Kansas, Missouri mail processing machines removed by Postal Service, union leader says

[RandySF]

The U.S. Postal Service has removed mail processing machines from facilities in Kansas City, Wichita and Springfield, according to a local union official, who fears their loss could slow mail delivery.

The decommissioned machines in Kansas and Missouri are among a wave of removals at postal facilities nationwide, sparking fears President Donald Trump will attempt to thwart voting by mail this fall. Trump earlier this week said blocking funding for USPS would halt mail-in voting.

Officials in two postal unions said Friday that mail processing machines have been removed from USPS facilities.

Antoinette Robinson, president of the American Postal Workers Union Greater Kansas City Metro Area Local, said USPS was removing machines nationally. National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 297 President Chris Bentley said four machines in Kansas City, one in Wichita and two in Springfield were removed earlier this summer.

USPS management didn’t provide many reasons for removing the machines, Bentley said, adding that workers were told that mail volume is down. He said mail volume always declines in the summer, though, before picking up in the fall.




https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article244967820.html#storylink=cpy

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. What I see are russian tanks tearing out post boxes and sorting machines...i wish everybody

understood what was really happening here.

[LisaL]

2. Yea, it's going to pick up in the fall, especially in a election year.

[SheltieLover]

3. What are they doing with machines?

Sending to Putin?

Selling them?

[LisaL]

4. I believe machines have been destroyed.

[SheltieLover]

5. Did you read that somewhere?

[LisaL]

6. Yes, right here on DU there is a thread on that.

[SheltieLover]

7. TYVM!

I wonder if that takes this to a whole new level of criminality?

[SamKnause]

9. Just reported on the Rachel Maddow show.

They were not moved to other locations.

They were destroyed.

Some have shown up in dumpsters.

Some of the machines cost millions of dollars.

Just reported on the Rachel Maddow show.

There will be a repeat at 12:00 if you can catch it.

The entire show was about the sabotage of the Post Office.

[samnsara]

8. who has the power to stop this..if trump wins again by cheating we have to have the senate..

impeach this sob