On top of all these concerning developments, there are reports that the U.S. Postal Service is slowing delivery of mail. The implications for everyday life (small businesses, people who get medicines by mail, and so on) are significant. But what about the Nov. 3 election in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic and more people voting …
On top of all these concerning developments, there are reports that the U.S. Postal Service is slowing delivery of mail. The implications for everyday life (small businesses, people who get medicines by mail, and so on) are significant. But what about the Nov. 3 election in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic and more people voting by mail? It's hardly a coincidence now that Trump has his handpicked guy running the USPS. For some reason, this development (I live in Portland) has made me more anxious than any other lately in the daily deluge of increasingly dire news. Professor, please weigh in on the implications. https://fortune.com/2020/07/24/usps-mail-delivery-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-us-postal-service/
thanks for posting this. Due to sickness & retirements and inability to hire, our local post office has been struggling -- carriers are doing double runs, and we sometimes get mail in the evening, and one or two days a week there's no delivery. This is in a town bordering Philly. I didn't realize it was a nationwide coordinated plan. And that these carriers working 12+ hours aren't getting overtime either? Ugh.
The Fortune article points out, “The Postal Service is required by the Constitution to serve everyone in the country equally and with uniform rates.“ The article also details financial challenges implemented by the George W. Bush administration and now exacerbated by Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
We need to pay more attention as disabling the USPS is another tool added to the Trumpian arsenal for voter suppression.
On top of all these concerning developments, there are reports that the U.S. Postal Service is slowing delivery of mail. The implications for everyday life (small businesses, people who get medicines by mail, and so on) are significant. But what about the Nov. 3 election in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic and more people voting by mail? It's hardly a coincidence now that Trump has his handpicked guy running the USPS. For some reason, this development (I live in Portland) has made me more anxious than any other lately in the daily deluge of increasingly dire news. Professor, please weigh in on the implications. https://fortune.com/2020/07/24/usps-mail-delivery-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-us-postal-service/
Another way to suppress mail-in ballots.
thanks for posting this. Due to sickness & retirements and inability to hire, our local post office has been struggling -- carriers are doing double runs, and we sometimes get mail in the evening, and one or two days a week there's no delivery. This is in a town bordering Philly. I didn't realize it was a nationwide coordinated plan. And that these carriers working 12+ hours aren't getting overtime either? Ugh.
The Fortune article points out, “The Postal Service is required by the Constitution to serve everyone in the country equally and with uniform rates.“ The article also details financial challenges implemented by the George W. Bush administration and now exacerbated by Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
We need to pay more attention as disabling the USPS is another tool added to the Trumpian arsenal for voter suppression.