A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service

05/24/2021

We have a few short days to speak out against the mail slowdown. Please join A Grand Alliance members and send a message to the USPS and PRC.

After a year when unprecedented mail delays outraged the country, Postal management is now trying to permanently slow down the delivery of our mail. USPS has announced slowdowns to their “service standards”, which are the on-time delivery targets for different kinds of mail. Today, First Class M...

03/19/2021

Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard, Greater Portland Council of Governments Director of Innovation and Resilience Andrew Butcher, and Neha Desaraju from the Sunrise Movement discuss how the public Postal Service can help address our future environmental and other community needs.

Moderated by Susan Harley, Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

03/19/2021

Interim Executive Director of the Democracy Initiative Jennifer Lamson, NAACP Washington Bureau Director Hilary Shelton, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President Melanie Campbell discuss the role that the future public Postal Service can have on securing our democratic rights.

Moderated by Susan Harley, Public Citizen's Congress Watch division.

03/18/2021

Donald Cohen, Executive Director of In the Public Interest, discusses motives behind the privatization of numerous government services, and how corporate interests conflict with the public's.

Moderated by Chastity Murphy, Policy Analyst Lead at The Appeal

03/18/2021

Deputy Director of the LPE Project Raúl Carrillo, Manager of the ACLU Systemic Equality Campaign Rakim Brooks, and Take on Wall Street Director Porter McConnell address the need for and the potential for expanded postal financial services in the U.S.

Moderated by Chastity Murphy, Policy Analyst Lead at The Appeal

03/17/2021

Economist at the Economic Policy Institute Monique Morrissey and APWU - The American Postal Workers Union Legislative Director Judy Beard analyze what has led the U.S. postal system to its current situation and laid out the steps necessary to begin building the public Postal Service of the future.

Moderator is Ericka Taylor from Take on Wall Street.

03/17/2021

Opening remarks from actor and activist APWU - The American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, Public Citizen President Robert Weissman, The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Vice President Josh Gray (on behalf of NCBCP President Melanie Campbell), and actor/activist Danny Glover.

03/16/2021

People’s Postal Summit – Making of the People’s Postal Agenda starts this afternoon. We have an exciting agenda and, in case you haven't already registered, we will post the day's proceedings here at the end of the day.

We are a broad coalition of national, state and local organizations representing people from many different walks of life that have come together to form A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service.

02/21/2021

The 33 Senators aren't the only ones!

Maine Sen. Angus King and 32 other senators are pressing Postmaster General DeJoy about ongoing, widespread mail delays.

02/18/2021

We are so proud of work that A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service partner organizations and members are doing to build pressure to save the Post Office. It's working!