Something that has occured to me about the Post Office.

[RDANGELO]

The sorting machines that have been taken out by Trumps crony were put in place to begin with because they can sort mail faster than a human. They don't get sick; you don't have to pay them 15$ an hour or whatever they make or over time; they don't have family problems. All you have to do is keep them maintained. The cost of the machines is probably alleviated in a few years due to the decreased need in manpower. If you were going to make the Post Office more efficient, the last thing you would do is take out the sorters. This is an obvious attempt to impare the Post Office.

[SheltieLover]

1. Wapo posted map of where machines were removed. All Dem areas

No accident. 🤬

[Hoyt]

4. Actually, not totally true. There are discussions here about removals in Grand Rapids,

states like Iowa, etc.

Fact is, highly populated areas — which thank god are usually Blue — are where a 20% reduction in mail would free up a number of machines.

[Hoyt]

2. Unless you have a lot of unused capacity, which appears the case for

letter mail.

[unblock]

6. I don't use my second car that much due to COVID, so I'll crash it into a tree.

Mothballing equipment sometimes makes sense.
Selling equipment sometimes make sense.
Using equipment for parts sometimes makes sense.
Destroying equipment and throwing it rarely makes sense.

These are assets. It rarely makes sense to simply discard them.

Also, what about not letting carriers make a second trip? What about them not clearing the mail and letting it accumulate?

They're trying to focus attention on one thing they did that maybe they have a plausible-sounding argument for, in the hopes we forget about the rest of it. Letting mail accumulate undelivered doesn't fit into any positive argument.

[Hoyt]

7. If you have 6000 more, and can probably get by with 3000,

it just might make sense. Who would they sell the obsolete, underused machines to?

At worst, they let it accumulate until next day to avoid overtime. Requiring approval for overtime, doesn’t bother me either.

[unblock]

8. ok, sure. guess that's why absolutely no one from the post office has expressed any concern

[DenverJared]

3. Exactly

Other industries are going into automation for efficiency - not abandoning it.

[Mopar151]

5. I used to build automated equipment, much like that.

I recognize some of the generic components. The key indicator - there are ways to disassemble the complex control wiring so that it can be reused, and easily reconnected. Cutting it with pruning loppers , as was apparently done here, means that it should have the entire harness re-made. Industrial electricians are some of the most cantankerous humans on earth - I know! The ones I worked with, and, at times, nominally supervised, would only be happy and content if DeJoy were hancuffed to a support column in the work area, to be the object of scorn and half-empty cups of cold coffee .