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Postal Service overhauls leadership as Democrats press for investigation of mail delays

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s mail service, displacing the two top executives overseeing day-to-day operations, according to a reorganization memo released Friday. The shake-up came as congressional Democrats called for an investigation of DeJoy and the cost-cutting measures that have slowed mail delivery and ensnared ballots in recent primary elections.

Twenty-three postal executives were reassigned or displaced, the new organizational chart shows. Analysts say the structure centralizes power around DeJoy, a former logistics executive and major ally of President Trump, and de-emphasizes decades of institutional postal knowledge. All told, 33 staffers included in the old postal hierarchy either kept their jobs or were reassigned in the restructuring, with five more staffers joining the leadership from other roles.

The reshuffling threatens to heighten tensions between postal officials and lawmakers, who are troubled by delivery delays — the Postal Service banned employees from working overtime and making extra trips to deliver mail — and wary of the Trump administration’s influence on the Postal Service as the coronavirus pandemic rages and November’s election draws near.

Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), chair of the House subcommittee responsible for postal oversight, called the reorganization “a deliberate sabotage” to the nation’s mail service and a “Trojan Horse.”
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The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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So, just like in 2016, your "side" of the political line is already developing excuses for the (in your minds "remote") possibility Trump could win?

Last time it was "Russia Collusion."

This time it's going to be "vote tampering?" With the mass-mail-in vote process your side is pushing, which already suffers from many, many problems?

Color me "not" surprised. :coffeepap:
 
Captain Adverse said:
So, just like in 2016, your "side" of the political line is already developing excuses for the (in your minds "remote") possibility Trump could win?

Last time it was "Russia Collusion."

This time it's going to be "vote tampering?" With the mass-mail-in vote process your side is pushing, which already suffers from many, many problems?

Color me "not" surprised. :coffeepap:
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Translation: you don’t give a **** about this transparent attempt to **** with mail ballots because it benefits Trump.
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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Sorry we can't send you a stimulus check because the mail in ballots are overwhelming the system. You have to pick one or the other---free money or Biden as President.
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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A problem for the post office is they don’t have the capability to post mark each ballot. So they can be wandering in from everywhere at any time. An un postmarked ballot should be invalid due to no chain of custody.

The best think is old school. Just drive by and drop it in the bin.

It’s going to be a mess. It’s going to lead to a huge popular vote landslide of fraud, but of no use because electoral count will decide. The electoral college also makes fraud harder to pull off.

I just wonder if blue states will at least be subtle about it...
 
Captain Adverse said:
So, just like in 2016, your "side" of the political line is already developing excuses for the (in your minds "remote") possibility Trump could win?

Last time it was "Russia Collusion."

This time it's going to be "vote tampering?" With the mass-mail-in vote process your side is pushing, which already suffers from many, many problems?

Color me "not" surprised. :coffeepap:
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Suffers from many many problems. Lol, you sound just like trump. Using many many words to say nothing. Innuendo, allusion, semantics that say not a thing.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Translation: you don’t give a **** about this transparent attempt to **** with mail ballots because it benefits Trump.
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Real translation, tired of hearing all the whining every time a Democrat doesn't win.
 
This is pretty blatant, and people defending it should never refer to themselves as patriots ever again.
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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Isn't this your boy? Obama told reporters that if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “whining about voter fraud before the game is even over,” referring of the upcoming election, then he doesn’t “have what it takes to be in this job.” There is no evidence in history of any voter fraud.

 
Condor060 said:
Isn't this your boy? Obama told reporters that if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “whining about voter fraud before the game is even over,” referring of the upcoming election, then he doesn’t “have what it takes to be in this job.” There is no evidence in history of any voter fraud.

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The problem with your argument is the mail has already been deliberately slowed.

We are all watching a slow-motion train wreck that can easily be avoided.
 
chuckiechan said:
A problem for the post office is they don’t have the capability to post mark each ballot. So they can be wandering in from everywhere at any time. An un postmarked ballot should be invalid due to no chain of custody.

The best think is old school. Just drive by and drop it in the bin.

It’s going to be a mess. It’s going to lead to a huge popular vote landslide of fraud, but of no use because electoral count will decide. The electoral college also makes fraud harder to pull off.

