- Joined
- Apr 18, 2013
- Messages
- 93,610
- Reaction score
- 81,671
- Location
- Barsoom
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
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
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.
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