DeJoy strikes again! USPS Is Suspending Services Here, Effective Immediately

[diehardblue]

Most people in the U.S. believe that "neither snow nor rain nor heat" will keep U.S. Postal Service (USPS) carriers from delivering their mail. Unfortunately, that is not the actual motto for the USPS—and it's not necessarily true either. The agency can and will alter operations when deemed necessary, whether that involves suspending delivery to specific areas or temporarily closing certain postal facilities. In fact, a number of people throughout the country are currently battling service disruptions with their mail, and a new area has just been added to the list. Read on to find out where the USPS is suspending services now.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/usps-is-suspending-services-here-effective-immediately/ss-AA13sgbG?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=29bbce3b01114548b2f48ab4f3bf1b32

[jpak]

1. Trump's solution to mail-in ballots

Yup

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Haven't seen you in awhile

and missed you!

(yes I do read your posts )

Hope you are humming along okay!

[jpak]

22. Doing OK

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Good to hear!!

The Maine-ah is back!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Its not happening here hopefully

Fucking cheating ass republican trash.

[Indykatie]

3. Here's A Link to the Original Article With Details of Closure

The MSN link doesn't provide any information other than the snippet was posted.

https://bestlifeonline.com/usps-post-office-closed-alabama-news/

[Wonder Why]

34. Thank you for one of a few who actually read the original article and used

your head instead of trying to emulate some who seem to be copying the Republicans by perpetuating misleading information.

DeJoy is worthless but not because he did anything terrible. The article's title is pure hype and nothing but Yellow Journalism.

The last thing we need is Republicans saying to Democrats: "See? Your no different than we are!"

I want to see a Democratic Party made up of intelligent, discerning individuals who stand out from the maniacs on the other side who spout lies, misinformation and hate.

Please!

[Croney]

4. It's in Birmingham, AL

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/local-releases/al/2022/1026-suspended-operations-birmingham-bluff-park-finance-station.htm

[BumRushDaShow]

5. This is a bit click-baity

not that FUCKING DEJOY should be gone but having to dig through the link to an online "digital" lifestyle/health site, one has to wade through decipher a lot of gobbledygook.

Basically there are a bunch of individual post offices that are temporarily closed and service is redirected to another post office and/or to a regional office - mostly due to damage from fires, flooding (like what happened in KY over the summer and there were many locations affected), damage from some vehicle crashing into a PO lobby, and damage from Hurricanes Fiona and Ian.

So out of the hundreds of words of hysteria in the articles - here is the USPS "disruption" page that is referenced - https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/residential/welcome.htm

(in the below list - many of the "notice" links are announcing resumption of service and I could only find a couple where there was an entry that service was "suspended until further notice" )

Service alerts

Residential service disruptions

Select one of the entries below to display disruption information for that location or event.

Florida
10-27, 5:30 p.m. ET

Alabama
10-26, 6:30 p.m. ET

Hawaii
10-21, 7 p.m. ET

New York
10-15, 10:30 a.m. ET

Ohio
10-14, 10:30 a.m. ET

Iowa
10-11, 1:30 p.m. ET

Wisconsin
10-7, 12 p.m. ET

South Carolina
10-1, 1 p.m. ET

Washington
9-30, 4 p.m. ET

Kentucky
9-29, 4:30 p.m. ET

Puerto Rico
9-28, 6:30 p.m. ET

Georgia
9-28, 4:30 p.m. ET

California
9-21, 3 p.m. ET

Rhode Island
9-21, 10:30 a.m. ET

Texas
9-19, 4:30 p.m. ET

Oregon
9-16, 4:30 p.m. ET

Louisiana
8-31, 5:30 p.m. ET

Michigan
8-18, 5:30 p.m. ET

Illinois
8-11, 11:30 a.m. ET

South Dakota
7-14, 7:30 p.m. ET

Minnesota
7-8, 2 p.m. ET

[agingdem]

6. Early voting numbers are huge!!!

screw De Joy..

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I have been a PA (no excuse absentee) mail-in ballot voter

and got my ballot on Oct. 12 (a Wednesday), mailed it Oct. 14 (a Friday), and got a notification back from the state that my ballot was "received timely and recorded" on Oct. 18 (a Tuesday).

So the mail got my ballot in okay from where I live in Philly!

The city also has various locations with drop-boxes and supervised voting ballot-drop off locations (that also allowed people to register to vote and/or apply for an absentee ballot up until the deadlines for that).

[gab13by13]

8. I also voted by mail in Pa.

I got the same information about my ballot being recorded. Remember, in Pa. because of the Magat legislators, our ballots are not allowed to be counted until election day. Pa. will take days to count its votes, our votes will be last to be counted.

[agingdem]

9. but like 2020 they will be counted...

again..screw DeJoy!!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Oh I know

and even the deep red GOP County Elections officials have asked the GOP loons in the legislature why they can't pre-canvass the ballots but that is THEIR party's idiotic decision.

Luckily we were able to get a pile of additional ballot-reading machines in 2020 but the biggest efforts come from getting the ballots out of the multiple envelopes and then sorting them.

[stopdiggin]

14. thank you. suspected that this was something similar

to what you describe. But, I didn't have the time or patience to chase it down.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. You're welcome. The original source site

is part of a collection of similarly-themed "online" health/lifestyle e-zines owned by a company started by a guy who apparently used to work for the print versions of mags like "Men's Health", "Prevention", etc. So with that kind of focus, having them dabble into a subject like this can be dodgy.

