Mail is an essential service that's getting slower and more expensive.
The only service going the last mile for everyone.
The U.S. Postal Service is a critical, constitutionally authorized institution. It is the only courier capable of (and mandated to) deliver mail and packages to every address in America. Postal carriers go the last mile, no matter how rural or remote the address.
An intricate and growing mail network.
The U.S. Postal Service processes more than 425 million pieces of mail (not including packages) each day, going to and from a staggering 163 million delivery points. The scope of its network continues to grow as the country adds approximately 1 million delivery addresses each year.
Rising postage
and mail
delays.
The Postal Service is moving ahead with postage hikes every six months. While rates for most mail are going up, charities and other nonprofits, magazines, newspapers, and catalogs face even bigger postage increases.
The Postal Service has also implemented official delays for most First Class Mail.
As service declines, so will the Postal Service itself.
While everyone feels the pinch of higher postage and delayed mail, these trends will also hurt the Postal Service. It will lose not only more consumer mail, but also business, newspaper and nonprofit-related mail, which generates the bulk of its postage revenue.
The solution? You.
The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 (a bipartisan federal law) was intended to make large postage increases and delays unnecessary by implementing fiscal reforms for the Postal Service. Yet USPS leadership has been ignoring it — even announcing more postage hikes on the same day the bill was signed into law. Now, USPS regulators have admitted that the postage hikes are unwise, but they stated that they don't have the power to stop them.
That's why we are supporting new legislation — The USPS SERVES US Act (H.R. 9839) — which will empower USPS regulators (the Postal Regulatory Commission, or "PRC") to stop USPS decisions that are hurting its ability to serve the American people and driving it into financial ruin.
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Our mission is to hold the Postal Service accountable and stop it from self-destructing.
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We're equipping Americans with the facts and the tools to speak out. Together, we can preserve the Postal Service for future generations.
Here's how you can help.
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