Pile of postal boxes photographed in Wisconsin.

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

?s=20

[locks]

1. Thank heaven

Rachel's on it. Trump couldn't have picked a more ridiculous act than destroying the USPS and that stupid DeJoy had to back down today. Keep up the good work, Dems.

[jorgevlorgan]

12. Dejoy backed down? How??

[patphil]

20. Did he really back down?

Rachel said they won't remove any more postal boxes. But, do they plan to put them back where they took them from?
We need to hear and see that.
And then there is the matter of the destroyed mail sorters, and the elimination of overtime.

Folks, the mail boxes are only a small part of the savaging of the Postal System. DeJoy can pretend to back down while merely shifting to a different tactic that has the same effect.
For example, they only retrieve the contents once or twice a week instead of daily.

DeJoy and Trump won't let this go. They are determined to wreck the USPS. They plan do permanent, fatal damage to it.
It's been on Trump's wish list for a long time.

[orleans]

26. AND they are getting rid of sorting machines

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/postal-service-sorting-machines/index.html

[DemoTex]

2. Motherfuckers.

What wanton, breathtaking criminality.

[chillfactor]

3. Makes me sick in my stomach

to see pictures like this. De joy needs to be removed pronto......he is just another BenedictDonald toady!

[tblue37]

5. And investigated & indicted! nt

[orleans]

27. yes! n/t

[tblue37]

4. K&R for visibility. nt

[JDC]

6. I'm surprised there isn't mail hanging out of them.

The way this admin is going

[Takket]

7. where the hell is the media???????????????????????

Why are there not camera in the faces of the people removing these boxes?

where are those boxes? have they asked to speak to whoever controls the yard where those are? who signed the contract to remove those???? they must have hired someone!

[SlogginThroughIt]

8. Is that truly a recent pic?

This seems like one of those pics that you find out is from like 10 years ago.

[uponit7771]

10. +1,

[plimsoll]

17. The only reference found for the photo in google images

leads back to the same tweet.

I encourage follow through and investigation. But this seems legit, how long the boxes have been there is another question. The image itself though does seem to be what it claims.

[Greybnk48]

25. I don't think it's recent. They took almost all of our mail boxes when Walker

the fuckhead first got in about 10 years ago. I'm not sure what the catalyst was, but we never got new ones. I couldn't find a mailbox in our town of 75,000+ if I tried other than the Post Office.

[randr]

9. Who are the people following these orders?

[live love laugh]

11. The regulations require a minimum 30-day advance notice of removal

and removals must be data based as a result of density testing of each box. There are employees whose only job is collecting the mail from these boxes.

[jorgevlorgan]

13. Um could that mean some of these boxes have mail in them?

[live love laugh]

14. Doubt that. The employees are trained to check them. nt

[jorgevlorgan]

15. All of this seems so surreal.

[spanone]

16. Pictures like this will be in history books & people will shake their heads.

[scarletwoman]

18. I'd like to know the actual provenance of this photo before I get worked up.

Where in Wisconsin was this taken? Who took the photo? What is the exact date it was taken?

When are we going to learn to not believe everything that gets posted on the internet?

[3Hotdogs]

19. Yes. In our area, old boxes were replaced with new ones that have a narrow

opening so that packages cannot be inserted.

Where do people suppose, the old ones went?

[Midnight Writer]

21. I used to work for USPS. Most offices have some extra boxes sitting around.

The USPS would track how much mail these boxes get over time, and if it stays low, they remove the box. Crime is also a factor. If a box develops a history of being broke into or damaged, they may remove the box. They have been phasing down the boxes for a long time.

They ended up removing thousands of boxes. And since the boxes are designed to be weatherproof, they often stack them outside. They may use them in case of new constructions, like a sub division.

If I saw this at a large office, I wouldn't think it out of place.

Watch specific boxes in service to see if they are removed.

[scarletwoman]

23. That's not the point. The point is, it was posted on Twitter, purporting to be a photo of newly

removed mailboxes in Wisconsin - as part of the new Postmaster General's program to limit mail service.

However, there is no possible way to verify this claim, and I doubt its veracity.

[jimbobboy18]

22. Don Trump

Don Trump is trying to put the other mafia bosses to shame.

[gopiscrap]

28. welcome to DU

[diva77]

24. Not much of a stretch to imagine those as dead bodies piled up from Covid. What a mangled, macabre

mess.