WASHINGTON—From Bangor, Maine, to Key West, Fla., and from Los Angeles to Chicago to Fairbanks, Alaska, to Waikaloa, Hawaii, the Postal Workers (APWU) and tens of thousands of their allies are rallied on March 20 against a Donald Trump regime scheme to privatize the Postal Service—a plan an investment bank’s study reveals would net Wall Street $81 billion while leaving customers facing huge price hikes.
The first step in the potential privatization plan occurred several weeks ago when Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agreed to let multibillionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) twerps into USPS headquarters in D.C. to rummage through its computer files and other sensitive data as the first step towards selling off the Postal Service.
And if the 150 APWU-led “The U.S. Mail Is Not For Sale!” rallies and congressional pressure don’t stop Musk’s DOGE depredations at the Postal Service, “the moment” his raiders start snatching confidential personnel files and similar data from the USPS files, the union plans to sue to stop them.
“Privatization shifts workers’ dollars from the public good to the corporate sector investor class,” APWU President Mark Dimondstein said on March 10, announcing the upcoming events. “It’s not just us, but there’s a fast and furious effort” by Trump and his handler, Musk, “to hollow out the government for enriching billionaires and launching a coup.”
Try $81 billion, just from selling off “excess” buildings and land….
Just how much Wall Street would garner from privatizing the USPS—which would also endanger the jobs of its 640,000 unionized workers—was disclosed in a special study by Wells Fargo Securities, the bank’s investment arm, in late February.
