USPS has a twitter acct. They have things to say

[irisblue]

Link to tweet

[kairos12]

1. I think that is good news.

But I still think we poll watchers and postal watchers this year.

[msongs]

2. yeah mail that's 2 or 3 weeks delayed nt

[whttevrr]

4. 1-3 days locally

Most mail arrives on time.

[sheshe2]

3. Thanks so much for the tweet...

I went to their twitter site. Great info there!

[niyad]

5. And that is not even counting Christmas.

[OverBurn]

6. Wow. Nice reply USPS!

[abakan]

7. Yes, but.

Ballots are not the only things they have to deliver.

[benld74]

8. I follow

[smirkymonkey]

9. My ballot here in Boston was mailed to me on Aug 18th.

I recieved it on Aug 19th (picked up the am of Aug 20th before our building's daily mail delivery for that day) so that means our local mail carriers are keeping up with things so far. Also, my prescriptions have arrived on time as well.

[LiberalArkie]

10. From what I read it is the packages Like chickens and meds that are slowed because of not

enough package sorting machines.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Exactly. A sorting machine does the work of 30 people

If more workers have to be delegated the hand sorting mail, fewer are available to sort and deliver packages. Add to that, DeJoy has cut overtime.

[LiberalArkie]

14. The pictures of the machines on the web have been for flats (mail envelopes) not for packages.

They said that they are delivering more packages than flats now days. So I guess they need more machines that do packages rather than doing them by hand.

[pnwmom]

11. What they USED to deliver in a single day, before mail started piling up in post offices

because they removed mail sorters and banned overtime.

[djacq]

12. Is that at Current Production before or after DeJoy?

[ramblin_dave]

15. 330 million is the total population

The number of registered voters is about half that.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273743/number-of-registered-voters-in-the-united-states/

[dmr]

20. True, but to be fair, they did say ALL Americans

Just playing Devil's Advocate whether it makes sense or not.

[Cha]

16. Rt! TY, irisblue.. de NOjoy is Gaslighting America.

[irisblue]

17. That guy lied

[Cha]

18. Yes, & Busted!

[Mr. Ected]

19. Perhaps if people ceased to use the USPS for non-essential mail over the course of the election

It would lighten the load even more and decrease the likelihood of delays.

[dmr]

21. It might be helpful, but then

the morons in DC will say, "See, there's a decrease in usage, they don't need any addition funding or staffing."

[DrToast]

22. This is not good news

They're trying to diffuse the issue.

There are already problems with mail being delivered RIGHT NOW.

They can't say they'll be able to handle things when they are not doing it right now.