Rural farmers fought for a decade for the same access to mail that people in the city were getting. And it changed everything #rural #rurallife #ruraltiktok #postoffice #mail

“I hope this podcast really demonstrates that it might be bad now, but it’s been bad in the past and we’ve found our way out of it, and here’s a playbook,” she said. “It’s really going to come down to organizing” matternews.org/culture/word...

October 1866: The Reno Gang throws a 300-pound safe off a moving train. It's the first train robbery in American history. They have absolutely no idea what they've just started. Episode 3 is a wild ride: pod.link/1849228526

Jesse James murdered people and the newspapers called him a hero. Why? Because he wrote his own PR, framed himself as Robin Hood, and the press ate it up. The mythology was manufactured. Episode 3 breaks down how outlaws became legends: pod.link/1849228526

The RNC is now using postmarked on election day as the legal standard But that postmark the thing they're pointing to as proof may already reflect a date one day later than when you actually mailed it #postmark #electionsmatter #election #voting #saveusps

More than 80% of Alaska communities aren't accessible by road. The Post Office uses planes, helicopters, hovercraft to deliver. 87.5 million pounds of mail annually to villages with no other supply chain. This is universal service. Ep 7: pod.link/1849228526

Mail-in voting is not a preference for a lot of people It's the only option #votebymail #saveusps #postoffice #savethepostoffice #usps

Congress made USPS fund healthcare for workers not yet born. Then said USPS was "failing" because of debt. Then spent 16 years doing nothing. Then people organized during COVID and Congress actually fixed it. Why did it take a pandemic? Ep 14: pod.link/1849228526

The Post Office is one of the last pathways to the middle class for people without college degrees. $55,000 average salary vs $32,000 U.S. median. That's a $23,000 premium. If you privatize, you destroy that ladder. Episode 14: pod.link/1849228526

The Reno Brothers thought they were stealing money. They were also creating postal inspectors, the oldest federal law enforcement agency in the country. Nobody asked them to do this. open.substack.com/pub/peopleof...

Folks, if you want to save the USPS, you have to use it. Don't prove the point for them. Protect your packages. Insure them. Adapt to the sabotage effects. But. Have patience with the workers. Keep using them. Please.

The history of westward expansion is usually told through white men on horses. Mary Fields told a different version.

If the Post Office is "failing," why do private carriers use USPS for last-mile delivery in unprofitable areas? Why does Amazon rely on Sunday delivery? Why do UPS and FedEx hand off packages to postal workers? Maybe it's not failing. Ep 7: pod.link/1849228526

Between 2010-2020, USPS cut 88,000 jobs. A 15% reduction in career employees. The workers who remained did more with less. Then management created a two-tier wage system where new hires earn 25% less forever. Episode 12: pod.link/1849228526

1/ 🧵THREAD: In 2006, Congress passed a law requiring USPS to fund healthcare for workers who haven't been born yet. This sounds fake but it's documented. Let me explain the scam

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The Supreme Court heard arguments last Monday in Watson v. RNC, a case that could throw out nearly a million votes before November's midterms There's a piece nobody's covering. It's about the postmark: pod.link/1849228526 #WatsonVRNC

The mail was made slower the postmark was made less reliable and now the argument is that your ballot traveling through a slower less reliably dated system should have arrived faster #votebymail #saveusps #postoffice #savethepostoffice #voting

Who depends on mail-in ballots? ✉️ Elderly, highest turnout & most likely to vote by mail ✉️ Disabled voters, 17% of polling places are accessible ✉️ Military & overseas, 4 million voters ✉️ Native communities, some wait 3+ weeks for mail All now in danger of not counting

The person defending this law in court is Mississippi's Republican Secretary of State #electionsmatter #election #voting #saveusps #votingrights

On March 24, the day after calling mail voting "cheating", Donald Trump voted by mail in the Florida special election. He also voted by mail in the January primary. And in 2020. And 2018. The people who built this case are not actually worried about mail voting #WatsonVRNC

The Supreme Court heard arguments last Monday in Watson v. RNC, a case that could throw out nearly a million votes before November's midterms There's a piece nobody's covering. It's about the postmark: pod.link/1849228526 #WatsonVRNC

It worked for 55 years, and then commercial banking industries spent decades lobbying to kill it, because a nonprofit public bank available in every zip code was competition they did not want. #saveusps #postoffice #savethepostoffice #postalservice #usps

"The five-day grace period isn't a loophole. It's the only honest acknowledgment in our entire election system that USPS is not a vending machine." People of Agency, Breaking News Episode pod.link/1849228526 #WatsonVRNC

