American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein says the U.S. Postal Service remains threatened by some who want to privatize it. And he says the people have to join the union in fending off privatization so America can retain universal postal service.

Dimondstein says preserving postal service for the American people is not and should not be a partisan political issue.

 "We got a lot of people around the country on both sides of the political aisle who look at the post office - as they should - as a non-partisan issue. Something that the people of this country have a right to and need.

And let's face it. If postal services go private, if postal services are degraded in many cases the areas that get hit the hardest are rural America.

And the people of rural America are demanding from their representatives, from either or any party, that they want postal services that can produce. That can get those medicines there on time, that can get those packages ordered online there on time.

And that'll only happen if we have a good public postal service. A good, publicly owned infrastructure and the commitment to universal service that's ensconced in the constitution."