US Postal Service leaders can't keep Trump's lies -- or their own stories -- straight

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/us-postal-service-leaders-cant-keep-trumps-lies-or-their-own-stories-straight/

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy claims that removing nearly 700 mail processing machines nationwide is a “routine” cost-saving measure, not a brazen attempt to steal the 2020 Presidential Election by suppressing the vote.

The hobbling of the United States Postal Service to rig the November election is also causing immense collateral damage. Delays in mail delivery hurt people on medications, in need of paychecks and pension checks to pay the rent and of legions of small business owners to ship goods to customers. Many of those suffering are Trump supporters so his scheme is unlikely to win more votes.

Donald Trump, who put DeJoy in office, publicly admitted that he is blocking vital USPS funding needed to process millions of vote-by-mail ballots. Residents of at least two states — Pennsylvania and Washington — have been told their vote-by-mail ballots may not even be counted toward the overall election results.

Nevertheless, on Thursday, USPS spokesperson Dave Partenheimer told me by email that DeJoy’s directive to remove some 671 advanced flat sorting machines, delivery bar code sorters and other flat sequencing systems from mail processing plants across the country is being “misinterpreted.”

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[uponit7771]

1. K&R, They're so contemptuous they don't even bother to lie well ...shit, often they admitting crimes

[SheltieLover]

2. Tangled web and

No need to keep stories straight. They have too much money for REAL consequences.

[stillcool]

3. I thought it was interesting that...

three weeks ago, there was an article about the 46 states that could face delays of mailed ballots. Then Friday I read that the USPS had put out a reduction plan, and listed 46 states where machines were being "mothballed or sold to private entities". Then the mailboxes removal excuse was the decline in mail because of Covid-19, but then there was another article which said the slow-down of mail was due to the increase in mail because of Covid-19. I think they're playing ping-pong.

[oasis]

4. Lying scum. nt

[soothsayer]

5. Ok so flat sorters -- those are for big envelopes

Delivery barcode sorters I believe are the ones I guessed they were removing — small ones used by carriers to sort their mail into route order.

So it’s not the 36k an hour ones that sort letters (fun story: my friend Sue and I hit 40k/hr on one back in 1985, setting a record by running ourselves ragged one night; the more senior guys then lodged a complaint because it made them look bad, and we were never allowed to work on the same machine again).

Anyway, if ballots are big Manila envelope type things, then the removal of flat sorters might impact them. If ballots are in regular letter-sized envelopes they shouldn’t be impacted.

The delivery barcode sorters are for mail going to people’s houses, so I guess that could slow applications for ballots arriving at your house.

[soothsayer]

6. Of course they could be lying

Or I could be wrong

[UCmeNdc]

7. Wait, those machines cost money. They helped speed up servicing the mail. The machines are paid for.

How is it a cost saver to throw them away?

They need to explain how is it cost saving to throw away perfectly good government equipment.

Plus where is the paperwork authorizing the disposal of government equipment?