NPMHU – 2/4/25 – A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a resolution opposing privatization of the United States Postal Service on January 28, 2025. If adopted, the resolution, H. Res. 70, would express 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.”
Representatives Steve Lynch (D-MA-08) and Nick LaLota (R-NY-01) are the lead sponsors of the resolution, with Representatives Andrew Garbarino (R-NY-02) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA-11) as the first cosponsors.
H. Res. 70 is a direct response to the growing rhetoric around privatizing the Postal Service. While there has been growing concern over the finances of the USPS, calls for privatization fail to recognize the fact that the Postal Service is constitutionally obligated to serve every single American business and household. USPS employs over 640,000 men and women across the country; serves 166.6 million delivery points; and is the backbone of a $1.58 trillion mailing industry. Such service has been a mainstay of the nation’s systems for communications and commerce.
The National Postal Mail Handlers Union urges all members of the House of Representatives to cosponsor this resolution.
Back in the 70’s the PostMaster of the city of Fresno Ca said at a spontaneous standup on the work floor “ the only part of the post office guaranteed is the delivery of mail not the distribution or separation not front counter clerks specially not the Management & Supervisions “ so he encouraged us to go back to college , but don’t count on Postal Retirement because it could change overnight in the right Climate “ he had just returned from a Postal Conference ! If the delivery portion is 1/3 of the total work force let that be known as USPS and be paid by tax dollars on the same scale as other government employees the other 2/3’s realistically could be converted Private and let Musk & Issa deal with that bullshit ! That was the Graffiti on the Walls about the USPS from the 70’s