WASHINGTON, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, National Association of Letter Carriers President Brian Renfroe and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association President Donald Maston will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Tuesday, March 25 at 10 a.m.
This year, 2025, marks the 250th year of the public United States Postal Service, older than the country, mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, and since 1970 operated as an independent agency primarily funded through the sale of stamps and services.
President Trump has suggested transferring the USPS to the U.S. Department of Commerce, which could only be done through an act of Congress. Trump advisor and the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, Elon Musk, earlier this month said, “I think we should privatize the Post Office.”
While the USPS has been exempt from DOGE-directed cuts that have hit other parts of the federal government, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy recently signed an agreement for DOGE to provide assistance to the postal service. DeJoy also has launched his own 10-year plan to improve the efficiency of the USPS’ operations called “Delivering for America.”
Postal unions have reached voluntary early retirement agreements with DeJoy that would reduce the postal service’s workforce by more than 10,000 workers.
Speakers at Tuesday’s Newsmaker will address what’s happening now and what proposed changes would mean for the price of stamps and packages, the frequency of mail delivery and other issues important to providing postal service to 169 million addresses six and sometimes seven times a week.
This Headliners event is open to credentialed media and Club members. Registration is essential. To submit questions in advance for the speaker, put MAIL on the subject line and email to headliners@press.org.
The National Press Club is located on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
PRESS CONTACT: Cecily Scott Martin for the National Press Club; cscottmartin@press.org; (202) 662-7525
The three stooges are going to take the stage and speak ill of privatization, and they should. Their biggest fear is not privatization but the fact that they and all their bloated union staffs will cease to exist. They all are in bed with management in some form or another, failing over and over to point out the waste in the USPS and the abuse of their members. Witness the NALC every contract negotiating in secret, always promising to “study” how to stop hostile work environments. Meanwhile, managers across the country delete and change employee clock rings, essentially stealing from them yet the NALC pretends it doesn’t exist. I’m not sure the APWU members have a clue about what’s in store for them as their jobs, other than window clerks, are on the endangered jobs list. Meanwhile, service continues to slide to unprecedented lows. It used to be snail mail meant the snail would eventually get there, now you never know and the leaders of these unions are just as responsible as the USPS.