ORLANDO, Fla.—The Postal Workers and the Rural Letter Carriers (NRLCA) have launched complementary campaigns against the GOP Donald Trump regime’s threat to privatize the Postal Service.
The NRLCA, the smaller of the two, went first, with a mass march of its 500 convention delegates, plus supporters, through downtown Orlando, Fla., on August 18.
Speakers at the ensuing evening rally, including union President Don Maston and Postal Workers President Mark Dimondstein, blasted the Trump regime’s potential preliminary moves towards privatization: Firing the entire Board of Governors of the USPS, and parking the Postal Service within the corporate-oriented Commerce Department.
Those moves are preludes to Trump’s real goal, selling profitable parts of the Postal Service to Wall Street and abandoning the rest of the U.S., especially “unprofitable” rural routes. Those routes serve 51 million people.
