Over 150 People Turn out for Letter Carriers Rally to Save the Postal Service

Mail carriers with the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 92 rallied on Sunday March 23 in Portland to demand a halt to attacks on the USPS. The event followed two other rallies in Portland and Bangor last week organized by the American Postal Workers Union against efforts by the Trump administration to privatize the US Postal Service.

Last month, President Donald Trump announced that he is handing oversight of the US Postal Service over to his Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, even though the 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 he is considering a “form of a merger” of the Postal Service.  In December, Trump said privatizing the USPS is “not the worst idea I’ve ever heard.”

The President’s billionaire advisor Elon Musk has called on the US Postal Service to be privatized.DOGE and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy are also planning to have 10,000 workers take early retirement offers and cut billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.

We need to strengthen the USPS and improve staffing and recruitment efforts, not dismantle this critical public service!