There have been a number of weather-related calamities this past year that have faded in the background of the news, like those floods and tornadoes in KY and the wildfires of California... or Hurricanes in Puerto Rico and Florida, so inevitably any postal facilities in those areas could be heavily damaged and out of service - at least temporarily.

In the case of the Birmingham Office highlighted in the article, they don't indicate a reason but as a FYI for the state of AL, there is NO "early voting" (in person or by "no excuse" mail ballot) and the "absentee ballot" voting requires one of the listed eligible "excuses", so whatever is going on there, it shouldn't necessarily affect voting but obviously would be an inconvenience for mail deliveries for that part of the city.

[stopdiggin]

20. the entire premise that the USPS is/was

being weaponized in service of electoral outcome is thin, to the point of almost being tin foil.

The Postal Service has it's problems, yes - but there isn't a shred of evidence ...

[BumRushDaShow]

21. I do know that Congress is riding herd

and the new legislation that was passed recently should make a big difference in addressing many of the problems that they were burdened with.

[onenote]

18. Agreed. And the list isn't even predominantly blue v. red

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Plus many of the "notices"

are not "closures" but are actually indicating that "Service has been restored at these locations" and then provides the list of facilities that are back up and running.

[Deuce]

24. Thanks for the info...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

25. Thanks for going to all that trouble. And good morning.

Big week coming up.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Good morning!

The big issue regarding some post offices near me are the theft rings where participants managed to steal master keys for the USPS blue mailboxes (and postal "relay boxes" in some locations that contain overflow bags of mail for delivery), and target mail pieces with checks written for bills to use for "washing" (replacing the "Pay to the order of" line with someone's name and changing the amount to something ridiculous in the thousands of dollars). So if anything, some way to secure those boxes beyond just keeping stuff from being poured into them, is in order.

And yup - Nov. 4 coming up (although little did you realize that I blame you and progree for my jumping on the I-bond train, although I don't think either of you even mentioned it)...

But it was interesting that the rate was going to DROP from 9.62% down to about 6.5% and since "I" = "inflation adjusted", that means....

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. That was happening in Montgomery County, Maryland, too.

They had a whole bunch of instances.

I got into Treasury Direct at just about the last minute on Friday. It took several attempts. I bought as many Series I bonds as I could.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Okay.... amazing how sophisticated check-washing has gotten

And I sortof bought the I-bond as a lark. I still have one old un-redeemed (paper) EE from 1989.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

30. Pro tip: convert it to electronic form, unless you get nostalgic looking at it. NT

[BumRushDaShow]

31. I may have to do that anyway

When I used to work near the Federal Reserve Bank downtown here, I had cashed in the earlier ones right there at their teller windows (and got chance to go in there for the heck of it). I think they re-did their lobby some time ago and I don't think they have retail windows there anymore.

[sl8]

11. A post office temporarily closed due to safety concerns doesn't necessarily indicate a conspiracy.

It would be nice if they had specified what the safety concern was, but it has only been a day. I'd wait a few days before getting bent out of shape over possible hidden agendas.


https://www.wbrc.com/2022/10/26/usps-temporarily-suspends-operations-bluff-park/
USPS temporarily suspends operations at Bluff Park

[intheflow]

12. Yes, the source is click-bait.

Written like a tabloid. One PO has roof damage, one is closed due to a fire. Services aren’t disrupted, mail is still being delivered. The courthouse in my city is closed due to a rampant mold problem. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[brooklynite]

13. Did you bother to read the underlying article?

These were retail post offices that are closed due to fire or other damage. Says nothing about postal delivery, and certainly isn't the kind of decision DeJoy and the Board of Governors would be making.

[stopdiggin]

15. +1. this is - disappointing. -(nt)-

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

27. "Building damaged due to earthquakes" sounds like a good enough reason to close to me

[Genki Hikari]

32. Oh for crying out loud

Post offices close ALL THE TIME because crap happens to them: Fires, floods, weather damage, thefts or vandalism. All of them can happen at any time.

I worked at a post office that had to shut down because we had a horrible wind storm that peeled off the rooftop climate control units and ventilation shafts like they were stuck on with Elmer's glue, not bolted to the surface.

We had to wait for fire and safety inspectors to determine if we could get into the building at all. Fire and building inspectors declared the interior safe, at least structurally. Why we had to shut down the facility entirely was because it was summer and thus hotter than hell in there without AC, which made it impossible for employees to work indoors safely.

So the facility itself got shut down. The employees, mail and some of our other services got relocated either to the main post office or a neighboring station, depending on the kind of service involved. There was a brief delay in service until we got the processes sorted out in the new facilities, and then again when we returned "home," but the mail never stopped moving.

So there's no conspiracy here. DeJoy might be a destructive moron, but the rest of the USPS isn't so stupid that they'll shut down the mail over a facility hiccup. They always have contingencies for these things.

ALWAYS.

[Ms. Toad]

33. Did you even bother to read past the headline?

This is one of many post offices which are temporarily closed because it is, it there is good reason to believe it may be, unsafe.

Closings are temporary, either to complete repairs or to keep employees and postings safe until they determine the building is safe to occupy. Patrons are served out of a different branch until the branch can safely be reopened.

When you file click bait down a rabbit hole, please look around while you're there and make sure the real story merits the alarm before spreading it.