Rural America is a topic that addresses the unique challenges and issues faced by rural communities across the country. Recent trends have highlighted disparities in access to healthcare, education, and economic opportunities between rural and urban areas. Petitions under this topic focus on improving infrastructure, expanding broadband access, and supporting small businesses in rural regions.
One petition with thousands of signatures calls for increased funding for rural hospitals to prevent closures and ensure healthcare access for residents. Another petition advocates for expanding broadband internet in rural areas to bridge the digital divide and promote economic growth.
Join the movement to support rural America by exploring the petitions and taking action. Your involvement can help address the specific needs of rural communities and create a more equitable society for all.
Save the Postal system. My father in law was a postal worker for over 30 years and he loved his job. Postal system is very important to all of us. We need our mail delivered and sent to!
USPS must remain an independent agency. This non-partisan agency belongs to all of us; not just to a President or political party. Dismantling the USPS with the primary purpose of preventing voting by mail is an attack on the Constitution, veterans, democracy and racial equality. USPS has always enjoyed high approval ratings amongst the American public and they must receive the funding that they need. A large percentage of USPS are made up of veterans, women and minorities. Senior citizens, people with disabilities, rural businesses and communities are entirely dependent on USPS which remains the only mail service that delivers to every address in the US. USPS cannot and should not be viewed as a casualty of “financial efficiencies.” It is a public service and it deserves proper funding to fully operate for ALL American people.
I need my mail. My rural delivery has been diminished over the past decade and it's cost money, time and emotions to our local small communities. Please keep our mail delivery and ourvote by mail options available and efficient and trustworthy.
My one-woman business uses usps to sell inexpensive, handmade goods. If USPS goes away, shipping costs will dwarf the cost of my items and I’ll have to shut down my source of income that I’ve spent 10 years developing into something substantial.
Not only is the postal service a promise to the American people, but I prefer to send letters to my friends and family. I handwrite letters to my loved ones across the world who I care about. Large companies cannot reach all corners of the earth. The US Postal Service is how I wrote to my penpals when I was younger. i still end packages and cards, and the postal service is vital to the integrity of the United States government. My first love and I wrote letters from across the country for five years in high school and college.
I will repeat what others have said because it's a fact. There are MANY who rely on the postal service for communication necessity. It's not just about sending and receiving mail, it's about connection. My parents love receiving cards in the mail. The also love sending them. They and I also rely on the postal service to receive monthly prescriptions. Sure it could be privatized but that would defeat the original purpose of the system. It was NEVER supposed to be for profit. The government shouldn't be a for profit organization. It SHOULD take care of we the people with the money WE GIVE to run it. It's not their money, it's ours.
I have worked with many retired Postal Service employees. All of them are amazing individuals who take so much pride in their work. They've all spoken about the United States Postal Service as a calling. What's being done is degrading to these individuals, and their families; and it weakens the communities they proudly served.
Our postal service was a promise made to the American people that they would always have a letter service to teach one another. It was not created to make a profit, it is not and never should be a capitalistic enterprise. Many rural communities receive their drugs through the postal service, I do myself. The added burden of the cost of a private shipping service would deny those of us who do this the affordable medication. The postal service needs improvement not destroyed.
What will it take for politicans to put people, not profit, first? The Postal Service was already understaffed - doing this is yet another obvious effort to make people think that public services aren’t worth their tax dollars (because you cut their funding and therefore service is suffering!!!) to allow private businesses to rake in record profits. 77 million Americans elected this administration with the understanding you would LOWER PRICES by fighting corporate and political greed, and the obvious efforts to do the opposite are going to be responsible for death and suffering like we haven’t seen since the Gilded Age. Stop this, or enjoy the blood on your hands. As a Christian I am sincerely frightened for the plight of my fellow Americans and for the poor and working class people we are obligated to defend and provide for. The dismantling of our essential public services is unethical. I am equally concerned for the souls of the people making these decisions - the Bible warned us against greed, and siding with corporations against the everyday working American can be nothing but a sign that the so-called Christians in the administration have abandoned not only God’s explicit instructions but cannot even be trusted to adhere to basic moral standards. “Delete the postal service and privatize it without thought as to how that will obviously be taken advantage of by the for-profit businesses in question” is so neglectful of the people’s needs as to be malicious. With thinking like this I don’t know how anyone facilitating these decisions is going to end up anywhere but hell. Oh, and political ruin. Yeah. We freaking hate this and no amount of cult loyalty is gonna save you from the consequences of this anti public good agenda, spiritual or otherwise.