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8/11/20
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's plans to shake up the agency are gathering opposition from some of its workers. DeJoy has already prohibited postal workers from working overtime. He wants late-arriving mail to be left behind and delivered the following day. On Friday, he announced a new organizational structure for the agency's executives. "Mail is beginning to pile up in our offices, and we're seeing equipment being removed," said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union and a postal clerk in Waterloo, Iowa. As a result of the recent changes, Karol told NPR's Noel King on Morning Edition, a mail processing machine was removed from her facility in Waterloo and others have been removed across Iowa. Of the policy to leave some letters behind for the following day, another postal worker told NPR last month: "I am sick to my stomach," knowing that means medication could be delayed in getting to recipients.
Karol echoed that point: "I grew up in a culture of service where every piece was to be delivered, to be delivered every day." She said the Postal Service's new polices are "not allowing us to deliver every piece every day, as we've done in the past." Other postal workers "all across the country" agree, she said. A letter carrier in Cincinnati was told to leave mail behind if it would require using overtime. "We are already short-handed," she told Government Executive. "We don't have enough people to get all the routes done without using overtime." Karol argues that the measures won't save money either. "I see this as a way to undermine the public confidence in the mail service," she said. "It's not saving costs. Perhaps the biggest alarms are being sounded by members of Congress, who are concerned about the prospect of big changes at the Postal Service during an election that's expected to see more mail-in voting than ever before.
Of the policy to leave some letters behind for the following day, another postal worker told NPR last month: "I am sick to my stomach," knowing that means medication could be delayed in getting to recipients.
HAHA One Less Liberal ****hole to worry about :lamo this is gonna spike the TDS levels in the forum :lamo :lamo
Postal Workers Decry Changes And Cost-Cutting Measures
Voters should also be concerned. Very concerned.
This is Donald Trump overtly influencing the election by purposefully ruining the capability of the USPS to process mail-in votes for the November election in a timely manner.
Trump will insist that no mail-in vote counted after November 3rd is legitimate. No different than the actions of some tinpot dictator in a banana republic.
Related: U.S. postal service reorganization sparks delays, election questions
Privatization to the rescue!
Everything is a Trump conspiracy. My cousin worked at the USPS briefly when he came out of the military when the Kenyan was King. He ended up quitting and going back to college as his pay was significantly cut when he went from being a trainee to a regular employee.
No one gives a **** about your endless partisan anecdotes.
It's pathetic and obvious that Trump is trying to pull the rug out from under the USPS in order to negatively impact Mail-In voting to suppress voting during a pandemic. It's obvious. But the Cultists are trying to reframe the narrative. They don't care that their Dear Leader is trying to rig the election, that's not even a concern. They're happy he's doing it.
So the ignorant, dishonest, partisan narrative they're trying to spin now is that we shouldn't be pushing Mail-In voting because Trump is trying to rig the system against it.
'Anything that isn't Trump Be Evil isn't reality to you . In the mean time. the Post Office is filled with drama queens who complain about how things are and complain when anybody changes anything. They are like the democrats, but employed.
Trumpism: the ugliness is the point.
Everything is a Trump conspiracy. My cousin worked at the USPS briefly when he came out of the military when the Kenyan was King. He ended up quitting and going back to college as his pay was significantly cut when he went from being a trainee to a regular employee.
This is naked cheating.
Where are all the red blooded patriots?
Where are all the 2A types that swore they would defend peoples rights and combat tyranny if it ever reared its ugly head?
This is how Democracy dies.
If not today, another time when someone goes even further because Trump supporters have shown, clearly, that there’s nothing he can do that they won’t defend or ignore.
If he nuked LA tomorrow they would say
You can get your asses out to protest but not to a voting booth? The mail ins are already being sent to pets. Yeah us 2a types are watching this very carefully. I strongly suggest that democrats do not try and steal the election.
Good, If SO ..... My dog has more sense than a Trumpet has.
Good to know you are on record for supporting unlawful elections. I always say lefties are straight up filthy traitors but its always great when they confirm it.
An absurd take from the humorless Right...just like Trump himself...the humorless, brooding, whining, dark, doomsday peddling carpetbagger.
You can get your asses out to protest but not to a voting booth? The mail ins are already being sent to pets. Yeah us 2a types are watching this very carefully. I strongly suggest that democrats do not try and steal the election.
Got a hankerin to shoot ya some libs?
Did you think this was my first rodeo? Cute but pathetically weak as well. Hey...here is a participation award for you trying. Its not a first place but I'm guessing you are used to that by now.
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