Internal #USPS Documents Outline Plans To Hobble #Mail 📨 Sorting
'This Will Slow Mail Processing,' A Union Official Wrote On One Of The Documents Announcing The Machine Removals 😟
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'This Will Slow Mail Processing,' A Union Official Wrote On One Of The Documents Announcing The Machine Removals 😟
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"The United States Postal Service proposed removing 20 percent of letter sorting machines it uses around the country before revising the plan weeks later to closer to 15 percent of all machines, meaning 502 will be taken out of service, according to documents obtained by... 
... Motherboard outlining the agency’s plans. #USPS workers told Motherboard this will slow their ability to sort #mail."
"One of the documents also suggests these changes were in the works before #LouisDeJoy, a top #Trump donor and #Republican fundraiser, became...
"One of the documents also suggests these changes were in the works before #LouisDeJoy, a top #Trump donor and #Republican fundraiser, became...
... #PostMasterGeneral because it is dated May 15, a month before #DeJoy assumed office and only nine days after the Board of Governors announced his selection."
"The title of the presentation, as well as language used in the notice to union officials, undermines the Postal...
"The title of the presentation, as well as language used in the notice to union officials, undermines the Postal...
... Service’s narrative that the organization is simply “moving equipment around its network” to optimize processing, as spokesperson Dave Partenheimer told Motherboard on Thursday. The May document clearly calls the initiative an “equipment reduction.” It makes no mention of...
... the machines being moved to other facilities. And the notice to union officials repeatedly uses the same phrase. Multiple sources within the postal service told Motherboard they have personally witnessed the machines, which cost millions of dollars, being destroyed or...
... because he doesn’t want #MailInBallots to be properly handled and counted- is intentionally interfering in the #USPS’s operations to achieve his desired ends." 😡
“Donald #Trump* made clear that he is dismantling the Postal Service so he can steal the #election by...
“Donald #Trump* made clear that he is dismantling the Postal Service so he can steal the #election by...
... making it harder to #votebymail,” said Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, a signatory of the letter. “Removing 20 percent of the Postal Service’s sorting and processing equipment looks like another part of his plan to bulldoze a vital American institution just to cling to power.” 😡
"The #TrumpAdministration is launching an all-out war on the U.S. Postal Service,” said West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, another letter signatory. “Several weeks ago we learned they had unexpectedly announced closures of several West Virginia post offices. Then we learned...
... of their plans to change the regulations surrounding the first class mail and election mail. Now we’re hearing reports that the post office...
... is removing sorting machines and reducing capacity a few months before an #election where we’ll see more #MailInBallots than ever before. This is insane." 😟
"Multiple sources within the postal service told Motherboard they have personally witnessed the machines, which cost millions of dollars, 💰 being destroyed or thrown into a dumpster." 😡
#USPS #mailedit #VoteByMail 📨 #MailInVoting #MailInBallots #TrumpAdministration #Trump
#USPS #mailedit #VoteByMail 📨 #MailInVoting #MailInBallots #TrumpAdministration #Trump
Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms
President Trump’s Furious Objection To Mail-In Balloting And A New Trump-Allied Postmaster General Are Raising Fears About The Election And The Postal Service
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#VoteByMail #USPS #PostalService
President Trump’s Furious Objection To Mail-In Balloting And A New Trump-Allied Postmaster General Are Raising Fears About The Election And The Postal Service
nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/…
#VoteByMail #USPS #PostalService
"Mr. Casselli and his 1,600 members have been in a state of high alert since #LouisDeJoy, a #Republican megadonor and an ally of President #Trump’s, took over as #postmastergeneral in May. Overtime was eliminated, prompting backups. Seven mail-sorting machines were removed...
... from a nearby processing center in West Philadelphia, causing further delays. Now, post offices are being told to open later and close during lunch.
“I have some customers banging on my people’s doors: ‘Open up!’” Mr. Casselli said. “I’ve never seen that in my whole...
“I have some customers banging on my people’s doors: ‘Open up!’” Mr. Casselli said. “I’ve never seen that in my whole...
... 35-year postal career.”
"For Ms. Brownworth, who was paralyzed four years ago, the mail is her lifeline, delivering prescriptions and checks and #MailInBallots to her Philadelphia home. But that lifeline has snapped. She said she had received #mail just twice in the...
"For Ms. Brownworth, who was paralyzed four years ago, the mail is her lifeline, delivering prescriptions and checks and #MailInBallots to her Philadelphia home. But that lifeline has snapped. She said she had received #mail just twice in the...
... past three weeks, and she dreaded November’s election, worried that her ballot would suffer the same fate as the oxygen tube that she ordered three weeks ago- and that had still not arrived."
"In Ohio, where #MailInVoting is likely to double, piles of undelivered mail...
"In Ohio, where #MailInVoting is likely to double, piles of undelivered mail...
... are sitting in a Cleveland distribution center. In rural Michigan, diabetes medicine that used to arrive in three days now takes almost two weeks. In the Milwaukee area, dozens of trailers filled with packages are left behind every day. In New Glarus, Wis., the owners...
... of the Maple Leaf Cheese and Chocolate Haus are worried their cheese will go bad now that deliveries that used to take two to three days are taking twice that."
"While Mr. #Trump’s war on the #PostalService seems aimed at #Democrats, few Americans rely more on the mail...
"While Mr. #Trump’s war on the #PostalService seems aimed at #Democrats, few Americans rely more on the mail...
... than rural residents, many of whom are #Trump* voters. As a result, there are also a number of #Republicans uneasy about what’s happening with the agency, in particular three #Republican senators from largely rural mail-dependent states who are facing competitive ...
... re-elections this fall: Steve Daines of Montana, Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine."
"Postal workers say drivers are being sent out according to set schedules, whether or not all of the morning’s mail...
"Postal workers say drivers are being sent out according to set schedules, whether or not all of the morning’s mail...
... is ready for them, and delivery trucks now have strict cutoff times for when they have to be gone. They say they are already short on staff because of quarantines and the coronavirus outbreak, and limits on working overtime are pushing them further behind."
“Mail is ...
“Mail is ...
... coming into the building faster than we can get it out,” said Mary DiMarco, who sorts bundles in a Miami postal center. “I’m concerned about ballots being handled. That they’re not going to be processed in time.”
"Postal workers from small-town post offices to...
"Postal workers from small-town post offices to...
... metropolitan distribution centers say they used to operate along a simple motto: Every piece, every day, meaning that they did not leave until all of the day’s mail went out the door. No more, they say."
"He said further delays had occurred after five mail-sorting...
"He said further delays had occurred after five mail-sorting...
... machines in the major Cleveland-area distribution center were dismantled in recent days. Critics worried that political influence inside the #PostalService have focused on the removal of 671 sorting machines- about 1/8 of its devices- from facilities across the country."
Trump's new Postmaster General #DeJoy's wife is also slated to become the new US Ambassador to Canada...
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