Your Constitutional Duty: Fund the U.S. Postal Service

Your Constitutional Duty: Fund the U.S. Postal Service Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly directs Congress to establish Post Offices and Post Roads, yet this vital national institution faces an existential crisis. As Postmaster General David Steiner warned the House Oversight subcommittee, the United States Postal Service is on track to exhaust its cash reserves within 12 months, threatening a collapse of service to millions of American households and businesses. The Postal Service is a public trust, delivering essential medicines, ballots, financial notices, and goods six days a week to every address in the country regardless of geography. However, congressional restrictions—such as a debt ceiling frozen at 1992 levels—have severely constrained the agency while it adapts to changing mail volumes and rising operating costs. Relying on temporary financial waivers or payment defaults is not a strategy; it is an abdication of constitutional duty. Allowing the Postal Service to degrade or privatize sacrifices equitable service for rural and underserved communities in favor of private profit margins. Congress must fulfill its mandate. I urge you to lift the outdated borrowing limit, reform structural financial liabilities, and allocate direct, sustainable funding to preserve the Postal Service for generations to come.