Our Postal Service is NOW under major attack by Donald Trump, who on 6/15/20 inserted a donor-friend, Louis DeJoy, to head it up. DeJoy, announced a massive reorganization of USPS on 8/7/20, displacing 23 experienced postal executives, and cutting services. Many expensive mail-sorting machines were recently removed from postal-centers, mail-collection boxes eliminated in several swing states. DeJoy has suspended overtime pay for postal-workers, some are vociferating on the slowdown. USPS is extremely important in our lives, providing a critical resource. Veterans & many elderly receive their medications via mail. Some paying bills by mail have received fees for late payments. Look up: 18 U.S. CODES: 595 & 1701, and U.S. Code 10307. President Trump is against funding USPS, which has delivered mail through most disasters, but they didn’t see this one coming, from within. Trump was asked on 8/17, if he’d told the Post Office to slow down the mail; he responded, “No, I told them to speed it up”. Only days before, he’d proclaimed the Democrats could NOT have their Universal-Mail-in-Vote initiative, deeming it too risky; but when drivers licenses, passports, birth certificates, prescriptions, tax refunds, Social Security, pension & stimulus checks can be safely mailed, so can ballots.
Political mail has always been treated as protected First Class mail, but under new rules & practices, election mail (ballots) can now be treated as recyclable bulk mail. Democrat lawmakers have called for an investigation of DeJoy’s “weakening the agency’s ability” to process, timely, millions of mail-in ballots, amidst an impending second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. (The P.O. handles over a billion Christmas cards & pkgs annually; they can handle a couple million ballots during election-season.) Louis Dejoy, called to appear before a House Oversight Committee session on 8/24/20, now announces he’s suspending the changes until post-election, but that date stated that he will NOT reinstall the mail-sorting machines! USPS is a government SERVICE, a Constitutional piece of our infrastructure, not a for-profit business. (Our Army & Dept. of Agriculture don’t turn a profit!) “In 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed legislation forcing it to prepay its health-benefits for future retirees DECADES in advance.” Republicans consistently seek to circumvent, corrupt or privatize most government services. “In 1753, Benjamin Franklin, who had been postmaster of Philadelphia, became one of two joint postmasters general for the colonies. Franklin was appointed Postmaster General in 1775.” We MUST SAVE our Postal Service! Donald Trump, worried about his poll-numbers, is already trying to finagle & convolute the 2020 presidential election, at least to ‘muddy-up’ the results. Democrats need to vote EARLY, so early votes can be tabulated by election day, making Trump less able to claim a victory & create more chaos.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Aug 25 2020
2020 Election …. already under attack …. from within & without!
Our Postal Service is NOW under major attack by Donald Trump, who on 6/15/20 inserted a donor-friend, Louis DeJoy, to head it up. DeJoy, announced a massive reorganization of USPS on 8/7/20, displacing 23 experienced postal executives, and cutting services. Many expensive mail-sorting machines were recently removed from postal-centers, mail-collection boxes eliminated in several swing states. DeJoy has suspended overtime pay for postal-workers, some are vociferating on the slowdown. USPS is extremely important in our lives, providing a critical resource. Veterans & many elderly receive their medications via mail. Some paying bills by mail have received fees for late payments. Look up: 18 U.S. CODES: 595 & 1701, and U.S. Code 10307. President Trump is against funding USPS, which has delivered mail through most disasters, but they didn’t see this one coming, from within. Trump was asked on 8/17, if he’d told the Post Office to slow down the mail; he responded, “No, I told them to speed it up”. Only days before, he’d proclaimed the Democrats could NOT have their Universal-Mail-in-Vote initiative, deeming it too risky; but when drivers licenses, passports, birth certificates, prescriptions, tax refunds, Social Security, pension & stimulus checks can be safely mailed, so can ballots.
Political mail has always been treated as protected First Class mail, but under new rules & practices, election mail (ballots) can now be treated as recyclable bulk mail. Democrat lawmakers have called for an investigation of DeJoy’s “weakening the agency’s ability” to process, timely, millions of mail-in ballots, amidst an impending second wave of Covid-19 pandemic. (The P.O. handles over a billion Christmas cards & pkgs annually; they can handle a couple million ballots during election-season.) Louis Dejoy, called to appear before a House Oversight Committee session on 8/24/20, now announces he’s suspending the changes until post-election, but that date stated that he will NOT reinstall the mail-sorting machines! USPS is a government SERVICE, a Constitutional piece of our infrastructure, not a for-profit business. (Our Army & Dept. of Agriculture don’t turn a profit!) “In 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed legislation forcing it to prepay its health-benefits for future retirees DECADES in advance.” Republicans consistently seek to circumvent, corrupt or privatize most government services. “In 1753, Benjamin Franklin, who had been postmaster of Philadelphia, became one of two joint postmasters general for the colonies. Franklin was appointed Postmaster General in 1775.” We MUST SAVE our Postal Service! Donald Trump, worried about his poll-numbers, is already trying to finagle & convolute the 2020 presidential election, at least to ‘muddy-up’ the results. Democrats need to vote EARLY, so early votes can be tabulated by election day, making Trump less able to claim a victory & create more chaos.
Trish Forsyth Voss
By spiritspeak • Letter to the Editor 0