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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis afternoon the USPS says it has ample capacity to handle mail-in voting.
I see this as a rope-a-dope.
It goes like this:
Tell everybody you have the capacity, then purposely delay and sabotage, and, finally, after mail-in votes are lower than expected you affirm that everything was delivered.
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This afternoon the USPS says it has ample capacity to handle mail-in voting. (Original Post)
Goodheart
Aug 2020
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. Precisely
I will vote absentee and hand deliver my ballot to the BOE.
Goodheart
(5,264 posts)2. That's my plan as well. But we can't all do that.
ananda
(28,779 posts)3. I will take my mail-in ballot to the drop-off center.
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stillcool
(32,626 posts)4. everything's just fine...
Trumps guy has it all under control.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/postal-service-says-it-has-ample-capacity-to-handle-election-after-trump-casts-doubt/ar-BB17wKmM?li=BBnb7Kz
And on Friday, American Post Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein told CNN that new, recently implemented US Postal Service procedures -- which have led to delays across the country in mail delivery -- could affect mail-in voting for the November election. He said that the union, which represents more than 200,000 Postal Service employees and retirees, has received a number of reports from postal workers and customers over the last two weeks that mail delivery has slowed and "degraded."
Under the leadership of the new postmaster general, Trump loyalist Louis DeJoy, USPS is seeing a slowing of mail delivery in some places. The agency has recently implemented new efforts that workers blame for delivery delays of at least two days across the country -- prompting fears that many ballots may not reach election offices in time if the problems aren't corrected by November.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/postal-service-says-it-has-ample-capacity-to-handle-election-after-trump-casts-doubt/ar-BB17wKmM?li=BBnb7Kz
And on Friday, American Post Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein told CNN that new, recently implemented US Postal Service procedures -- which have led to delays across the country in mail delivery -- could affect mail-in voting for the November election. He said that the union, which represents more than 200,000 Postal Service employees and retirees, has received a number of reports from postal workers and customers over the last two weeks that mail delivery has slowed and "degraded."
Under the leadership of the new postmaster general, Trump loyalist Louis DeJoy, USPS is seeing a slowing of mail delivery in some places. The agency has recently implemented new efforts that workers blame for delivery delays of at least two days across the country -- prompting fears that many ballots may not reach election offices in time if the problems aren't corrected by November.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)5. They do have capacity. And, doubt trump would go for rope-a-dope contradicting
trumps own comments.
unblock
(51,973 posts)6. of course they have the "capacity". donnie's toady will simply prevent it from being used.
can't pay overtime or do more than one trip when there's a backlog of ballots to delay!
Shermann
(7,355 posts)7. Isn't ramping up the USPS to deliver ballots for the general election...
...a logistically smaller task than ramping up to manufacture and distribute billions of doses of vaccines?
And don't both responsibilities fall on the Federal government?
What is Trump trying to convince us of exactly, that he's as useless as an asshole on your elbow?
jrandom421
(999 posts)8. You think it's going to be bad around election time
Just wait till the delay and sabotage run into Christmas mail delivery.