Resources on Postal Privatization

People’s Postal Agenda Summary – In 2021, members of a A Grand Alliance held a three-day summit to discuss and articulate a future-oriented vision for the Postal Service. This summary of a discussion draft produced for that summit was update in August 2021.

National Day of Action – October 8 – The U.S. Mail is Not for Sale!

Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office, David Dayen, American Prospect

Making the Postal Service Great Again: Workforce Submission to the White House Task Force on the USPS 
— White paper submitted by National Association of Letter Carriers, American Postal Workers Union, National Postal Mail Handlers, and National Rural Letter Carriers

• Executive Summary
• Full Report
• Policy options for reducing or eliminating the prefunding burden
• History of postal reform legislation

White House Office of Management and Budget report:

OMB report: Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century: Reform Plan and Reorganization Recommendations

White House Plan to Privatize the Postal Service, American Postal Workers Union
Statement on OMB’s proposal to privatize the Postal Service, National Association of Letter Carriers

Resolutions Against Privatization

H. Res 993: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is not subject to privatization.
S.Res.633: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is not subject to privatization.
No Postal Service Privatization, AFL-CIO, July 26, 2018