ME-SEN: Collins helped cripple the USPS: Now Maine farmers are getting dead baby chicks in the mail
Maine farmers have blamed recent changes at the U.S. Postal Service after receiving thousands of dead baby chicks due to shipping delays. The state's postal workers blamed the slowdown on a bill championed by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, that "weakened the Postal Service" — and faces a tough re-election battle this fall.
"It's one more of the consequences of this disorganization, this sort of chaos they've created at the post office and nobody thought through when they were thinking of slowing down the mail," Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, told the newspaper. "This is a system that's always worked before and it's worked very well until these changes started being made."
Operational changes made by recently installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a top donor to President Trump and the Republican Party, have been blamed for a mail slowdown that has impacted shipments of medication, government aid and other vital services. DeJoy has said the cash-strapped agency implemented the changes as cost-cutting measures.
"Shortly after or right at the same time that [DeJoy] came on board … the company line was that it was a cost-saving measure," Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union, told Salon. "But the reality is that it impacts service standards and, whether intentionally or not, this changes the time frames that our customers receive the mail."
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/21/susan-collins-helped-cripple-the-usps-now-maine-farmers-are-getting-dead-baby-chicks-in-the-mail/
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