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15 ways to support USPS

 If you have been looking at the news lately, you've seen stories about removed mailboxes, worries about delivering ballots on time, and more. If you want to support USPS, here are some ways.

  1. Buy stamps for yourself or for charities, please tell me if you know of more that take them (so far I have only found Ronald McDonald House but if you get in touch with me, you can donate postcard stamps to Indivisible Chicago)
  2. Don't need/want stamps? USPS has lots of other gift items you can explore
  3. Call your senators. The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) has some guidance
  4. Email, mail, fax your representatives or leave a comment on their website. Don't know your reps' contact info? Go here and enter your address. I suggest a modified version of the APWU statement: The Postal Service is in a crisis, caused by the Coronavirus, and Congress needs to act, urgently. The Coronavirus shutdown is plummeting postal revenues while increasing costs. The Postal Service could run out of money soon and the new Postmaster General is already using the crisis to slow down mail/package sorting and delivery. Rather than allowing our Postal Service to slow as service is cut service, Congress must provide support. I strongly urge [insert rep name] to support at least $25 billion in stimulus funding for our public Postal Service.
  5. Send notes to your senators through the APWU
  6. If you can display signs somewhere, download and print this one or this one (from APWU)
  7. Record a story about why USPS is meaningful to you to be shared
  8. Sign the Common Cause petition 
  9. Sign the Change.org petition
  10. Sign the Progress America petition
  11. Sign the MoveOn.org petition
  12. Text USPS to 50409 to send a message to your reps about how USPS needs emergency funding via ResistBot (you will have to send several more texts to finish it)
  13. When you can, shop at places that ship via USPS
  14. Read up on the threat facing USPS, being informed is an important step
  15. Spread the word! The USPS needs us. Some places to follow: Save the Post Office twitter; The APWU twitter; APWU Instagram; US Mail Not for Sale twitter; USPS twitter; USPS Instagram 

(Prompt by me)

American Postal Workers Union
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