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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday.
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Postal traffic to US sank 80% after administration ended exemption on low-value parcels

Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports.

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Sep 8

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · Sep 8

T-Mobile is bankrolling Elon Musk, empowering Trump’s agenda & has spent years stopping workers from joining a union.

We’re organizing a boycott to show corporations if they enable extremists they will lose customers. #BoycottTMobile

RSVP for the call on Sept 10: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Sep 8

"A shift to privatized postal services may cause retailers to pass higher logistics costs onto consumers..." #USPS #USMailNotForSale

How Trump's Push to Privatize USPS Could Affect Your Amazon Orders

Discover how USPS privatization could reshape mail delivery, from rising costs and slower service to Amazon's evolving role in rural logistics.

www.investopedia.com

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · Aug 26

Cutting services at the USPS will also drastically undercut small businesses from Auntie's Etsy shop to big independent bookstores to eBay sellers and more.

That's a feature, not a bug, of privatization. Elimination of competition by making infrastructure unaffordable for the little guys.

U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

The USPS does not operate on taxpayer dollars. The privatizers don't care about saving money for taxpayers. They want to cash in on the world's largest delivery network - boosting corporate profits and ending the public service mission of the #USPS

a woman holds a sign "working together anything is possible" next to her, a man in a ball cap holds a sign "Your U.S.P.S operates on zero tax payer dollars. Say NO to privatization text defend to 91990.

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

How will this affect you?

Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you?

Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs

www.theguardian.com

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Erika Savoy @erikasavoy.bsky.social · Aug 26

US Mail is NOT for sale!

U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

The USPS does not operate on taxpayer dollars. The privatizers don't care about saving money for taxpayers. They want to cash in on the world's largest delivery network - boosting corporate profits and ending the public service mission of the #USPS

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

We really can still do this! #USPS

Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · Aug 26

This is a fundamental #DigitalEquity issue. I recall the days when the USPS was could have been a bank and ISP. Imagine a public institution dedicated to bridging financial literacy, knowledge, and the digital divide.

FYI - We still can do this.

Grist @grist.org · Aug 25

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address.

Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.

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#Climate #FEMA #Disaster #Policy #Politics

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

Breaking!

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Aug 26

JUST IN: A federal appeals court concludes that discarding mail ballots in misdated or undated envelopes violates the Constitution.

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

The USPS does not operate on taxpayer dollars. The privatizers don't care about saving money for taxpayers. They want to cash in on the world's largest delivery network - boosting corporate profits and ending the public service mission of the #USPS

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 26

This author thinks Johnny Cash's letter to June Carter Cash is the best. Do you have a love letter that makes you smile? One thing's for sure - no one is going to remember a text message decades later.

The Greatest Love Letter Ever Written? - Monoset

At least one poll has put Johnny Cash's letter to his wife, June Carter Cash, as the greatest love letter of all time. The letter was written over 20 years

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hundreds of postal workers and their allies rallied in Orlando against postal privatization as the National Rural Letter Carriers Association held its convention. #USPS

Hundreds of postal workers rally against privatization outside Orlando City Hall

A couple hundred postal workers and allies rallied outside of Orlando City Hall Monday to protest ongoing concerns about the privatization of the U.S. Postal Service under the corporate-friendly…

www.orlandoweekly.com

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 25

People not getting their mail is a big problem for no good reason.

MSN

Postal companies across Europe, Asia and the Pacific plan to suspend package deliveries to the U.S. because of President Donald Trump’s order ending tariff exemptions.

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wall Street banks and their political friends want to sell off our public Post Office at our expense. Let's tell Congress that the US Mail Is Not For Sale. #USPS #SaveThePostOffice #USmailNotForSale

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 20

Whether he succeeds in eliminating it or not, it's unacceptable for a president to try and undermine vote by mail - the preferred method of millions of Americans.

CREW @citizensforethics.org · Aug 18

President Trump’s executive order attempting to eliminate mail-in voting tears at the very threads of our democracy.

It’s an abuse of power meant to silence voters and restrict one of our most basic rights. Every American should be outraged.

