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?
It’s just ballots from areas known to vote Republican. No big deal.
Let’s not all get too excited here. Someone is probably planning to dump mail-in ballots from GOP areas this November. And this is just practice. Practice makes perfect!
Glendale is my stomping grounds . Please pray everything gets brought out into the light eek!
Are they able to track down that rental truck?
Voting was never meant to be by mail. That’s so obvious it’s frightening that it’s being ignored.
Years ago I was managing a clothing store and we sent each day’s receipt records to the main office by mail.
The owner called me because they hadn’t received anything for a week.
Investigation showed the mail carrier was on vacation and the replacement was unaware of the mailbox we were using. They found it stuffed to overflowing with mail.
Not meant to be used for voting.
The DNC and its stooge supporters and media shills are "going postal".
It really is too early and the situation too bizarre to say with reasonable certainty who is trying to accomplish what here. But...my gut tells me that this is a politically funded inside jab (job) at PDJT. It happened in SoCal...reason enough right there to be suspicious. Who knows...could be a friggin bomb in some of those packages with a radio frequency detonator. Hope they get to the bottom of it all and quick.
I don’t see a conspiracy here, but I do see USPS basically defeating themselves in the argument over their integrity when it comes to vote by mail.
I never had persistent, serious USPS delivery issues until I became a Trump donor.
Go figure.
Sometimes we attribute to malice what is really caused by incompetence...or good old-fashioned laziness. :)
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It seems to me the massive dumps may have been a cover for one or two particular pieces of mail that someone wanted. Grab a whole truckload, find what you want, and dump the rest. Two truckloads, half-mile apart, would take two people and indicates a conspiracy of some kind. It’s curious that they would dump both loads so near each other. Could be some kind of drug smuggling operation.
Practice for the collecting of pre-screened ballots to save for later. Trump’s are to be replaced with Biden’s duplicates. They only check signatures on Trump ballots so if they get a bunch of ballots delivered that they know are Biden, game over. This keeps them from getting caught over balloting again and secures a Biden win in California. Ponzi.
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I’m currently waiting on 3 different items through USPS that are 2+ weeks late and may never get here. The USPS is in big trouble. They are completely overwhelmed and have been since people started ordering a lot more due to the covid con.
To hear one Postal worker say it; “it’s like everyday is Christmas time” with the volume of mail.
Authorities are shocked — SHOCKED! — that there is gambling in the casino.
If mail were meant to be used for voting, wouldn’t the founders and successive generations have done so?
Their constituents had to travel for miles on foot or by horse just to vote and this was true in many parts of the country until the early 20th century. Would have made the process a lot easier if they could have done it by mail.
Of course, if you believe our ancestors to be dumbasses then it all makes perfect sense.
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