AMES, Iowa – United States Postal Service workers held a rally at the post office in Ames to protest plans to privatize the USPS on Sunday.

Jaimee Scala, a Postal Worker and Union President of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 1081, said that a privatized post office would increase costs.

“We’re out here today to make the public aware of the efforts that the administration is trying to privatize the post office and to change the way people get their mail, and it would be not a good thing if it was privatized. It would cost people a lot more money and a lot of the rural communities would be affected.” Scala said.

Scala said she is concerned about the legality of privatizing the post office.

“it’s pretty alarming. I know I’ve been with the post office for 26 years and we’ve had protests before. We’ve had other administrations talk about coming in and privatization and the way this administration has come through and done some things that aren’t legal necessarily. It’s in the Constitution that everybody gets mail delivery. I mean, it doesn’t matter if you live in a mansion or under a bridge, you’re going to get mail delivery.” Scala said.

Sunday’s rally follows a rally in Des Moines earlier in the week and was just one of many happening all across the country.