Former top Postal Service official testifies Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail

[bucolic_frolic]

Repost from August, but did we all read the details?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

"If we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money," the president said. "That means they can't have universal mail-in voting; they just can't have it."

But Mnuchin did other things as well, Williams claimed. The former top USPS official said Mnuchin insisted all GOP appointees for the board and regulatory commission "come to his office to kiss the ring" before confirmation, and continued contacts with them about their performance.

Mnuchin was also interested in labor agreements, postage pricing and volume discounts given to the likes of Amazon, UPS and FedEx, Williams said.

"The Postal Service replied to early demands from the Secretary explaining that his demands were illegal, but the concerns were ignored," Williams testified.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with disgust!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

46. Yep. There will be no way we'll ever know all of the crimes the Crooked Trump Admin

has committed. And few of those many criminals will ever be brought to justice.

[Faux pas]

49. They

all are traitors, it's beyond effed up.

[spanone]

2. K&R

Criminal Bastards

[malaise]

3. THIS

Lock them up!

[Hugin]

4. It's becoming pretty clear that there was a triumvirate actually running much of the Turd Reich...

In the vacuum of leadership presented by the lazy assed fucker front man at the top.

It is/was Mnuchin, Barr, and Pompeo.

Possibly, a quadrumvirate if you add in Miller.

This is excluding the enabling and machinations of Moscow Mitch and his unique brand of evil.

[Lonestarblue]

9. We also don't know what Jared was doing behind the scenes.

He is just as evil as the others, including Ivanka.

[Hugin]

14. Very true.

Personally, I tend to lump the Trump clan (excluding that dimpled darling and apple of my eye, Mary L.) together as one large metastasizing pustulating tumor of narcissism, malice, and greed. Largely, inept. (However, Jar-jar destructively opining on the genocidal potential of the COVID-19 virus stands out as an exception.)

The actual makers-of-things-happening or made-men in the mob sense are the four I mentioned in the previous post.

[ShazzieB]

42. Just want to sayhat I love, love, Love your description of Mary L. Trump!

She is e everything you said and more.

MARY L. TRUMP

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Although, I Wouldn't Be Surprised If...

...the three mentioned just did the "Get away boy, you bother me." to Jared.
He might think he had input, but I can see him being ignored.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

43. He was setting up the shell corporation to pilfer $600 million

“Put in the car...”

[orangecrush]

37. Astute observation.

[nuxvomica]

5. I've been wondering something about Amazon and USPS

When you track your order at Amazon, there was always a tracking number linked to USPS near the bottom of the page so you could just click on the link and were taken to the USPS tracking site. But sometime around late Summer, the linking stopped and there is just a plain text tracking number, which I copy and paste into Google to get the USPS tracking, which often returns a different status ("in transit" vs "out for delivery" ). Is this just another petty annoyance Mnuchin or DeJoy cooked up?

[safeinOhio]

6. Proof that the elections were rigged.

Not by China.

[Traildogbob]

29. Facts

That is how GOP evilgelicals can still be on their God’s good side when they scream it was rigged. Just facts.

[Nuffer]

7. Usps

I mailed a package to my son in S.C. last Sunday...it sat for a few days in god knows where...it ended up in Cincinnati Ohio the day it was supposed to be delivered to my son...as of now it just went out for delivery. It was supposed to be a 3 day delivery.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. This is common right now

USPS guy told me they are swamped because it's holiday time, and people are not traveling - they are mailing packages instead. He said it's 10 times normal, but that seems an exaggeration to me. And he said packages were being stored in bins as they work their way through the excess. I believe that because in this rural post office there was a matrix of about 24 usps crates on one wall, laden with packages. Normally that wall is blank. So that's what they're doing - stockpiling it until they can move it.

I might also add USPS has been advertising for months for postal workers, reports elsewhere say new employees quit after a few days or weeks. There have been local reduced hours because of covid illness and unavailability of substitute employees.

[LovingA2andMI]

24. Correct....

There are many ads (yard signs) in front of the Post Offices in our area seeking Postal Workers.

[Progressive Jones]

45. That "10 times normal" is not much of an exaggeration.

FWIW: My spouse is "lower management" at a large USPS processing and distribution center in the Chicago suburbs.