I just wonder if blue states will at least be subtle about it...
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Why do you write like a homeless person who just discovered a thrown-away laptop?
 
W_Heisenberg said:
Why do you write like a homeless person who just discovered a thrown-away laptop?
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Lol.. You aren’t following “chain of custody” argument?

This place gets funnier by the day.. [emoji2957]
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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The Democrats are trying to fix the USPS.

The problem is it's hard to negotiate with people who don't care about anything and want to see the USPS ruined, and want to see to it that none of the ballots are actually delivered.

We are dealing with fascist thugs who don't want people to vote. It's that simple.

Top Democrats rally for more USPS resources ahead of election | Federal News Network

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters Wednesday that he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a “heated discussion” with postmaster general Louis DeJoy Wednesday over recent policy changes to cut overtime and transportation costs, which have led to some delays in mail delivery.

Operational changes and overtime cuts, Schumer said, leave USPS with “insufficient” resources to deliver an expected surge in mail-in ballots.

“We are demanding that the regulations they put in place, which cut employment and cut overtime, be rescinded. Particularly because of COVID and because of the elections, we need those to vote and we will advocate strongly for money so that they can hire all the people necessary – both overtime and new people – to make sure that every single ballot is counted, he said.

The Postal Service provision isn’t the only tough sell in these negotiations. Schumer said there are still major differences between Democrats and the White House over the contents of the next pandemic spending bill.

Meanwhile, Schumer and Pelosi also held meetings with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

“I feel optimistic that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but how long that tunnel is remains to be seen,” Pelosi said.

The meeting comes a day after the House Oversight and Reform Committee announced DeJoy agreed to testify at a Sept. 17 hearing focused on USPS operations.

Meanwhile, more than 130 members of the House have signed onto a letter demanding measures in the final pandemic spending bill that would roll back the operational changes DeJoy instituted, and give the agency $25 billion in one-time funding.

In addition to emergency funding, the lawmakers have urged congressional leaders to include language that would return USPS delivery standards back to before DeJoy’s tenure as postmaster general, which began in June.

While the USPS inspector general has found that overtime hours increased between fiscal years 2012 and 2018, lawmakers said the new requirements have “rendered postal workers unable to deliver mail in a timely manner.”
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In the first place the entire premise Trump is using as a blanket to cover his true intentions regarding USPS is a left handed lie. Trump's position: "the post office loses money".

Well DonDon, the post office is not a business. USPS provides a government guaranteed SERVICE. So much for that bit of Trumpian nonsense.
 
Right wingers want this kind of destruction, that's how they can watch the most blatant garbage in the history of our government happen and not criticize it. The USPS has been intentionally sabotaged and they just nod their heads.
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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sounds like a good reason not to have mail in voting and just have a normal election, like always eh?
 
Drawdown said:
Sorry we can't send you a stimulus check because the mail in ballots are overwhelming the system. You have to pick one or the other---free money or Biden as President.
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That's a bizarre non-sequitur....:confused:
 
basically, it's going to have to be an anti-Republican wipeout if we are to be successful at keeping them from effectively cheating. if it's close, they'll succeed. that's my opinion.
 
Helix said:
basically, it's going to have to be an anti-Republican wipeout if we are to be successful at keeping them from effectively cheating. if it's close, they'll succeed. that's my opinion.
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There's going to be tons of delayed ballots that Trump will sue to have rejected. And Trumpers will eat it up, accepting it as proof the USPS can't be trusted with ballots and just somehow never understanding that the delays are ****ing intentional.
 
Deuce said:
There's going to be tons of delayed ballots that Trump will sue to have rejected. And Trumpers will eat it up, accepting it as proof the USPS can't be trusted with ballots and just somehow never understanding that the delays are ****ing intentional.
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They'll disqualify as many ballots as they can.
 
jpn said:
The coup has begun.

Can Trump and the Republican Party steal this election?

If not, it won't be for lack of trying.
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The organization is losing a billion dollars a month under the "leadership" of these clowns. And the Democrats are whining that a reorganization is a strategy to steal the election? LOL
 
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Rawley said:
The organization is losing a billion dollars a month under the "leadership" of these clowns. And the Democrats are whining that a reorganization is a strategy to steal the election? LOL
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Since when is the Post Office a for-profit organization?
 
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