Trump admin removing letter-sorting machines from post-offices. Mail already piling up.

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/a-conspiracy-alarms-sound-after-postal-worker-reports-removal-of-sorting-machines/

The head of the Iowa Postal Workers Union alleged Tuesday that mail sorting machines are “being removed” from Post Offices in her state due to new policies imposed by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major GOP donor to President Donald Trump whose operational changes have resulted in dramatic mail slowdowns across the nation.

Asked by NPR‘s Noel King whether she has felt the impact of DeJoy’s changes, Iowa Postal Workers Union President Kimberly Karol—a 30-year Postal Service veteran—answered in the affirmative, saying “mail is beginning to pile up in our offices, and we’re seeing equipment being removed.”

...

Karol went on to specify that “equipment that we use to process mail for delivery”—including sorting machines—is being removed from Postal Service facilities in Iowa as DeJoy rushes ahead with policies that, according to critics, are sabotaging the Postal Service’s day-to-day operations less than 90 days before an election that could hinge on mail-in ballots.

[RKP5637]

1. This is absolutely outrageous. It shows some of the breaking points of our democracy in

an administration trying to bring the country down and install a dictatorship!

[2naSalit]

14. And don't forget czarina's copyrights on voting machines last year...

That's why the sabotage of the USPS, can't reprogram paper ballots.

[dalton99a]

2. Louis DeJoy should be arrested.

[ElementaryPenguin]

13. Exactly!

Fuck this fucking gangster!!!!!

[Mike Niendorff]

26. 100%

This story needs to be shouted from the rooftops.


MDN

[Lars39]

3. Where are these machines being taken?

Are they being warehoused? Destroyed? Set on a loading dock somewhere?

[Steelrolled]

16. I don't know, but there has been a LOT of consolidation of

sorting offices over the last 10 or so year. It probably is more efficient, but can increase delivery times due to the extra time to reach a sorting office.

[kacekwl]

4. The people removing the equipment from post offices

need to say who ordered them to do so. Then those people need to say who ordered them to remove them and so on until all the facts come out. Meanwhile Dejoy needs to testify why and explain his actions now. Then see who's stories line up. We know the answer. Lock him up.

[global1]

5. And We Sit Back And Watch This Happening Right Before Our Eyes And.....

are helpless to stop and prevent any further destruction of the USPS.

[elleng]

6. There IS an Oversight Committee,

presumably to work on these matters.

Chairwoman Maloney Introduces “Delivering for America Act” to Protect Delivery Standards for U.S. Postal Service
Aug 12, 2020 Press Release
Chairwoman Maloney Issues Statement on Trump Administration Postmaster General’s Continued Efforts to Degrade Postal Operations
Aug 8, 2020 Press Release
Chairwoman Maloney Issues Statement on Postmaster General’s Memo Outlining Major Reorganization
Aug 7, 2020 Press Release
Warren, Maloney, Carper, Peters & Colleagues Call for Inspector General to Investigate Postal Service Policy Changes and Delivery Delays Under New Trump-Appointed Postmaster General


https://oversight.house.gov/investigations/postal-service

[obamanut2012]

19. Maloney is a woman

wtf

[MiniMe]

18. The stage has already been set that the jerks don't answer subpoenas from Democrats.

[struggle4progress]

9. 18 USC 1703

(a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail entrusted to him or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(b) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, improperly detains, delays, or destroys any newspaper, or permits any other person to detain, delay, or destroy the same, or opens, or permits any other person to open, any mail or package of newspapers not directed to the office where he is employed; or
Whoever, without authority, opens, or destroys any mail or package of newspapers not directed to him, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1703

[2naSalit]

15. +1000000000000000000000!!!

[Wicked Blue]

17. Maybe there should be protests outside post offices

demanding that the equipment stays put.

[spanone]

24. too bad we don't have an attorney general who is our advocate.

motherfuckers

[shanti]

25. This is outrageous

First, we hear they are just not using the machines, now they are removing them! When was the last time mail was manually sorted??