CHRISTOPHER W. SHAW, christophershaw.ca@gmail.com, @chris_w_shaw
Shaw is the author of the book First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat. He wrote the piece “DeJoy Slows DeMail” in the current issue of the print-only Capitol Hill Citizen.
He said today: “President-elect Donald J. Trump has confirmed the incoming administration’s interest in exploring privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Privatization would repudiate the Postal Service’s public service mission. The public postal system exists to serve all, delivering such critical items as medications and lab tests, not to turn a profit. No profit-making company would provide universal service to all corners of the nation on a daily basis. Millions of Americans receive daily deliveries because the Postal Service is not a for-profit company. In fact, such private delivery companies as FedEx and the United Parcel Service (UPS) use the Postal Service to reach remote addresses that are not cost-efficient. Privatization would disenfranchise those people whom the profit motive will not serve.”