Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities. The security officers were contracted through multinational private security company Prosegur, according to a Raw Story investigation.
The backdrop is ongoing existential threats to USPS. Since Trump returned to office, the postal doomsday clock has been minutes from midnight.
They say crackdown, we say throwdown
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A time for rude awakenings and standing fast
Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia.
'A True Danger to the Public Post Office', "How many post offices will be closed?" asked one union official. "How many clerks and drivers will lose jobs?"
The Great Postal Heist documents the culture of bullying that developed in the U.S. Postal Service after it was converted from a public service to a public corporation, after the great wildcat strike of 1970.
The Postmaster General’s New Attack on the Mail is a Fig Leaf for Privatization.
"We will not allow Trump's handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to slow down mail delivery, cut hours at post offices, and sabotage the Postal Service," said Bernie Sanders.
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