There are 2 anti-privatizations resolutions moving through Congress. If your senator hasn't signed on to Senate resolution, call them. Go to usmailnotforsale.org, the coalition doing this work #saveusps #postoffice #savethepostoffice #postalservice #usps

We're a 2 person indie podcast. We don't have a PR team or a budget. What we have is a year of USPS history research and an episode that explains a Supreme Court case that could change how 30 states run elections. If you've listened: share it with 1 person #WatsonVRNC

The same morning oral arguments were being heard Donald Trump stood in Memphis and said quote "Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating." #voting #votebymail #saveusps #savethepostoffice #usps

"The people arguing the mail is too slow are the same people who spent four years making it slower." Watson v. RNC isn't just a voting rights case. It started in 2020 when a they decided that mail voting was a threat and spent years making mail less reliable so they'd have proof

The path forward is not just to save the post office as it is. We need to fight for the post office as it was always supposed to be. Also, tell 3 people. Send them this episode. #saveusps #postoffice #savethepostoffice #postalservice #usps

A ballot from the Navajo Nation to the county recorder takes up to six days. A ballot from Scottsdale takes under 18 hours. Same class of mail. Same Election Day. Same postmark requirement. #WatsonvRNC doesn't just change the law. It changes who gets to vote.

A ruling dropping 4 months before a November's midterm could require 14 states to rewrite their election laws Federal law requires absentee ballots to go out to the military and overseas 45 days before Election Day which means mid-September #voting #votebymail #saveusps #postoffice

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Quick postal mechanics: USPS formalized that a postmark reflects when the hub processed your mail, not when you mailed it. The only way to guarantee a same-day postmark: hand your ballot to a postal worker at the counter and ask for a hand-cancel. Almost no voter knows this. Please share.

The people who depend most on mail voting aren't who you might think. Elderly voters. Disabled voters. Active military and overseas citizens. Native American voters. The five-day grace period isn't a convenience feature. For a lot of people, it's the margin between their vote counting and not.

Save the post office #saveusps #postoffice #savethepostoffice #postalservice #usps

Fun fact about the party suing to eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods: 2000 recount, the RNC went to each county in FL to count late-arriving military mail ballots. Those late ballots gave Bush his 739-vote margin. They are now arguing to SCOTUS that those ballots should never have been counted.

🧵 There's a piece of Watson v. RNC that almost no one is covering. It's not about the law. It's about how the mail actually works. A thread. 👇

The people arguing the mail is too slow are the same people who spent 4 years making it slower #saveusps #votebymail #postoffice #savethepostoffice #usps

The VA ships 120 million veteran prescriptions a year through USPS. Under private carriers, every one of those shipments picks up a residential surcharge of $5-7 per package. For veterans on fixed incomes. Per shipment. Every time.

FedEx and UPS do not deliver to military APO/FPO addresses. At all. The only carrier that gets mail to deployed service members is USPS. That disappears too.

Amazon told USPS they "abruptly walked away at the eleventh hour" after a year of good-faith contract negotiations. What USPS introduced mid-negotiation: a new bidding platform that opens their delivery network to outside competitors. Including the company the Postmaster General used to work for.

The same 2006 law that manufactured 87% of USPS's financial losses also contained Section 102. Section 102 explicitly banned USPS from launching any new nonpostal services. Banking. Digital infrastructure. All of it. Lobbied for by banks and carriers who didn't want the competition.

Project 2025 doesn't have a dedicated USPS chapter. What it has, woven throughout: manufacture financial pressure, install sympathetic leadership, remove regulatory protections, present privatization as the rescue. We are watching that blueprint run in real time.

Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could throw out nearly a million votes before the 2026 midterms #election #electionsmatter #voting #votebymail #saveusps

The new Postmaster General spent 16 years on the FedEx board and held $8.5 million in FedEx stock when he was appointed to run their biggest public competitor. His first major act: a bidding platform that also opens USPS's delivery network to FedEx.

"Less than a year from now, the Postal Service will be unable to deliver the mail if we maintain the status quo." That's not a critic. That's the Postmaster General. Under oath. March 17, 2026.

USPS has not received a single dollar of taxpayer funding since 1982. It is the only government agency in the country required to fully fund itself from its own revenue. And it's been doing that while being buried under constraints no private business would ever survive.

Link in bio. Monday the Supreme Court heard arguments in Watson v. RNC, a case that could throw out nearly a million legally cast ballots before the 2026 midterms. The same day, the president stood in Memphis and called mail-in voting ”cheating.” Public records show he voted by mail that same week.