APWU President Mark Dimondstein Responds to Trump’s Truth Social Post

On September 15, former President Donald Trump said that the Postal Service could not be trusted to deliver election mail, an attack on the 650,000 dedicated public servants that make up the United States Postal Service.

Donald Trump, when President, planned to privatize the Postal Service and sell it off to his friends on Wall Street. In 2020, when postal workers were risking our lives to keep the country connected, Trump called us “a joke.” He spun dangerous and baseless lies about postal workers and the 2020 elections.

In 2020, postal workers accepted, sorted, transported and timely delivered 69 million ballots as part of our public service. For generations, the Postal Service has helped millions of people safely and securely vote by mail – no matter what party or candidate they may support.

Trump is once again spouting lies about the Postal Service in an attempt to dissuade people from voting by mail. This is voter suppression, plain and simple.

Postal workers take seriously our commitment to the serving the public – the entire public, no matter their political convictions. The public should have every confidence that postal workers will once again stand with the people and are ready to timely and securely deliver election mail again this fall.