x If just half the adults in the US bought a sheet of stamps, around $11, it would raise about $1.5 Billion for our postal service. #SAVETHEUSPS #BUYSOMESTAMPS https://t.co/A9jkIb0J63 — PJ Lovell (@NotDeadYet57) April 12, 2020

I just purchased two sheets of stamps. There is a whole selection of stamps you can choose from right here —

store.usps.com/...

You’d be amazed at the variety of what the USPS offers. I was. Had no idea until I signed up on their web site.

Why should we do this?

Because together we can save our neighbors’ jobs, our small businesses, and post offices. Equally, if not more importantly, together we can save our ability to vote by mail during the Trump plague



Donald Trump and the GOP slash and burners, want to kill the Post Office. They want to take away our right to vote.

Destroying the USPS removes any hope of voting by mail. In spite of millions of military personnel voting by mail, in spite of the success of those states that have voting by mail. in spite Trump himself voting by mail, in spite of the danger during these plague days of voting in person, Team Trump threatened to kill the pandemic relief bill if it included help for the postal service.

Eliminating voting by mail is one of the reasons for the GOP’s years long attacks on the USPS. They also want to kill one of our largest unions, one that is made up of a large number of women, people of color, and Veterans.

Then there is the greed factor. The USPS works for us, not the 1% who own Trump and the GOP. They’d love to privatize our Postal Service and take away any transparency and accountability. Our own Boadicea859 powerful comment lays out the greed and power at work.

Boadicea859 Apr 13, 2020 at 12:02:41 PM Hi Onomastic, I’m so glad to see your diary with great ideas & comments to motivate us to save the USPS. It was mentioned in a couple of comments below, the puzzling GOP mandated pre-funding of the USPS employees retirement, I believe for medical benefits. The USPS wouldn’t be in trouble if not for this Congressional sabotage. So why did it happen in the first place? Everyone loves & respects the postal service for delivering, day after day. I believe this is completely intentional & pre-planned, with the sole purpose of privatizing it for corporate interests to take over & grab that pension fund for themselves, leaving the workers with NOTHING! Incredibly, as I began writing this, Craig Melvin on MSNBC spoke to Mark Dimondstein, the president of the American Postal Workers Union. During the piece it was mentioned there is a deeper crisis the USPS is facing & Mr. Dimondstein said there was a June 2018 OMB White House report that called for selling the Post Office. He also indicated the COVID pandemic could reduce the USPS revenue by 50% or more. The Postmaster General & Postal Board of Governors (mostly Republicans) asked Congress for $25B in relief funding to ride out the pandemic & to modernize the system, but that was rejected by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in the $2T bill passed recently. The segment ended there, but Craig Melvin mentioned the need to discuss the unfunded mandate in another interview. So what is really at stake here? Others who commented earlier mentioned that the employees fund is around $40B now & they are required to bring it to $50B? Quite a golden egg corporate windfall. We must never allow that to happen! The USPS belongs to the American people & should not be dismantled or destroyed. Democracy dies in darkness.

It’s all a power grab. Power and greed are the basis of all Trump’s and the GOP’s actions.

They want to control our ability to communicate. The USPS’ mandate is to deliver mail to everyone. Period. Trump and GOP do not want us to have the ability to reach out to one another, to share ideas and concerns. They do not want us sending out “remember to register” post cards, And God knows they don’t want us doing “GOTV” efforts through the postal service.

They want to remove our control over our own government. It’s what they have always wanted.

And they are very close to being able to do so. Due to the COVID-19, the USPS is fast running out of operating money. Unlike the millions of our money given to private companies, Trump and his destroyers have refused to help our postal service in anyway.



But we can. We can fight to save our USPS.

Together we can stop Trump and his enablers from destroying what belongs to all of us.

We’re in a war for our country and it’s time to suit up in whatever ways we can.



Go to https://t.co/01jFDCziuO and order a sheet of stamps.



#buystamps, save the postal system and our Democracy. Let’s get it done!