Posted on 04/06/2024 5:41:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
… Across the country, residents and businesses have been reporting widespread slowdowns in mail and package delivery by the U.S. Postal Service. The delays have become so persistent that members of Congress have gotten involved, urging the Postal Service to drastically correct course and raising concern about what impact the disruptions could have on mail-in ballots in the upcoming election.
The delays appear to largely stem from a new system the Postal Service began rolling out last fall that will eventually funnel all the nation’s letters and packages through a consolidated network of 60 regional distribution centers — similar to the airlines’ hub-and-spoke model. The change is part of a wider $40 billion, 10-year overhaul of the network that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has said will reduce costs, improve reliability and make the Postal Service more competitive. But in some instances, the plan has done the opposite, according to the Office of the Inspector General for the Postal Service, members of Congress and Postal Service advocacy groups.
“It’s just a dumpster fire right now,” said Leo Raymond, a former Postal Service manager and managing director of Mailers Hub, an industry group for direct mail companies. He said his members have had everything from customer bills to strategically timed marketing material caught up in the delays. “If you’re a business, you’re going to be discouraged from using the mail because you want your stuff to actually get there.”
Nationwide, 87% of first class, two-day mail arrived on time during the last three months of 2023, a 2.5 percentage-point decrease from the same period a year earlier, according to data published by the Postal Service inspector general. For mail intended to take three to five days, just 70% arrived on time, a decrease of 11 percentage points, the data showed.
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We’re not voting our way out of this.
I’m sure that at least 8 of the 10 ballots each democrat sends in will arrive on time.
The narrative is building to prepare the peasants for the chaos.
It’s like a video game...Grand Theft Election.
How many pay raises have we given the USPS? Recently?
No improvement in the processing of mail and constant delays in deliveries. The Pony Express was faster.
These delays that everyone is experiencing are deliberate and on purpose. Any other reason is NOT acceptable.
I clearly remember on Election Night 1980 when NBC opened its election coverage. Nearly the first words out of the mouth of John Chancellor ... “We believe tonight will be a very good night for Governor Reagan...”, as the Gipper went on to win 44 states.
If you remember ... a couple of months into 2021, the US post office announced nationwide that you should never again expect prompt delivery of mail (even first class mail) as had been the norm, previously.
Now, I have been making payments by mail weeks ahead of the due date for ALL accounts and I make CC payments AT the bank, to avoid the problems caused by inefficient postal service.
BTW - In Feb 2021, I sent a FED EX priority envelope from my city (in OH.) to Columbus Ohio. It was expensive and I asked what the delivery date would be. The clown at the PO said: "Oh, I can't tell you. I can't guarantee a delivery date."
THAT'S what he called 'priority' mail!!!!!! In all things, mediocrity is the new 'normal'.
Richmond General Registrar Keith Balmer told residents in February not to send their ballots for the March presidential primary by mail and to instead use one of three drop boxes in the city or to vote in person at an early voting location or a polling site on Election Day. For the upcoming election, Balmer said he will be strongly urging voters to use drop boxes.
“I understand that these issues extend beyond mere inconvenience; they represent a fundamental threat to our democracy,” Balmer said in a blog post on Feb. 26.
Peters and Balmer seem worried that the cheat machine won't be working smoothly
Do you suppose the drop boxes could spontaneously combust? ;)
*But only mail service in Red areas will be affected.* Think purple.
Ok people. We’ve signed on to mail-ins and harvesting. Defective counting machines? We’ll just have to hand deliver them to the county office EARLY. Doable.
I bet they'll all be close to a vote counting center.
Next step - vote by email. Much more convenient. Don’t worry about security. No one will cheat.
My now long gone father in law worked for the post office. He said that the zip code was invented because they were hiring people that couldn’t read and it was a way to get the mail sorted so it could be delivered.
COMCAST........ not credible source
This is “prep work” for the election.......gaslighting:
<><>Fake polls to make loser Joe’s winning appear somewhat plausible,
<><>inventing a dire situation necessitating vote-by-mail extremes,
<><>preparing us for postal delays in getting all those crucial mail-in ballots in place
<><>interminable counting until they reach the needed winnable numbers.
I live in a downstate Illinois metro area. The PO wants to shutdown the mail processing facility and have it done in Chicago. Both the the dem and rep congress women in the area are against this.
Postal unions now control the vote
Right.
Next step: open your veins and give them your blood
Right now the Letter Carrier Union is in arbitration with USPS for cost of living raise and pay raises throughout the four year contract. We didn’t get a COLA raise for 23-24, inflation was 3.4%, U.S. government worker equivalent to Letter Carrier received a pay raise of 5.1%. We have not had a contract since May of 2023. Last COLA was November of 2022.
“EEOC and “diversity” hires are running that gov’t disaster. “
Actually if you go to the postal service website, and look at its leadership you will see a predominantly white and male group.
The current Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, is a white male appointed by President Donald Trump. If you go to the Postal Service website most of the senior executives appear to be white and mail — https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/pmg-exec-leadership-team.htm
The USPS Board of Governors also is predominantly white and male: https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/
Really? No!
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