Chuck Zlatkin on The Fight to Save USPS

We speak with Chuck Zlatkin, a longtime postal worker who is currently the Legislative and Political Director for New York Metro Area Postal Union, the local affiliate of the American Postal Workers Union. The U.S. postal service is older than country itself and provides universal service to every address in the country. While people may not write as many letters as they used to, the Postal Service remains essential to small and large businesses, to elderly who receive their prescriptions by mail, to voters who vote by mail and many others. However, with President Trump and Elon Musk indiscriminately wielding their wrecking ball across the federal government, recent comments by Trump have many concerned that he may try to privatize the post office and dismantled the services we’ve become accustomed to.

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