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Support USPS x Incarcerated Youth!
We are asking for donations of sheets of stamps so that we can give stamps to young people incarcerated across Illinois so they can write letters!
We are asking for donations of sheets of stamps so that we can give stamps to young people incarcerated across Illinois so they can write letters!
While incarcerated young people use USPS frequently, they have to use their own money to mail letters. And with COVID restricting in-person visits, communication with friends and family is more essential than ever.
Stamp donations can be mailed to our offices:
Liberation Library
c/o In These Times
2040 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago IL 60625
Liberation Library
c/o In These Times
2040 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago IL 60625
Today's hearing with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was the first step — but Congress must do more to hold him to account for USPS delays & sabotage. #SaveUSPS Thread⬇️ (1/x)
cnn.com/2020/08/20/pol…
cnn.com/2020/08/20/pol…
DeJoy has already caused enormous damage that he has no intention of reversing. And there were no questions about his financial conflicts of interest and no examination of how a GOP donor became Postmaster General without proper vetting. (2/x)
As more alarming details are brought to light, DeJoy and anyone else responsible for sabotaging the Postal Service and our ability to vote by mail must be held accountable. (3/x)
As Trump actively works to harm the USPS and the right of all Americans to express their voice this November, I’m reminded of another time I came face-to-face with how communities are hurt by government inaction and lack of access to the post #SaveUSPS #SaveThePostOffice
Back in 2014, I was still a new-ish organizer with @SierraClub’s @OhioBeyondCoal team. The legal folks on our team alerted us that AEP, then owner of the Gavin coal plant, had filed with Ohio EPA (OEPA) to update Gavin’s water permit.
Gavin is one of the country's largest and most notorious coal plants. After years of poisoning the local community, AEP spent $20 million to buy out the village of Cheshire. The village de-imcoporated and AEP demolished the buildings of those who left
theatlantic.com/business/archi…
theatlantic.com/business/archi…
Friends - you know what I’m doing today? Driving to each of our post offices to take photos of the boxes. Can you? Let’s collect the photos & send them to @RepJayapal #SaveThePostOffice #SaveTheUSPS #SaveUSPS
We are getting ready to go. #Bo is all in. He was super excited a few minutes so before I picked up the camera :) #SaveTheUSPS
Now he’s excited! #SaveUSPS 
USPS delivered about 800 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s last year. It delivered about 2.5 billion pieces of first class mail the week before Christmas.
Even if *every one* of roughly 130 million voters mailed their ballots this fall, USPS could handle it.
Even if *every one* of roughly 130 million voters mailed their ballots this fall, USPS could handle it.
The only thing that gets in USPS’ way are having mail sorting machines yanked from post office hubs and hours cut back for mail carriers so delivery slows down dramatically - the kind of things Trump’s man at USPS, Louis DeJoy, is doing.
“A majority of states won’t accept mail-in ballots unless they arrive by Election Day, even if they’re postmarked prior to Election Day.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
While Trump uses his crooked Postmaster General to try and throw an election, the Veterans are in the crossfire.
I personally depend on the @USPS to deliver 8 medications. Here is my story and I know I speak for all Vets.
🇺🇸Please help amplify🇺🇸
#SaveTheUSPS #HonorAVet
I personally depend on the @USPS to deliver 8 medications. Here is my story and I know I speak for all Vets.
🇺🇸Please help amplify🇺🇸
#SaveTheUSPS #HonorAVet
Without these medications I can go from functional person with disabilities to completely nonfunctional.
Some Vets without their meds can be a danger to themselves & possibly others.
We must fight to have #LouisDeJoy removed as Postmaster General!
#SaveTheUSPS #HonorAVet
Some Vets without their meds can be a danger to themselves & possibly others.
We must fight to have #LouisDeJoy removed as Postmaster General!
#SaveTheUSPS #HonorAVet
For the trolls that say I don’t speak for all Vets fair enough. Some where lucky enough to come out perfectly healthy and don’t rely on meds.
That’s a blessing but for those of us that rely on meds to live life in normalcy after the fact we agree.
That’s a blessing but for those of us that rely on meds to live life in normalcy after the fact we agree.
Americans take the US Postal Service for granted. Having lived in two countries where mail is chronically unreliable (to put it diplomatically), I do not.
Here are a few stories about my misadventures with mail in Russia and Ukraine.
Here are a few stories about my misadventures with mail in Russia and Ukraine.
The first time I lived in Russia, ten years ago, my then-boyfriend (now husband) sent me a Valentine's Day card. It never made it to me at my university address; eventually, it was sent back to him as undeliverable after more than two months of globe trotting.
I tried to send postcards; like many Russian state services the post office keeps a ridiculous schedule and it took me a few tries to find it open. Triumphant, I waited in line and asked for some international stamps, only to be told they weren't sold at that time/day.
In the spirit of #SaveUSPS, I found a bunch of these in an old lulz folder of mine.
Sharing them again in case you haven't seen them before.
Sharing them again in case you haven't seen them before.
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Another, for the Silent Hill fans.
The reason #SaveUSPS is trending is bc of reporting that Trump threatened to veto all Stimulus Plan funding if there was $ for USPS-in favor of the higher shipping rates of Amazon etc.. which he believes (incorrectly) will 'right' their budget.
WTF??
washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
WTF??
washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
2-"[USPS] has withered during the pandemic. The USPS needs an infusion of money, and President Trump has blocked potential emergency funding for the agency that employs around 600,000 workers, repeating instead the false claim that higher rates for Internet shipping companies
3-"Amazon, FedEx and UPS would right the service’s budget. Trump threatened to veto the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or Cares Act, if the legislation contained any money directed to bail out the postal agency, according to a senior
.@USPS is the only organization in America mandated to prefund 15years of retirement money for its employees. Imagine hiring someone and after 3 months. You put 225K in a retirement account for them. #SaveUSPS
This is an opportunity reverse the mandated requirement 4 @USPS. The bill ought to reverse ridiculous law & allow a loan fr retirement funds that can be repaid by the @USTreasury in the case of any National emergency. The repayment in full mandated at the end of such emergency
Doing this will make @USPS solvent for the next 25 years
