else.

During Trump's first term, people came together across the country to fight back against his reckless attempts to privatize the post office.2 And we were successful. Protests were launched from coast to coast, and we saved this trusted and necessary service that everyday people rely on. We can—and must—do it again.

Millions of working-class people rely on the Postal Service for their medications, food, voting, and everyday needs. It is a service that we the people own, and we will fight to keep it that way.

Will you sign the petition to send a clear message that we won't allow the Trump administration to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service?

Sign the Petition

As Trump and Musk go on their rampage against the American people, slashing jobs and robbing our communities of the funding we need (and pay for through taxes), concerns about the future of the post office loom ahead. News reports signal that Trump is planning to take over the U.S. Postal Service, dissolve the independent agency, fire the bipartisan governing board, and sell off the profitable parts.3

This has been Trump's plan all along. For years, he has wanted to bankrupt the Postal Service and allow private equity firms and global corporations to privatize the service and allow billionaires to further profit off of the American people.

And let's be clear: Privatizing the post office would essentially end guaranteed mail service for every American.

Some members of the U.S. Postal Service board of governors are reportedly ready to fight back against Trump’s seizure of the department.4 We have to be ready too. Add your name to the petition NOW!

It's not just the essentials that are on the line—medications, food, legal documents, and voting ballots and reminders. The post office is also how we get messages from our loved ones—postcards, letters, and gifts that connect us to the important people in our lives.

And for the 129,000 rural mail carriers who deliver to 50 million residential mailboxes across the country, they are more than just postal workers—they are lifelines.5 Mail carriers, especially in rural places, are deeply invested in their communities and work, day in and day out, to keep their neighbors connected—to each other and the world.

The ability to get the goods you need and stay in contact with the people you love should not depend on where you live or how much money you have. But in Trump's world, it would.

Click here to add your name to the petition and fight back against Trump’s post office takeover, and then share with three friends to help spread the word.

Thanks for all you do.

–MoveOn

P.S. This petition was created on MoveOn.org, where anyone can start their own online petitions. You can start your own petition to push for progressive change here.

Sources:

1. "Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say," The Washington Post, February 21, 2025 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/trump-usps-takeover-dejoy/

2. "'Save the Post Office Saturday' draws thousands of protesters nationwide," The Washington Post, August 22, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/save-the-post-office-saturday-draws-thousands-of-protesters-nationwide/2020/08/22/ee09d094-e4b8-11ea-8dd2-d07812bf00f7_story.html

3. "Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say," The Washington Post, February 21, 2025 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/trump-usps-takeover-dejoy/

4. Ibid

5. "USPS Privatization Would Cost Rural America More Than Mail," Jacobin, February 26, 2025 https://jacobin.com/2025/02/usps-rural-areas-services-privatization



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