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Scruffy1

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11. Processing the mail is not a problem.

Reply to swag (Original post)

Tue Aug 4, 2020, 02:38 PM

Aug 2020

The USPS unlike UPS and Fedex is highly automated and can easily handle the current volume. The problem is at the delivery end. They have been more and more relying on temps to do mail delivery since 2012 and still don't have enough people to deliver the mail without a lot of overtime. Letter carriers are the largest group of postal emplyees so when budget crunches happen it's the easiest thing to cut to save some dough.

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Quite a thread on the postal service [View all] swag Aug 2020 OP

The USPS is under severe stress Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #1

It was not like this until the tRump donor took over USPS to break it much more. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #5

See post #3 Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #7

The new wrecking ball, Louis DeJoy, has put in new rules with IMMEDIATE EFFECT Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #14

My mail has come fine so far. ananda Aug 2020 #6

You have been lucky Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #9

Agree. ananda Aug 2020 #10

How will this not be devastating for rural America? CrispyQ Aug 2020 #2

Pres. Obama did not leave a plan for Trump, in case the mail backed-up. Not NCjack Aug 2020 #4

At out local Mail Station, Wellstone ruled Aug 2020 #3

This has potential to clog voter delivery, mail-ins, evictions, and voting credentials bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #8

Processing the mail is not a problem. Scruffy1 Aug 2020 #11

It might be more complex than this. Prior stories stated that under the new Mike 03 Aug 2020 #13

We should try to figure this out with our great resources here. Mike 03 Aug 2020 #12