Protests To Support US Postal Service Saturday In Kane County

KANE COUNTY, IL — Residents in Elgin and Sugar Grove are set to demonstrate Saturday in support of the U.S. Postal Service amid clashes between Democratic lawmakers and President Donald Trump’s administration over proposed changes to the service.

Protests are scheduled to start at 11 a.m. at the downtown Elgin Post Office and the Sugar Grove facility. The protests in Kane County are just two of more than 700 demonstrations planned for Saturday across the U.S.

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Organizers are urging people to wear masks, bring hand sanitizer and practice social distancing during the demonstrations. The organizer of the Sugar Grove protest is asking people to meet at Frontage Road and Cross Street.

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Democratic U.S. Reps. Lauren Underwood, Bill Foster and Sean Casten spoke outside Aurora's Kenneth M. Christy Post Office on Tuesday to demand Trump reverse his administration’s new changes at the U.S. Post Office.

Trump appointed Louis DeJoy — who was a top donor to his 2016 presidential campaign — as postmaster general in June, in a move that Democrats have said could signal the end of the postal service.

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Since his appointment, DeJoy has eliminated overtime for postal employees, ordered the removal of mail-sort machines and reorganized USPS leadership roles, arguing the measures were necessary to make the postal service financially solvent.

Foster said it is “disgraceful that President Trump and his political appointees have been deliberately trying to weaken and delay the USPS in the run-up to the national election.”

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DeJoy announced Tuesday that he will suspend many of the new changes until after the Nov. 3 general election “to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail.”

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