Why is Trump slowing the mail during a pandemic?

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    I run an online business and the tracking I see on my US deliveries confirms this. Recently the United States Postal Service has slowed to a crawl. It's now ridiculously slow compared to Australia Post.

    Essential supplies are not being delivered. Ordinary mail is weeks overdue. Medicine for veterans (they have a special mail delivered service) is up to a month late. Overtime is banned and staff are being told to leave mail behind if it will delay them by a few minutes. Key executives who run the day-to-day operations have been moved and not replaced.

    It's chaos. But it's being created intentionally in the midst of a pandemic by a top Trump donor who has been placed in charge.

    Why?

    USPS just made sweeping changes to its leadership as lawmakers call for an investigation into delayed mail ahead of the 2020 election
    Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced a massive reorganization to the US Postal Service’s leadership structure on Friday, amid calls from Democrats to investigate recent changes resulting in delayed mail deliveries. A surge of mail-in ballots is expected in the 2020 presidential election.

    According to a new organizational chart released Friday, USPS is reassigning or displacing 23 postal executives including the two top officials who oversee day-to-day operations, The Washington Post reported...

    Earlier this summer, DeJoy prohibited overtime and tweaked delivery policies, among a handful of cost-cutting measures that Democratic lawmakers said weakened the agency’s ability to field scores of mail-in ballots in November’s election. “We believe these changes, made during the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic, now threaten the timely delivery of mail – including medicines for seniors, paychecks for workers, and absentee ballots for voters,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer wrote in a letter sent to DeJoy on Thursday. “We believe these changes must be reversed,” they wrote. It’s not clear exactly how the organizational changes will impact the postal service, and its role in the election, but analysts told The Post that it centres power around DeJoy, a “major ally” of President Trump.

    (Source: Business Insider, "USPS just made sweeping changes to its leadership as lawmakers call for an investigation into delayed mail ahead of the 2020 election")

    Last edited by Orson: 10/08/20
 
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