MI SCR0023

Urges the U.S. Congress to oppose recommendations to privatize the United States Postal Service, citing constitutional authority for Congress to establish post offices and post roads.

States that the USPS operates without taxpayer funding, relying on postage products and services sales while maintaining high approval ratings and universal service.

Highlights the USPS as a major employer with over 500,000 employees and the nation's second-largest employer of military veterans, central to a $1.4 trillion mailing industry.

Warns that privatization would reduce service and increase prices in Michigan's 32 rural counties and other rural areas where delivery is more costly, benefiting private companies over rural communities.

Directs transmission of the resolution to the President, President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and Michigan congressional delegation members.