Trump's cost-cutting Postmaster General lives in a mansion with a 24-carat gold staircase

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

https://greensboro.com/newly-renovated-it-s-a-deal-at-5-9-million/article_b1cde6da-93e9-5a9a-820a-8130fcab25e6.html

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[bullimiami]

2. Of course he does. Jail time is the only thing these people will understand.

They are used to buying their way out of everything as a cost of doing business.
Fines are no deterrent.

[Zoonart]

3. I think perhaps you are wrong.

I think maybe the guillotine is the only thing these people will understand.

All of this reads like French history.

[bullimiami]

8. well that would certainly be understood.

[crickets]

9. +1000000

Fines mean nothing to someone this rich. Sit him down in a jail cell for a few years and only then will the nonsense finally stop.

[enough]

4. K&R. NT

[TheFarseer]

5. Does anyone know

What does XPO Logistics do for the post office? I googled and couldn’t pin that down conclusively. That may solve the mystery of the disappearing sorting machines.

[highplainsdem]

6. You're wondering, too, if DeJoy is selling them off, for a fraction of their value, to his own firm?

[crickets]

10. ...wow. I wouldn't put it past him. nt

[TheFarseer]

11. I heard they were

Being dismantled and thrown into dumpsters, but now I hear that is only a small percentage of the sorting machines so who knows. Next watch for them to sell the post office locations and trucks to XPO for cheap and have the tax payers pay to rent them at a premium.

[stillcool]

12. this article said they were being 'mothballed'...

or sold to private entities....

Mail sort machines being shut down in Manchester
By Kevin Landrigan New Hampshire Union Leader Aug 14, 2020 Updated Aug 16, 2020

Late last week, President Donald Trump told Fox News he hoped changes at USPS would frustrate the efforts of liberal Democrats to mobilize votes against him in states where early, mail-in voting is legal.

The USPS has put out its proposed equipment reduction plan and on page 8, it lists Manchester as one of the sites in 46 states where machines are being mothballed or sold to private entities.

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, said there's bipartisan support in Congress to get additional assistance for the postal service so the agency doesn't face cutbacks in overtime and equipment.

https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/coronavirus/mail-sort-machines-being-shut-down-in-manchester/article_1a5e4a1b-8385-52fd-a3e0-07119f461b04.html

there was also a picture of the machines behind a post office.

[highplainsdem]

13. "Sold to private entities" - likely either DeJoy's or companies belonging to his friends or Trump's.

[stillcool]

16. buy one, get one free..

they go right for the good stuff.

[TheFarseer]

14. Unbelievable

Except with Trump and crew it’s extremely believable.

[miyazaki]

7. I'm guessing he never was a mailman. nt

[DFW]

15. I saw a brief snip with the Trump White House sleaze bag

He was saying that "no FURTHER sorting machines would be dismantled." The same report said that 95% of the already WERE dismantled.

I'm not sure I believe either one, but that's what was on snips from the US media shown here.