A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Congress should take all appropriate measures to ensure that the United States Postal Service remains an independent establishment of the Federal Government and is not subject to privatization.

Protects the U.S. Postal Service’s status as an independent federal establishment. S. Res. 147 says Congress should take all appropriate measures to keep the Postal Service from being privatized and to preserve its self-funding, universal delivery network that reaches about 168 million addresses and employs over 630,000 people, including nearly 73,000 veterans. The resolution highlights the USPS’s role in a $1.9 trillion mailing industry and warns that privatization would raise prices, cut services—especially in rural areas—and threaten the e-commerce infrastructure.