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.
Don’t we already get junk mail directly from the postal service?
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).
I will collect it and give it back to them. They can spend their money sorting it and trying to do whatever with it.
If it’s a private company, expect that they will charge you more to send it back.
It costs me nothing to toss it into their collection boxes.
You assume that those would remain…
They will
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.
It’s their business model. UPS and FedEx already have collection boxes and they’ve always been private.
why not just throw it away, instead complaining about it like other conservatives.