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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · Aug 19

Labor Day is just around the corner - but as workers' rights are under attack, this year we need to honor the day with more than a picnic. Thousands of union members and community organizations are poised to take action! Find or organize an event near you: www.mobilize.us/mayday/

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 19

From Marketplace: Scientists are saying how these trucks are perfectly suited for electrification because of short routes and a lot of stopping and starting. If EVs don't make sense here, then where do they make sense? #SaveThePostOffice #USPS

USPS’s EV plans face a Republican roadblock

Congress may scrap the USPS’s plans for a mostly electric fleet.

www.marketplace.org

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 19

..the Brennan Center for Justice, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and the Center for Election Innovation and Research—have debunked Trump’s claims and found that vote-by-mail methods only expand voting options for voters...
time.com/7310391/trum... #VoteByMail

Trump Says Only U.S. Votes by Mail. Here Are the Facts

Trump said he would "get rid" of mail ballots before the 2026 midterms as he made several false claims about the method

time.com

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 19

Goodnight stamps, goodnight mail,
Goodnight letters that never fail.
Goodnight Post Office, steady and true,
Goodnight to those who’d sell off you.

#USPS #USMailNotForSal

RM (@dorsalstream.bsky.social)

We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 19

"If the privatizers succeed at selling off this public institution, in whole or in part, Wall Street investors and postal competitors may celebrate, but postal customers—businesses large and small, households urban & rural—will suffer"
@apwu.bsky.social pres Mark Dimondstein
#USMailNotForSale #USPS

Mail Workers Union Leader: U.S. Postal Service Is Not for Sale | Opinion

As the U.S. Postal Service celebrates its 250th anniversary, my experience lends a unique perspective on its past, present, and future.

www.newsweek.com

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 18

Solidarity is everything - thank you @cwaunion.bsky.social #usmailnotforsale

CWA Stands with Postal Workers Against Privatization

Members of CWA Local 1101 ended July outside Wells Fargo Bank in New York City calling for an end to threats of privatization of the U.S. Postal Service.

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 18

APWU President, Mark Dimondstein, talks about why the fight against privatization is as important as ever in Newsweek.
"The Postal Service has driven the nation's development, from roads, railroads, and civil aviation to the Sears mail-order catalog to Amazon's e-commerce." #USMailNotForSale #USPS

Mail Workers Union Leader: U.S. Postal Service Is Not for Sale | Opinion

As the U.S. Postal Service celebrates its 250th anniversary, my experience lends a unique perspective on its past, present, and future.

www.newsweek.com

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Return to Sender" is the right name for Sen. Joni Ernst's bill - it will make Iowan's delivery worse. Stripping out funding to modernize a 40 year old vehicle fleet will leave mechanics struggling to even find the parts to fix aging motors. #USPS #USMailNotForSale

Ernst's "Return to Sender" Act about EVs for Postal Service - KIWA Radio

Statewide, Iowa (RI) – Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is proposing a bill to end the U.S. Postal Service plan to buy electric vehicles for its fleet of delivery vehicles. Thousands […]

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just remember - up to 65 million people cast their ballot by mail. It is a safe, efficient, and convenient way for people of all parties and none to exercise their right to vote.

Maybe Vladimir Putin isn't the best person to trust on how to run a fair election.... #VoteByMail #USPS

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 18

A beautiful way to honor the former president! #JimmyCarter #USPS

USPS to honor Jimmy Carter with Forever stamp

The U.S. Postal Service on Saturday announced it will issue a commemorative Forever stamp honoring Georgia’s only U.S. president, Jimmy Carter.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

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U.S. Mail Not For Sale @usmailnotforsale.bsky.social · Aug 18

Inside the terrible GOP plan to strip federal funding to modernize the Postal Service vehicle fleet of billions of dollars of EV funding. Meanwhile, many of their constituents' mail is being delivered in 40 year old vehicles. #USPS

Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service

WASHINGTON (AP) — A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, the U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempt…

www.wavy.com

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