The United States Postal Service (USPS) isn't just a convenience — it's a constitutional promise, John.
And right now, that promise is under threat by the Trump administration.
Unsurprisingly, the administration signaled a potential step toward privatizing the USPS with its selection of a FedEx board member to serve as its new postmaster general.
In particular, rural Americans are at risk of being cut off from the USPS’s services.
Private mail carriers like UPS, Amazon, and FedEx charge “remote surcharges” to nearly 10% of all U.S. zip codes — home to more than 4 million Americans — because they live in distant areas.
Plans to privatize the USPS aren’t new or about efficiency. They’re about dismantling public services so the far-right can prove government doesn’t work.
New polling shows just how controversial plans to privatize the postal service really are. Nearly 60% of respondents opposed privatizing USPS.
This unified opposition cuts across political, geographic, and demographic lines, with respondents in all regions of the country saying they wanted to maintain the USPS as a public service by a margin of at least 29 points.
It’s even more telling that 58% of rural voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 said they were opposed to privatizing the postal service.
And it makes sense, John. Rural voters would be among the hardest hit groups of people to be impacted should these privatization plans see the light of day.
But just because privatizing the USPS is uniformly unpopular, that doesn’t mean MAGA Republicans won’t try to do it.
As we’ve seen in the last four months, Trump and his MAGA movement aren’t operating based on the popularity of their ideas — their endgame is to further entrench their power and that of their billionaire cronies at all of our expense.
That’s why it’s critical we use our voices to make it loud and clear that we won’t accept this.
John, please take a moment to sign onto our petition and oppose MAGA's plans to privatize the USPS.
In solidarity,
LeftNet
