Postmaster General Suspends Trump's Mail Sabotage Operation

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/18/postmaster-general-suspends-trump-mail-sabotage.html


Posted on Tue, Aug 18th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Postmaster General Suspends Trump’s Mail Sabotage Operation


Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced that he will be suspending Trump’s changes in USPS operations until after the election.

In a statement, DeJoy said:

The Postal Service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall. Even with the challenges of keeping our employees and customers safe and healthy as they operate amid a pandemic, we will deliver the nation’s election mail on time and within our well-established service standards. The American public should know that this is our number one priority between now and election day. The 630,000 dedicated women and men of the Postal Service are committed, ready and proud to meet this sacred duty.

I am announcing today the expansion of our current leadership taskforce on election mail to enhance our ongoing work and partnership with state and local election officials in jurisdictions throughout the country. Leaders of our postal unions and management associations have committed to joining this taskforce to ensure strong coordination throughout our organization. Because of the unprecedented demands of the 2020 election, this taskforce will help ensure that election officials and voters are well informed and fully supported by the Postal Service.

I came to the Postal Service to make changes to secure the success of this organization and its long-term sustainability. I believe significant reforms are essential to that objective, and work toward those reforms will commence after the election. In the meantime, there are some longstanding operational initiatives — efforts that predate my arrival at the Postal Service — that have been raised as areas of concern as the nation prepares to hold an election in the midst of a devastating pandemic. To avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, I am suspending these initiatives until after the election is concluded.

I want to assure all Americans of the following:

Retail hours at Post Offices will not change.
Mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes will remain where they are.
No mail processing facilities will be closed.
And we reassert that overtime has, and will continue to be, approved as needed.

In addition, effective Oct. 1, we will engage standby resources in all areas of our operations, including transportation, to satisfy any unforeseen demand.

Trump attacked Speaker of the House Pelosi on Monday for taking action to stop the USPS sabotage.

In plain English, DeJoy’s statement means that Trump is backing down due to the blistering and unrelenting criticism that he has gotten for his act of sabotage.

It is a familiar pattern, Trump violates laws and rules to see what he can get away with. If the public reaction is too intense, he backs down.

There are still valid concerns about overtime hours and staffing, and the House needs to keep the pressure on, but DeJoy’s statement is a sign that the American people are beating back Trump’s USPS sabotage.

[woodsprite]

1. What about everything he's already done?

Is he returning all the sorting machines to service - in working order?

Returning the mailboxes that have been removed?

[enough]

2. Good questions. NT

[stillcool]

3. the mail boxes, and equipment will remain where they are...

does anyone know where they went?

[soothsayer]

5. Unlocked? Or still locked

[stillcool]

12. got to find them first...

[C_U_L8R]

4. Vital machines were destroyed and mailboxes removed.

This bootlick needs to detail to Congress and the country specifically how and when each of these will be returned to active service.

[WhiteTara]

6. put back the machines and mailboxes

[no_hypocrisy]

17. YES! YES! YES! YES!

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. Translation:

"We've done what we needed to do and this will shut the media up"

[underpants]

15. Yeah I'm not buying this at all

These people are just flat out liars. Why would anyone think he’s just going to stop doing what he clearly had planned before he got the position?

[lettucebe]

8. Not unless they return the sorting machines and mailboxes will this be true

[634-5789]

9. ....blue collection boxes will remain where they are. Several have been locked, How about those?

[scarletlib]

10. Overtime approved as needed.

Who’s going to determine that?

[MFGsunny]

11. It's like :: JUST SAY NO TO THE BRAT MF45!

RESIST

PERSIST

Rinse. Repeat.

[kentuck]

13. Did you discuss how to "fix" the problems in the Postal Service with Donald Trump at the White House

Was the intent to slow down mail services?

[kairos12]

14. I think the only thing that will get to Killjoy is the promise by State

agencies they will prosecute and throw him in jail if interference is proven. State crimes, not pardonable. Otherwise, I don't think he will stop doing President Bleach's bidding.

[NurseJackie]

16. I guess they figure enough damage has been done...

... and they'll still call the election flawed and corrupted and illegitimate.

[Hoyt]

18. Worst case, there are still over 3,800 sorters in place. They can handle roughly 1.1 Billion letters

a day (just 8 hours, not running at night at processing centers). That assumes all the removed sorters were decommissioned, which is not the fact.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/16/politics/usps-documents-sorting-machine-removal-order/index.html


The mailboxes are not much of an issue. The post office has removed 240,000 since 1985, that's an average of 6,850 a year.




Finally, Just vote, contribute, vote early, use drop boxes where available, etc.

"Don't fall prey to alarmists on both sides of this debate."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=266283

[Arkansas Granny]

19. I am assuming that the hearing of 8/24 will proceed as scheduled.