21 Attys Gen Oppose DeJoy USPS Plan, Slow Down 1st-Class Mail Deliv- Impact Mail- In Ballots

[appalachiablue]

Yahoo News, Business Insider, June 21, 2021. - Ed.

- Attorneys general from 21 states issued a statement opposing proposed changes at the Postal Service.
- Postmaster General DeJoy has proposed delaying some 1st-class mail deliveries.
- Instead of 2 to 3 days, some mail would be delivered in a 4 to 5 day window.

Twenty-one state attorneys general argued in a joint statement on Monday that delaying first-class mail delivery by as many as two days would harm rural communities and could disenfranchise those who cast absentee ballots. In March, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, unveiled a plan to raise prices and slash services at the US Postal Service, citing a need to address a revenue shortfall.

In particular, DeJoy outlined a proposal to slow down the delivery of first-class mail. Instead of two to three days, nonlocal mail could take as many as five days to reach its destination. The attorneys general say that reflects a "flawed philosophy that would prioritize the services it offers in competitive markets," such as package delivery, "over those that it alone provides and on which countless Americans depend."..

Signatories, all Democrats - including city attorneys for San Francisco and New York - maintain that delaying mail delivery would violate USPS' statutory duty to provide "regular and effective" access to postal services for rural communities. They also warn any additional delays to first-class mail delivery could further complicate mail-in voting, "frustrating the states' ability to administer their elections and potentially resulting in voter disenfranchisement."

Democrats have lambasted DeJoy's efforts to cut back on USPS services, with the postmaster general facing repeated calls for his resignation. DeJoy slashed the Postal Service's mail-processing capacity ahead of the 2020 election, prompting concerns that mail-in ballots would not be delivered on time. Democrats were until recently limited in their ability to remove DeJoy...

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[raging moderate]

1. First class mail is not delivered in 4 - 5 days, now.

In the good old days, before the Republicans began deliberately sabotaging our United States Postal Service, I used to send my bill payments by first class mail, and they always arrived within 4 - 5 days. Then, after Louis DeJoy's foul play, they sometimes took 2 - 3 weeks. When I mail my bill payments, nowadays, I no longer trust them to be delivered in 4 - 5 days. Instead, I pay to have them delivered by Priority Mail. And sometimes they do not arrive in 4 - 5 days, even when sent by Priority Mail. However, at least I can count on having them arrive within 7 days.

[appalachiablue]

2. It's changed for the worse I know. Several years

ago I started using Priority Delivery for some payments which provided tracking just in case, and I'd had a bad experience- real mess. So I also began paying certain bills by phone from banks accts. to make sure they weren't late.

This is an important move by the attorney generals, I hope it's successful.

[Jim__]

3. I do wish that Biden would get rid of this guy.

[monkeyman1]

4. why is DEFUCKUP STILL THERE ? crate him up first class to Russia. no tracking # !!

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Air holes optional. nt

[monkeyman1]

7. damn ! how stupid of me . forgot that one ! good one .

[Midnight Writer]

6. Love the pictures! Look up thickheaded bossman in the dictionary, and...

[monkeyman1]

8. one thing !

one thing they try is that mean look , get dead square in in there face & they will run like a coward they are ! it,s happened to "TFG " lot's of times .