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.
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”