The Post Office says that it needs funds to survive the COVID-19 crisis and the president is refusing to give it funds. He does not want the Post Office to survive, for two main reasons.
First, he wants this public agency to close so big business can take it over and make lots of profit from our mail and packages. There would be no congressional oversight, our mail service would go down as our costs would go up.
Second, and most importantly, he wants to do away with the Post Office so that there can be no vote-by-mail in November. He has admitted that if there is a high voter turnout he would lose the election, as would most Republicans, so he is doing everything he can to suppress voter turnout. During this pandemic, when people are afraid to come out of their houses, voting by mail is very important and he is trying to shut that down.
They say that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can keep us from getting our mail. But they did not count on Republicans, who have been trying to shut down the Post Office for years. We must not let them do that, so we keep our mail service and so we keep our democracy.
We must demand that the Post Office be funded and remain a public agency serving us, the public, rather than the Republicans or big business. Contact your representatives and senators and demand that they put funding for the Post Office in the next stimulus bill, and to hold firm with that demand.
Doug Selwyn
Greenfield