Letter Carriers & Postal Workers to Rally Against USPS Privatization in Portland & Bangor, March 20 & 23
Postal workers from the Maine State Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and American Postal Workers Union (APWU) will be holding rallies next week in Portland and Bangor against efforts by the Trump administration to privatize the US Postal Service.
Postal Workers (APWU) Bangor Day of Action for USPS
Thursday, March 20, 2025 • 10:00 AM
Bangor Post Office
73 Hammond St., Bangor
Postal Workers (APWU) Portland Day of Action for USPS
Thursday, March 20, 2025 • 11:00 AM
Monument Square
456 Congress Street, Portland
Letter Carriers (NALC) Portland Day of Action for USPS
Sunday, March 23, 2025 • 11:00 AM
151 Forrest Ave. Portland
“These local rallies nationwide will bring together NALC members and the public to show their support for letter carriers, all postal employees, and the Postal Service,” NALC President Brian L. Renfroe said. “At a crucial time, this is an opportunity to educate our customers about everything at stake if the Postal Service is privatized or restructured.
Last month, President Donald Trump announced that he is handing over oversight of the US Postal Service to his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, even though USPS is an independent agency that is supposed to be overseen by a nine-member board of governors. At Lutnick’s swearing-in ceremony, Trump told reporters that is considering “form of a merger” of the Postal Service because its supposedly losing “massive amounts of money.” In December, Trump said privatizing the USPS is “not the worst idea I’ve ever heard.”
“It’s an idea that a lot of people have liked for a long time,” Trump said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “We’re looking at it.”
However, as Renfroe pointed out in an interview, the “Postal Service remains the most affordable way to ship mail.
“The destruction of any part of the public service we provide is going to have one bottom line result for the customers, it’s going to cost more and take longer to get there,” he told CNN recently. “It really comes down to the core meaning of a public service… The Post Office is going to serve you at the same cost no matter where you are. That really should be the very definition of a public service.”
In a statement to NALC members, Renfroe said that the President’s proposal has put postal jobs, mail service and the whole USPS on the line.
“We need everyone’s help in our fight like hell against these attacks,” he said.
On Thursday, the AP reported that DOGE and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are planning to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.
