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August 21st, 2020 
Awake Goy 
APWU, the union of over 200,000 postal workers, is organizing rallies at post offices across America on Tuesday, August 25th, to #SaveThePostOffice. We are calling on all those who support the Post Office and the postal workers who make it run to join us in a massive show of support and demand that Congress act to #SaveThePostOffice.
Since the Coronavirus crisis hit, USPS has become more essential than ever, from delivering life-saving medicine, to sustaining our democracy through mail-in voting. It has also become more endangered than ever, facing a massive budget crisis. Postal workers and the public are united in urging Congress to pass $25 billion in emergency COVID-related relief for USPS.
Through mass public outcry, we’ve begun to roll back Trump’s new appointee Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s most recent plans to reduce service. We need to keep pushing for the $25 billion dollars in funding the USPS desperately needs.
We depend on the mail more than ever – to vote, to get our medicine, to get paid and pay our bills, to run our businesses, and to keep rural America connected. It’s our Constitutional right.
That’s why we’re standing in solidarity with the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), with over 200,000 incredible members, for a day of action to keep the pressure on our elected officials to protect the Postal Service.
The public and the APWU members who serve us every day have three immediate demands of our elected officials and of Postmaster General DeJoy:
- Provide at least $25 billion in immediate support for the Postal Service
- Stop the mail slowdown policies introduced by Postmaster General DeJoy
- Ensure public confidence in voting-by-mail by providing the resources for the most timely delivery of election mail possible
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