Since everyone is talking about the crisis at the @usps and the Trumper creep #DeJoy, the Postmaster General. These are mail sorting machines at the main Cleveland postal facility last August.

DeJoy ordered them torn out and they were left to rot in the parking lot.
Not removed and reused at another facility. TORN THE FUCK OUT, and purposely left outside to get rained on and ruined so they could NEVER be used again.
And no effort was made to mask what they were doing! You could see (and photograph) these things from the street!

When called on this, DeJoy insisted they were torn out "months" ago. Postal workers revealed it was just days.
Postal workers ignored dictates from DeJoy & his goons, and alerted the media every time he tried another destructive move.

But after the election? It all fell apart. Xmas backed up, literally. Mail trucks were parked down the block! Mail delivery ground to a full stop.
And because of "consolidation" the Cleveland processing facility is the ONLY one left, sorting ALL mail for the entire NE quarter of the state.

In January 2020, mail thru here was delivered on time 93% of the time. By December? 29%! Among the worst in the US.
The arrogance and brazen criminality of Trumper creeps like DeJoy was/is their trademark. That, and blithering incompetence. Because this move to cripple the main post office for all of (very Blue) greater Cleveland FAILED. Postal workers stepped up & got the ballots delivered.
A fully functioning @USPS was CRIPPLED so Mad King Cheeto could "win" an election by making mail-in voting impossible, which he failed to do, and then declaring early "victory", which he also failed to do.

Just as he fails at everything, except fleecing his rube followers.
#DeJoy should have been fired IMMEDIATELY. Fire the whole damn board. Who cares if the GOP screams? They bawl about everything. If the @usps isn't saved RIGHT NOW, we'll lose it forever.
Biden should demand tomorrow #DeJoy step down and the board resign en masse. If they refuse, fire them at the end of the day. FIX THIS!

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