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USPS Is 'Investigating' an Alarming Mail Issue in SoCal -- Bags of mail being dumped in two different locations in Glendale, California
Townhall ^ | 09/06/2020 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 09/06/2020 7:47:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Over the last few months President Donald Trump and Republicans have wondered how the United States Postal Service (USPS) will be able to handle the influx of mail this fall with the election in November, especially as more states move to voting by mail. 

The concerns seem valid, especially considering the USPS is now launching an investigation into bags of mail being dumped in two different locations in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

One of the instances was caught on a surveillance camera outside of a spa. A Budget rental truck can be seen backing up before a man jumps out and unloads the bags of mail and boxes.

It was completely unusual. If they’re taking for their personal use, basically, why’d they have to drop off all the unopened packages somewhere," Lilia Serobian, the co-owner of 7Q salon told CBS Los Angeles. "Of course it’s suspicious. You start thinking, ‘OK, something is going on,’ because no one has access to all those boxes and packages.”

Police said the incident at 7Q happened shortly after a similar dump was made less than half a mile away. 

Glendale Police Sgt. Christian Hauptmann told the Los Angeles Times the incident involved “possible stolen mail or whatever [that] was dumped in an alleyway."

This is the most recent incident involving the USPS. A mid-August report from the LAT explained other issues the USPS was having in California alone:

Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.

At a mail processing facility in Santa Clarita in July, workers discovered that their automated sorting machines had been disabled and padlocked.

And inside a massive mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles, workers fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes.

Accounts of conditions from employees at California mail facilities provide a glimpse of what some say are the consequences of widespread cutbacks in staffing and equipment recently imposed by the postal service.

On top of that, the USPS was removing roughly 10 percent of its mail sorting machinery and eliminating overtime pay for employees. Add those sweeping changes plus most of the country switching to voting by mail and the system is definitely going to be overwhelmed. In fact, the USPS is overwhelmed as it is with more people shopping online because of the pandemic. Factor in millions of ballots from all across the country and this is likely to cause the system to go crazy. Only time will tell how long it'll take for every ballot to be counted.


Regardless of what this situation is, it's not looking good. Either mail has been stolen and that's a major, major concern for election security or a carrier decided not to do his job so he dumped the mail, which is also a concern for ballots. How do we know this won't happen with something as sacred as our elections? 



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: again; california; glendale; losangeles; mailinballots; usps
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To: SeekAndFind
Why California?

If there is any state where a Biden victory is assured, it's California. Why bother to cheat there?

That's why I assume it's simple laziness on the postman's part, not a DNC plot to "steal the election".

JMO

21 posted on 09/06/2020 8:30:53 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SeekAndFind

I am sure it is true of all states but in Michigan they several times have charged and convicted US Postal Service employees for putting mail into garbage dumps or dumpsters. This was done to keep up with the work quotas the dumb employees could not meet on time. Mail tossed out, efficiency rating goal met.

So they have practice and can apply this to GOP area mail ballots. Carriers remember addresses that had “President Trump Thanks You For Your Contribution to Making America Great Again” on the upper left of envelopes.


22 posted on 09/06/2020 8:34:35 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: SeekAndFind

My step-grandfather was a mail carrier. He was hired after he managed to survive so many 8th Air Force Bomber missions that he had to wear hearing aides for the rest of his life and we kids made fun of how he talked. Even he had a disability and was hired partially because of his veterans points, but he earned it and he took his job very seriously.

I don’t know what the Post Offices in other parts of the country are like... but I have not seen a white male working in the one by our house for years. You are lucky if you get a black person because their accents are not so thick that you can understand them. Affirmative action has consequences. The post office has been concentrating on hiring minorities and women and not efficiency or doing their jobs. It evolved into a social program around here long ago.


23 posted on 09/06/2020 9:00:00 AM PDT by fireman15
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24 posted on 09/06/2020 9:19:13 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: chrisser

Good for the PO....dump all those mail in DemoRat lies....


25 posted on 09/06/2020 9:20:17 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: chrisser

Good for the PO....dump all those mail in DemoRat lies....


26 posted on 09/06/2020 9:20:17 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: SeekAndFind

If not stopped,the USPS will give Biden the election.


27 posted on 09/06/2020 9:32:48 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: fireman15

My mailman is a white male (town of 150,000).

In the past 2 months I’ve been into the post office itself; there were two white males and one black (one female, one male) at the counter.


28 posted on 09/06/2020 9:51:44 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: SeekAndFind

California just doing early voting like it always does or as they call it grab and dump before anyone notices.


29 posted on 09/06/2020 9:52:53 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

That is good to hear. It looks like they are all being phased out at our post office.

When I called because we hadn’t received any mail for two weeks, I was transferred from one heavy accent to another. Our mail had been diverted to another address by a scammer who dropped a change of address card off at the post office. It seemed that the postal employees could not care less. It took me four phone calls to get even a minimal amount of information. I finally had to do another change of address online to get our mail sent to another address that we had control of. They would not let me just cancel the change of address and would not tell me where our mail was being delivered to.

Our postal service is a disaster! At least where we live.


30 posted on 09/06/2020 10:25:39 AM PDT by fireman15
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Never put out a Republican signage. Your everything will be missing or mishandled. Put up Democrat signage and you’ll get the highest priority treatment like it was registered mail.


31 posted on 09/06/2020 10:52:41 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: USCG SimTech

RNC mail to you screws up that logic.


32 posted on 09/06/2020 11:34:26 AM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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