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Related: About this forumMaine postal workers reassemble high-speed sorting machine
Source: Associated Press
October 11, 2020
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) U.S. Postal Service workers have reassembled one of the two high-speed letter sorting machines that were ordered dismantled over the summer in Maine.
WMTW-TV reports the machine that can sort more than 20,000 letters an hour went back into operation on Thursday.
The American Postal Workers Union pushed management to restore the machine to help deliver election-related mail promptly.
It was one of two machines that were mothballed at the Southern Maine Mail Processing Center in Scarborough. The other was discarded for scrap metal.
https://apnews.com/article/maine-archive-voting-2020-73734f7c725609742316313361da6f3f
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)tRump* and DeJoy* were willing to DESTROY the United States Postal Service simply to inhibit the counting of mail-in ballots. They were willing to DESTROY the USPS!!!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)mitch96
(13,895 posts)Another UPS/FED EX...
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Hotler
(11,420 posts)mitch96
(13,895 posts)pension. A law was passed that the USPS had to keep it's pension FULLY FUNDED unlike other corporations or gov't entity's.. That is a very ripe fruit for the purchaser... It's like they set it up to fail and command big rewards to the purchaser..
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magicarpet
(14,145 posts)Destroy any last remaining vestiges of a thriving and functional DEMOCRACY.
The age of Fascistic hyper Capitalism with Nazi Faux Christian under tones has arrived.
Toss out the law books,.. welcome our new Nazi Hyper Religious Order,.. with great emphasis on the older orthodoxy of the,... Old Testaments.
Brimstone and fire if you step out of line of established formations.
Amen
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)5 high-speed sorters were removed from Memphis, a very blue spot in this crappy red state.
I wish workers would reassemble. Zero mail for over one week here - whole neighborhood. (I've been watching postman...)
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)Ignore the order. Let Dejoy come do it himself or try and stop it.
calimary
(81,225 posts)Just ignore the rules? And the laws? Well lets take a page from that and do it on our side, too!
tavernier
(12,383 posts)People will now be able to vote.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)at work.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)for destruction of government property and vandalism. Jail time and FULL RESTITUTION for the damage they did.