Here's the total bullshit about USPS not being able to handle voting by mail

[Nevilledog]

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2019/1107-20-million-packages-to-be-delivered-daily-this-holiday-season.htm


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Busiest Mailing and Delivery Days

The Postal Service’s busiest time of the season peaks two weeks before Christmas, when much last-minute shopping starts. Customer traffic is expected to increase beginning Dec. 9, while the week of Dec. 16 is expected to be the busiest time for mailing, shipping and delivery. Additionally, the Postal Service predicts that nearly 2.5 billion pieces of First-Class Mail, including greeting cards, will be processed and delivered the week of Dec. 16.

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The fuck they can't handle 150 million ballots.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. With this new incompetent apparatchik they can't....

I have had more f**k ups with mail in the last few weeks than in the two previous years.

This tool's new policies are are already stunting the service.

[Nevilledog]

2. The problems now are manufactured by trump and his minions.

This shows without their meddling there would be no issue.

[Celerity]

3. Also those ballots will be spread out over weeks and be under 100 million.

[True Blue American]

4. I heard today they have compromised

On $400 a week for unemployment and $10 billion for the PostOficce.

Mitch said he would depend on Democratic votes to pass it!:’

[Celerity]

5. is that 10 billion another loan?

Trump administration considers leveraging emergency coronavirus loan to force Postal Service changes

President Trump has railed for years against what he sees as mismanagement of the agency, which he argues has been exploited by sites such as Amazon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/10-billion-treasury-loan-usps/

April 23, 2020 at 11:39 p.m. GMT+2

The Treasury Department is considering taking unprecedented control over key operations of the U.S. Postal Service by imposing tough terms on an emergency coronavirus loan from Congress, which would fulfill President Trump’s longtime goal of changing how the service does business, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Officials working under Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who must approve the $10 billion loan, have told senior officials at the USPS in recent weeks that he could use the loan as leverage to give the administration influence over how much the agency charges for delivering packages and how it manages its finances, according to the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks are preliminary.

Trump has railed for years against what he sees as mismanagement at the Postal Service, which he argues has been exploited by e-commerce sites such as Amazon, and has sought to change how much the agency charges for the delivery of packages. (Amazon’s founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

Under the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus relief passed last month, the Treasury was authorized to loan $10 billion to the USPS, which says it may not be able to make payroll and continue mail service uninterrupted past September. Mnuchin rejected a bipartisan Senate proposal to give the Postal Service a bailout amid the negotiations over that legislation, a senior Trump administration official and a congressional official previously told The Post.

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[msongs]

6. one suspects the issue is deliberate illegal manufactured delay, not volume nt

[Nevilledog]

7. Absolutely. And it's a federal crime to fuck with the mail.

[underpants]

8. I think some of the pushback on this is because it establishes voting for a month

Imagine people being able to vote at their convenience not crammed into one day. Sure there will be people who wait for the last minute but there probably won’t be HOURS of waiting that frustrates and deters people.

[Nevilledog]

9. And they're upset you can't tell the color or party of the voter.

[Mike 03]

10. BAM! Excellent post.