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A resolution expressing opposition to privatizing the U.S. Postal Service (H.Res.993). For over 240 years, the United States Postal Service and our dedicated postal workforce have performed the essential government function of “providing postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people.” In furtherance of this mission, the Postal Service and its more than 500,000 clerks, letter carriers, mail handlers, and other employees deliver the mail to over 157 million residential and business customers six days a week nationwide. However, in June of 2018, the Trump Administration released a government reform and reorganization plan entitled “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century.” Regrettably, this proposal recommends a massive restructuring of the Postal Service and “its future conversion from a Government agency into a privately-held corporation.” This resolution pushes back against the Administration’s proposal with clear examples of the importance of a national postal system for our nation.