In the lead-up to the presidential election, many progressive groups and politicians were hyper-focused on defending the US Postal Service (USPS), as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy slowed service (and thus potentially delayed ballots). Now that the election has passed, there’s been less attention both on the institution and the man at its helm. But the problems inside the USPS are still mounting, as details of DeJoy’s new ten-year plan — “the largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation,” according to the Washington Post — become public.

The only way to begin to defend the post office is to fire DeJoy.

The USPS is a national treasure, one of the few institutions we can be unequivocally proud of. It reaches and serves everyone in the United States, regardless of race, age, gender, or geography. Whether someone lives in New York City or an unincorporated town, the mail gets delivered to them every day, just the same. There’s even a post office in almost every zip code. And the people doing the delivering, sorting, and selling of stamps have been able to depend on these jobs, with good union wages and benefits, to provide for themselves and their families.