{"id":37307,"date":"2025-02-04T11:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37307"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:30:40","slug":"usps-should-remain-an-independent-establishment-of-the-federal-government-and-not-subject-to-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/02\/04\/usps-should-remain-an-independent-establishment-of-the-federal-government-and-not-subject-to-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS should remain an independent establishment of the Federal Government and not subject to privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmhu.org\/media\/news\/house-resolution-70\">NPMHU<\/a> &#8211; 2\/4\/25 &#8211; 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 \u201cthat 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">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.\u00a0 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\u2019s systems for communications and commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The National Postal Mail Handlers Union urges all members of the House of Representatives to cosponsor this resolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-13103\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/npmhu1-logo-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPMHU &#8211; 2\/4\/25 &#8211; 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 \u201cthat Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37308,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37307\/revisions\/37308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}