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Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:03 PM Aug 2020

Postal trucks traveling across US with NO MAIL following cuts!

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/postal-trucks-sometimes-travel-across-country-with-no-mail-after-usps-cuts

..."But an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation found that, at the same time that DeJoy was testifying, the Postal Service was paying for an empty truck to drive from Nashville to Illinois.

NewsChannel 5 Investigates discovered that DeJoy's changes have led to empty postal trucks being run all over the country.

"The only change I made, ma'am, was the trucks leave on time," said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Friday in response to questions from Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-NV.

Testifying before a U.S. Senate committee, Dejoy defended his cost-cutting measures, specifically highlighting cuts that targeted transportation issues within the Postal Service.

Those cuts require postal trucks to leave sorting facilities by a specific time each day and are intended to reduce expenses related to overtime and extra trips.
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"Trucks leave empty," said Joe Jolley a postal employee with the postal workers union in Nashville. "They leave completely empty. We pay a truck to travel to Memphis, a 53-foot truck with no mail on it."...(more)

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Postal trucks traveling across US with NO MAIL following cuts! (Original Post) Tanuki Aug 2020 OP
Arrest DeJoy now, he's a fucking criminal. I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2020 #1
He has the arrogance and appearance of a MOBSTER Grasswire2 Aug 2020 #2

Grasswire2

(13,570 posts)
2. He has the arrogance and appearance of a MOBSTER
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 12:49 PM
Aug 2020

Central casting.

Considers himself above the law. Time to slap him down with a charge of Criminal Conspiracy to Circumvent an Election, among other things.

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