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2025-03-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-03-27
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Government Operations and Politics
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This resolution says the Senate believes Congress should take steps to keep the U.S. Postal Service as an independent part of the federal government and prevent it from being sold off or privatized. It argues that the Postal Service is an important public service that reaches every part of the country, supports jobs and businesses, helps veterans, and should stay affordable and available for everyone, especially people in rural areas.
- The resolution says the Postal Service is a government service required by the Constitution and operates on its own revenue, not taxpayer money.
- It points out that the Postal Service and the larger mailing industry support millions of jobs and deliver mail and packages to more than 168 million business and home addresses every day.
- It says privatizing the Postal Service could lead to higher prices, fewer services, and harm rural communities the most.
- It also warns that privatization could damage e-commerce and weaken an important part of the country’s infrastructure.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 147 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. RES. 147
Expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should take all
appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service
remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is
not subject to privatization.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 27, 2025
Mr. Peters (for himself, Mr. Sullivan, Ms. Collins, Ms. Murkowski, Ms.
Hassan, and Mr. Tillis) submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should take all
appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service
remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is
not subject to privatization.
Whereas the United States Postal Service is a constitutionally mandated service
per article I, section 8, clause 7 of the Constitution of the United
States;
Whereas the United States Postal Service is a self-sustaining, independent
establishment that does not receive taxpayer funding and relies solely
on revenue derived from the sale of postal services and products;
Whereas the United States Postal Service and its more than 630,000 employees are
at the center of the $1,900,000,000,000 mailing industry, which employs
more than 7,900,000 Americans;
Whereas the United States Postal Service serves the needs of customers at more
than 168,000,000 business and residential addresses every day, maintains
an affordable and universal network, and connects the rural, suburban,
and urban communities of the United States;
Whereas the United States Postal Service is consistently the highest rated
agency of the Federal Government in nonpartisan opinion polls;
Whereas the United States Postal Service employs nearly 73,000 military veterans
and is one of the largest employers of veterans in the United States;
Whereas postal employees are dedicated public servants who do more than process
and deliver the mail, including serving as the eyes and ears of their
communities and often responding first in situations involving health,
safety, and crime in their communities;
Whereas privatization of the United States Postal Service would result in higher
prices and reduced services for its customers, especially in rural
communities; and
Whereas privatization of the United States Postal Service would jeopardize the
booming e-commerce sector and cripple a major part of the critical
infrastructure of the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that Congress should
take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal
Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government
and not subject to privatization.
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