She's been working mega hours and taking no days off for 2 weeks now ( not required to do this, but...). This is normally the
busiest week of any year, but this year the volume is much higher than normal.

[keithsw]

18. oddly enough

I'm in Florida and about a month ago sent our daughter a small package, she lives in Cincinnati. It took 11 days to get there

[Marthe48]

19. Heard that USPS is at 95% capacity

And the 2 weeks before Christmas are the busiest. Hope you all have timely presents and a Merry Christmas

[Ohiogal]

8. How is this fuckery not considered

“interfering with an election”??

[Thrill]

10. This is why he needs a real Tough AG

They can’t get away with all this crooked shit

[LovingA2andMI]

25. Doug Jones....

Crossing Fingers for Doug Jones for A.G.

[Bengus81]

11. Trump wants Election Fraud....HERE IT IS

[niyad]

13. Does this surprise any of us?

[DoBotherMe]

15. I'm seeing red!

[Dustlawyer]

16. Put his rich ass IN PRISON!!!

[onetexan]

35. +1 K&R

[enough]

17. K&R

[uponit7771]

20. K&R, if half of this is true that means jail time for Mnuchin

[Mme. Defarge]

22. Excuse my French,

mais, pardon?

[bluestarone]

21. The traitors ROOTS have reached every

CORNER of our Government! NOTHING is untouched! Joe and Kamala are going to be very busy once they are in there. I want an AG. that's ready to DESTROY the whole nest of RETHUGLICONS.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. The rot is everywhere. 45 needs to be arrested and all who aided him in undermining the election and

allowing our defenses to be compromised for Russia's benefit. I fear they will all get a pass and that is when I cease believing in "America."

[NCjack]

26. That damn Jared is in this shit pile.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. slimy and evil. Malfoy from Slytherin

[lastlib]

27. Lawlessness, thy name is tRump (mis)administration!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

28. They have totally destroyed USPS...

Earlier this year a letter was sent to me from Jackson, MI. I live less than 200 miles away it took about 16 days to get to me. I literally could have biked down there, visited some folks on the way and biked home in less time.

Now we are waiting on a package from my BIL in Texas sent priority...it’s been over 3 weeks.
Tracking is still in Tulsa Ok.

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. It's an extremely good thing that this criminal cabal was and is as inept as this.

"Illegal? Don't care - do it anyway. OH, prison? Now I'm starting to care...or I would be, if it wasn't for that pardon thingie."

[Blue Owl]

32. Fuck these goddamned fucking fuckers

That's right, Rubio -- they're GODDAMNED FUCKING FUCKERS.

People's medications were part of these stalled mail deliveries. People's lives were on the line.

But all you FUCKING FUCKERS care about is your own FUCKING SELFISH FUCKERY.

We the People are FUCKING finished with the likes of you.

[Captain Zero]

48. People medications are stalled RIGHT NOW

Mnuchin and DeJoy need to be charged.

Also I think it's now obvious that Mnuchin, Pompeo, and Jared were running this administration. Trump was just the PR guy.

[Dream Girl]

33. Well Trump does want a special counsel to investigate the election.

They can start with this.

[bucolic_frolic]

36. Holiday mail is running weeks behind

15 days for a small first class parcel. People are complaining all over. eBay/Amazon will be swamped with returns.

[Cha]

38. KR!

[Ilsa]

39. They all belong in federal prison for

messing with the mail, interfering in federal elections, and anything else that can be thrown. at them.

[Hassler]

40. Munchkin needs a pardon. Will Chump give it to him?

[PatrickforO]

41. As in TREASON. That is what it is. Let us call it that.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

44. Let's not forget the Rethugs primary goal: Privatize the Post Office....

and they will do anything to hide it. Just look at the man they put in charge.

This situation is so typical of how they demean, degrade and demolish traditional government functions. They know they must destroy public confidence in government before they can defund and privatize it.

I will say all my junk mail has been arriving perfectly on time.....

KY.........

[Captain Zero]

47. Mnuchin and Trump were trying to steal the Pension Fund

Too. I guarantee it.