New leak: Top USPS official orders local post offices not to reconnect mail sorting machines

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Source: raw story






Published 1 min ago on August 20, 2020


Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is being investigated for attempting to intentionally slow down the U.S. mail to discourage voting by mail and disrupt any ballots being sent through the U.S. Postal Service.

While DeJoy announced that he would roll back all of his actions, he not only hasn’t done it, leaked emails obtained by VICE News revealed that local post offices were told not to plug back in mail sorting machines that were taken offline.

“Please message out to your respective Maintenance Managers tonight. They are not to reconnect/reinstall machines that have previously been disconnected without approval from HQ Maintenance, no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager,” Director of Maintenance Operations Kevin Couch put in an email. “Please have them flow that request through you then on to me for a direction.”......................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/new-leak-top-usps-official-orders-local-post-offices-not-to-reconnect-mail-sorting-machines/

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[Laelth]

1. k&r for visibility. n/t

-Laelth

[magicarpet]

2. Gumming up the works at the USPS so the GOPee/trDump can pull off a win.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Only one solution

[riversedge]

4. instructons apply to machines that have been disconnected but still fully functional..........

damn. this should be a crime. But will it??


I obtained emails sent hours after DeJoy's supposed policy reversal containing explicit instructions not to reconnect mail sorting machines that are still in processing facilities and perfectly functional.

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[mr_lebowski]

5. To be fair, we cannot as laypersons know exactly what this means ...

There may be a need for guidance in the process of bringing them back online.

Kinda like if a CEO of an airline announced on TV that 'everyone gets to fly free today', it doesn't mean the people at the kiosks should immediately stop asking passengers for their tickets.

I would be entirely unsurprised if there's something nefarious about this ... but there might not.

[Jirel]

6. Time for an employee revolt.

I'm quite serious. The union employees need to just do it in a coordinated act of civil disobedience with the full backing of the union, prepared to fight this both in the media and in court. I don't think this is going to go well otherwise. I suspect there are discussions about this, but we can't influence what the workers choose to do.

[qazplm135]

7. what's even the argument here?

That the machines operating costs are so expensive that they must be turned off?

That can't possibly be true.

[subterranean]

8. I can't imagine it's more expensive than having employees sort the mail by hand.

The only possible reason is to deliberately slow down mail delivery. I have not heard any other plausible argument for doing this. The fact that it's happening at the same time they banned overtime is even more damning.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. "The only possible reason is to deliberately slow down mail delivery."

Ballots postmarked Nov. 4 are SOL.