[This letter was posted as a comment on a brief, well-made video by Senator Warren on her Facebook page and shared on a very useful new Facebook page run by an ad-hoc crew of postal workers and retirees from all four postal unions and all parts of the country, Save Our Postal Service.]
Senator--I am not a constituent of yours, though I very much regret not having the opportunity to vote to elect you President this November. But I do have one bone to pick with you.
As a retired postal worker active in the fight to keep postal workers safe and to resist Trump’s assault on the US Postal Service. I thought the content of your short video was excellent. You showed your concern, speaking eloquently of the history and importance of the Post Office and of the immediate threat to it.
The problem is your conclusion. You call on viewers to join you in a vague “grassroots movement against corruption.” But the USPS, hammered by falling mail volume due to the global pandemic, is running out of money. Fast.
If you are going to appeal to the support and love the people of this country have for the US Mail, you ought to be calling on them to act –now!—to defend it. Congress put money to bolster the Post Office in two successive bipartisan multi-trillion dollar stimulus packages. Both times Trump and Mnuchin threatened to veto the bills if aid to the USPS was included! Both times Congress folded like a cheap suit.
This must not happen again! We need you to mobilize your millions of supporters around the country to bombard your colleagues in Congress and demand they act decisively to Save Our Postal Service. If you could also find time to take visible and newsworthy action to underline your call, that too would be most welcome.
Very sincerely,
Dennis O’Neil