The National Association of Letter Carriers organized nationwide rallies to protest plans to restructure or privatize the Postal Service.

Summary

Nationwide protests erupted as postal workers opposed plans to privatize the USPS and cut 10,000 jobs.

The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) organized rallies in over 200 cities, condemning the proposed merger with the Commerce Department and collaboration with Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Lawmakers like Senators Dick Durbin and Tina Smith joined demonstrations, calling the changes unconstitutional.

USPS employees fear losing jobs and essential public services, especially in rural areas. Trump and Musk defend privatization as efficient, but critics argue it endangers vital community functions.

  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
    129·
    4 days ago

    USPS was a fully self-sufficient dependable and inexpensive service for generations until stupid and unnecessary limitations were placed on their revenue streams and functionality. The end goal was always to replace them with a private entity that, by the nature of profit-driven businesses, will be more expensive, less efficient, will be a worse employer and have less oversight and transparency by the public. Also expect junk mail directly from your postal service from now on.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      they have been trying to privitize it since Reagen, and only until GWB forced usps to fund 75years of pensions funds in advance so the gop can plunder it letter, is when they started to get into money trouble.

      Also currently, one of family member is USPS worker and they have been stretched pretty thin, the turnover is pretty bad, they hire a bunch from somewhere else and they enver stick around long enough because its “wears down your body when your doing more than you should”

      • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee
        14·
        4 days ago

        I believe what they’re saying is that if UPS or FedEx is now the postal service they’ll put junk mail for their services in your mailbox. What you consider junk mail is other businesses paying the post office to send mail (though you may not like it).

        • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          I will collect it and give it back to them. They can spend their money sorting it and trying to do whatever with it.

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            12·
            4 days ago

            why not just throw it away, instead complaining about it like other conservatives.

          • Clasm@ttrpg.network
            81·
            4 days ago

            If it’s a private company, expect that they will charge you more to send it back.

                  • Clasm@ttrpg.network
                    41·
                    4 days ago

                    There would be no reason for them to keep a free service like that when they could charge the consumer for it instead.

                    No company in position to purchase the USPS would have any conviction to show goodwill towards their users. Only quarterly profits matter.