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

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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.