- A major U.S. Postal Service union, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), launched a national television advertising campaign promoting voting by mail.
- The 30-second ad, featuring diverse voters, aims to educate the public on the efficiency and safety of mail voting, starting in Ohio and expanding to other states.
- This initiative comes amidst President Trump's public criticism of mail voting, which he claims is prone to fraud, and his executive orders seeking to curtail it.
- The APWU, representing 200,000 members, clarified that their ad was produced before Trump's latest executive order and is not a direct response, but they oppose politicizing the USPS.
- “It is our position that it is not the job of the postal workers to verify voter eligibility," Union president Jonathan Smith stated. "It is our job to move mail from one destination to the next." He added: "We do not want to be politicized."
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