America’s Postmaster General Louis Dejoy introduced a new plan to reform the United States Postal Service and critics have called for privatization. The local mailman’s employer has managed to lose more than $90 billion since 2006.
Even today, millions of Americans count on the Postal Service to receive prescription medication, vote and pay bills. If deliveries stopped tomorrow, millions of prescriptions–some of them life-saving–would go undelivered. And some municipalities are so small that voting by mail is residents’ only option.