Want to save the USPS? Stop DFA Now!

Stop the Bleeding: It’s Time to Freeze the Rates and Save the USPS

Over the past two years, the USPS has spiraled deeper into debt—racking up $16 billion in losses—despite former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s highly touted “Delivering for America” (DFA) plan. What was promised as a bold transformation has become a slow-motion train wreck, pushing away the very mailers who’ve kept the USPS alive: business-class marketing mailers.

Marketing mail is not a burden to the Postal Service—it’s the economic backbone. But under DFA, rising postage rates and the gutting of key incentives (like Destination Entry discounts) have driven mail volumes down, crippled logistics efficiency, and pushed reliable, cost-effective mail campaigns out of reach for countless businesses and nonprofits.

Enough is Enough

A new grassroots campaign is gaining traction: “Freeze the Rates” is calling on Congress and the USPS Board of Governors to immediately halt the DFA plan and chart a new, smarter path forward—one that restores trust, stabilizes pricing, and protects the integrity of the mailstream for consumers and companies alike.

From our Friends at NAPM

“Keep US Posted” has set up a new campaign directed at Congress with the call to “Freeze the Rates” following Postmaster General DeJoy’s welcome departure. The goal “is to generate messages to Congress to urge the next Postmaster General to pause the failed Delivering for America plan and cancel the rate increase scheduled for July to assess the negative impact of the plan so far and chart a new course. Please click thru to learn more: https://www.keepusposted.org/

Your Voice Matters—Right Now

The campaign begins with a unified message. Industry leaders have crafted a form letter addressed to the USPS Board and members of Congress, demanding an immediate pause to DFA, a freeze on rate hikes, and a transparent reassessment of how the USPS is being managed.

https://mobilize4change.org/bE5RoEI

This is your chance to stand up for common sense, fiscal responsibility, and the future of the mailing industry. If we don’t act now, the damage will be permanent. Let’s stop the bleeding. Let’s freeze the rates. And let’s save the USPS—while we still have it!

Your Personal Letter to Congress

The link above provides a pre-written letter, similar to the one below. Additionally, you can use the following letter as a start for your personal communication with lawmakers and policymakers. Thanks for helping us save the USPS and the entire private industry that serves it !!!

Chairman James Comer
Ranking Member Gerald Connolly
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Chairman Rand Paul
Ranking Member Gary Peters
Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee

 

Gentlemen,

The USPS Board just approved a yet another disastrous postage rate increase, while simultaneously eliminating entry discounts that are critical to business class mailers.

Worst of all, the USPS Board is doing this to continue paying for former PM DeJoy’s disastrous Delivering for America plan. The DFA changes and rate hikes are NOT improving service and deliverability by streamlining the USPS and taking maximum advantage of private sector capabilities. Rather the USPS Board continues to substantially raise postage costs, bloat the USPS infrastructure, and create new complexities across the board for both consumers and business mailers alike. In short, the USPS Board is actively trying to eliminate entire segments of private industry that have been successfully serving the USPS, consumers and mailers for nearly 30 years.

Despite the enactment of the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, the USPS incurred losses exceeding $16 billion over two years because of these rate hikes and Dejoy’s ill conceived DFA plan.

I am personally adding my voice to this initiative, and asking you to take solid, decisive action on behalf of the postal industry and consumers, by denying the latest excessive rate hikes, denying the latest entry discount reductions, and denying the service network disruptions being called for by the USPS Board and targeted for July 2025 implementation.

The mail service exists to deliver MAIL, and business class marketing mail helps keep the entire USPS solvent.

Don’t let the current USPS Board kill the goose that lays that golden egg.

Respectfully submitted.

(your name)
(your title)
(your company)
(your contact information)