Rally to Save the Postal Service
Saturday, August 22nd, 11:00 a.m.
The United States Postal Service is constitutionally mandated to serve all Americans, whoever we are and wherever we live. The postal system serves us in useful and critical ways that no other public or private organization has duplicated: it picks up and delivers local, national, and international correspondence, bills, checks, prescription medications, food, clothing, greeting cards, magazines, books--and absentee and other mail-in ballots.
The post office was created as a nonpartisan agency. Funding it adequately, allowing postal employees to work overtime rather than leaving mail and packages sitting in the station at the end of the day, and not removing sorting machines are all essential to the functioning of our nation and its institutions, especially during a pandemic that is keeping millions of Americans socially distanced and away from enclosed spaces, including polling sites.
President Trump and Postmaster General DeJoy should be supporting the health and well-being of our postal system. Public protest, an American tradition and a mainstay of our treasured democracy, persuaded the Postmaster General to walk back some of his harmful edicts, but he said they're only temporarily suspended, not reversed. Demand DeJoy's removal from his position. We deserve a better Postmaster General, one who believes in the agency that's in his or her care and will help it thrive.
Join a grassroots, neighbor-led, peaceful, non-violent, socially distanced, masked rally in support of our postal system on Saturday, August 22nd, at 11:00 a.m. local time. The number of participants is limited because of the pandemic, so for the rally at the Kensington post office, sign up here.
Rallies have been scheduled at hundreds and hundreds of post offices. You can see a complete list of them on the map here.
Signs and slogans are posted here.
Location
Kensington Post Office
419 McDonald Avenue
between Church Avenue and Albemarle Road
Kensington, Brooklyn