This is How You Defend USPS

President Donald Trump has attacked the U.S. Postal Service for months, spearheading the decades-long conservative effort to destroy the service and its strong public sector union. Trump has called the service “a joke” and appointed a political donor, Louis DeJoy, to oversee its operations and seeming evisceration. Trump has tried everything, from threatening to block a $10 million line of credit from Congress to the USPS if it doesn’t hike its package rates to prohibiting overtime to taking hundreds of mail-sorting machines offline.

Americans have fought back, noting that changes could corrupt mail-in voting and that without the USPS, areas that are not profitable to serve - rural areas, Indigenous territories - could be cut off from mail. After public outrage over the USPS removing collection boxes before the election, DeJoy suspended some changes.

Through it all, USPS’s greatest defenders have been the average Americans who love it. Here are some ways people are supporting the USPS:

Buy postage, merchandise, and more from your local post office, or the USPS online store
Call your senators saying you support USPS relief and the HEROES Act, which would give $25 billion to the postal service
Use Resistbot and text “USPS” to "50409" to send Congress a message supporting the USPS
Visit Adopt an Inmate to write to incarcerated people or donate money for postage, or visit the Prisoners Literature Project to donate money for postage (via the Peach Fuzz)
Check with your favorite small nonprofits to see if a donation would assist with their mailing and postage fees
Participate in the American Postal Workers Union #SaveThePostOffice Day of Action on August 25, or host an event yourself
Print out protest signs in support of the postal service and postal workers, or record a video for the #SaveThePostOffice social media campaign

If voting by mail, request your ballot and mail it in as early as possible, and request a tracking number. Or, drop it off at an official ballot collection box (and check the day and time it must be received there)