How Trump Is Sabotaging The Postal Service

[douglas9]

America’s new postmaster general, a Republican Trump megadonor, is deliberately slowing the mail, U.S. Postal Service union leaders said.

Union leader Jonathan Smith told DCReport that the postmaster, Louis DeJoy, “without a doubt is purposely trying to undermine the system.”

“He wants to disable the Postal Service because Trump has his agenda to stop vote-by-mail by any means necessary,” Smith said. Since court action has been ineffective, “Trump figures he’ll get his hand-picked crony to achieve that objective from within.”

Smith heads the American Postal Workers Union’s Metro New York City Chapter.

Slowing the mails would delay counting votes in November. Trump could claim the election was rife with fraud and try to hang onto power if voters chose Joe Biden as our president.

Trump demonizes voting by mail even though he and many of his White House team previously cast ballots that way. Slowing the mails would delay counting votes in November. That would help Trump claim the election was rife with fraud and try to hang onto power if voters chose Joe Biden as our president.

https://www.dcreport.org/2020/07/29/how-trump-is-sabotaging-the-postal-service/

[samnsara]

1. ...97 days.....97 looooong days..

...but then again its ONLY 97 days..

[LakeArenal]

2. Truthfully, they have been after the post office forever.

Back when you would get ten campaign cards a day in the “mail”, the hypocrisy drove me wild.

Also, my Democrat office in 2018 would not supply yard sign and charged me up to $7 for one when they got them. They felt funds were better elsewhere. To which I thought, we pay $7 for this and it’s not cost effective?

Anyway, please get out the yard signs this round to people in small towns where it is important.

[lagomorph777]

3. Vote as early as possible. Make the early totals completely overwhelming.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. Example...

I am expecting a letter from Jackson, Michigan. I live in the exact same state. The letter was mailed on July 16 I have yet to receive it. It hit the USPS regional distribution center July 24
Says “in transit”. I normally receive letters from this person in 2 days,

My mail person says that her postmaster has told everyone absolutely no overtime if you are not done with your route at quitting time bring the mail back to the post office. In Detroit they have been hit massively by Covid. No new hires...no part timers. Last PRIORITY package I had go through there it took 3 weeks.

They are using the pandemic to weaken the USPS maybe trying to kill it off all together.

[awesomerwb1]

5. Mailed my taxes to an IRS PO Box recently

Mailed my taxes July 14th 2-day priority mail. It took 13 days to get there.

[Blue Owl]

6. And he wonders why people don't like him...

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Go vote in person. Screw the mail if they've screwed it up. Remember, they can't screw up w/ the

mail too much, otherwise, bills won't make it to their intended destinations and bill payers will be late by the millions in getting their statements and in paying their bills. Businesses won't like that one bit and I'm surprised that they (big business) hasn't complained yet, although I suspect that they will before long.

[SeattleVet]

8. The Post Office will be stopping home delivery on some streets near me.

Seattle has closed several miles of streets in a 'Stay Healthy Streets' plan that allows only delivery and residents, along with a mix of pedestrians and bicycles.

Residents on some of those streets recently got the following note from the USPS that it was no longer safe for the letter carriers to drive/deliver on those streets, so people would have to go to a main branch office a few miles away to pick up their mail, on weekdays between 8AM and 4PM. Yeah, that'll work for the people that have to go to work on a regular basis, or the seniors in the neighborhood that get medications delivered by mail, and others that may not be able to make the trip to get their mail.

[douglas9]

9. USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save A Buck

Post offices around the country are slashing their hours—including during the busiest times of day—with little notice as yet another abrupt cost-saving measure, according to interviews with union officials conducted by Motherboard and various local news reports. The USPS had also planned to close some offices entirely with just three weeks’ notice, likely in violation of federal law, but appears to be backtracking.

The sudden changes come as part of a slate of policies instituted by the new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump donor with a history of anti-union practices at his private logistics firm New Breed Logistics, that are ostensibly about fiscal responsibility but have contributed to mail being delayed across the country and have postal workers concerned they’re no longer being allowed to do their jobs. Many postal employees also believe the changes will only make the post office’s financial situation worse.

“A lot of this has been dropped on us with little or no communication,” said Elizabeth Coonan, a steward for the American Postal Workers Union Local 3264 in the Clarksburg, West Virginia area. “The times that they’re slating [the offices] to close is when they do a lot of business.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxq47q/usps-plans-to-slash-hours-at-many-post-offices-hoping-to-save-a-buck