So now because they were caught...this is happening.
So if you vote absentee or by mail, don't drop your ballot in the post office. You can actually drop it off at a local board of elections in most states.
Whether you vote for Biden or Trump, don't let fascism stop your ballot by mail from being counted.
Call your representative and senator to voice your concerns.
This will also mess with prescriptions you receive in the mail.
It is made up crapola. I was a Postmaster in 2004 (I have 35 years experience) and the Postal Service was removing collection boxes around the country for various reasons starting in the later 90's.
We removed our collection boxes because we were told the public could drive the extra distance and deposit their mail at the main Post office. The Postal Service had collections twice a day and they saved collection hours by elimination...thereby saving money. There were other reasons as well.
Rocket is speaking of something he has no idea about!
Why does Trump need to give them money when they claim to have ample ability to handle it?
The only important quote from that entire biased slanted delusional article is what the USPO said:
"The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume, including any additional volume that may result as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic," the agency said in a statement.
Christmas holidays and federal tax deadlines are just as big mail traffic times.
Let me get this straight, you are saying that the US Post Office is so well equipped and such a well oiled machine that we can can remove mailboxes and sorting machines and there will still be no issue with mail-in voting?
Am I perfect? No Am I trying to be a better person? Also no
We'll see how they cope. It's not just removing sorting equipment so it has to be done by hand ... and removing them now. months from the election. The new powers that be - the hand picked henchmen of Trump - are changing directives that may well influence and impact vote by mail ballots. . . . Personally I think if the post office can handle Christmas it can handle the vote by mail election. What is likely to happen through these changes, people that don't send in ballots early enough to account for the slower than usual service will not have their votes counted.
Why does Trump need to give them money when they claim to have ample ability to handle it?
The only important quote from that entire biased slanted delusional article is what the USPO said:
"The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume, including any additional volume that may result as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic," the agency said in a statement.
Would you sincerely stake the fate of the nation on the truthfulness/accuracy of that statement?
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers...Socrates
It pains me to think that someone like Cody Tims might have been disenfranchised if he was still alive...
Besides, why are you grousing? Democrats don't send in their ballots. They hide them in trunks and closets in case the election is close, then they conveniently happen to find a few dozen Democrat votes here and there... How do you think Al Franken was elected?
"Hey, I'm a reasonable guy. But I've just experienced some very unreasonable things." -Jack Burton
-It looks like the Harvard Boys know what they are doing after all.
They keep ignoring that several states have had successful mail in voting for years and just wish to keep furthering a false conspiracy theory.
Yes, I am in one of those states.
But I will also say, that in the past 5-8 years I have noticed a steady decline of the blue mail box drop-offs. I presumed because UPS and FedEx post office store are in almost every other shopping plaza, so the boxes are an upkeep issue, so they have slowly done away with them like phone booths.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
I certainly can understand removing boxes that get very little use. What I do find odd is the timing of it all. They know there will be a huge influx of mail coming over the next few months. From what I have seen they've actually agreed to stop eliminating them until after the election.
What troubles me far more is the elimination of mail sorting machines. This will certainly slow the sorting of mail in preparation of delivery down. The timing just seems too convenient to be coincidental.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
So removing sorting machines isn't a fact? It's manufactured? Odd how you just lay down smack but won't address what's happening. But I should have come to expect that by now.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
So removing sorting machines isn't a fact? It's manufactured? Odd how you just lay down smack but won't address what's happening. But I should have come to expect that by now.
Read the title of the thread. Removing sorting machines is not fascism. None of the links posted in this thread state the machines are being removed by Trumps orders. Liberals complain about right wing conspiracy theories, yet here we are witnessing liberal conspiracies in the making.
It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great!
The Post Office is broken and its financial losses are unsustainable according to the GAO.
It is Billions in debt and loses money on every delivery it makes.
Now, just when the American People need the money to pay their mortgages, rent and bills, Dem leadership wants to send those much need funds to the Post Office???
Their agenda is more important than us???
When one looks at the evidence all around this Country today, we can easily see who the real Fascists are!
So 40...where do you stand on Americans having medicine delayed, essential packages not being delivered, and Americans prevented from taking part in democracy due to a refusal to help the postal service?
Still waiting on you to agree to the ban from PP for the election, too!
Oh wait, you won't reply to me. You're still an oppressed white male on a message board.
He admitted in a press briefing he was doing this. I posted links and Pitt provided even more.
This. Is. Fascism.
Quote:
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Oh boy, like Eve said, "Manufactured liberal hysteria."
The Post Office isn't closing! It will still deliver the mail and packages and meds.
But trying to push your "mail in voting" agenda on an already beleaguered system will do more to hurt those deliveries than simply getting off your butt and going to the polls!
The American People need that money! Your agenda can go suck eggs!
USPS spokesman Steve Doherty told Boston.com boxes that are rusted, in need of paint, or tagged with graffiti are brought into the service’s shop for repair, and new ones are installed to replace them.
“These trucks are on the street daily,” Doherty said in an e-mailed statement Friday evening. “They’re part of our field maintenance fleet.”
Where does that say they did it because Trump told them to?
It's supposed to be hard! If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great!
According to this 2019 report from the GAO, USPS is unsustainable. The last paragraph says it all....they are 42.6 billion dollars behind in retiree health and pension benefits...and that's as of 2018. Who knows what it is now. They will continue to owe the folks that will be retiring in the future. Dumping money into the USPS the way it is managed now looks like it would be foolish. They're losing twice as much as they take in, with no indication whatsoever that things are going to improve. https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/us_postal_service_financial_viability/issue_summary
USPS financial viability continues to be high risk because USPS cannot fund its current level of services and financial obligations from its revenues. As stated in GAO’s 2019 High-Risk update, USPS faces financial challenges that include the following:
Poor financial situation: USPS’s overall financial condition is deteriorating and unsustainable. USPS has lost $69 billion over the past 11 fiscal years—including $3.9 billion in fiscal year 2018. USPS’s total unfunded liabilities and debt ($143 billion at the end of fiscal year 2018) have grown to double its annual revenue. Insufficient cost savings: The savings from USPS cost-reduction efforts have dwindled in recent years. Although USPS has stated that it will aggressively reduce costs within its control, its plans will not achieve the kind of savings necessary to significantly reduce current operating costs. Unfavorable trends: USPS’s expenses are now growing faster than its revenues—partly due to rising compensation and benefits costs and continuing declines in the volume of First-Class Mail. USPS Unfunded Liabilities and Debt as a Percentage of USPS Revenue, Fiscal Years 2007 through 2018
Further, USPS has missed $48.2 billion in required payments for postal retiree health and pension benefits as of September 30, 2018. This includes $42.6 billion in missed payments for retiree health benefits since fiscal year 2010, and $5.6 billion in missed payments for pension benefits since fiscal year 2014. If USPS does not make any more payments for retiree health benefits, the fund supporting these benefits is projected by the Office of Personnel Management to be depleted in fiscal year 2030. If the fund is depleted, USPS would be required by law to make the payments necessary to cover its share of health benefits premiums for postal retirees. However, current law does not address what would happen if USPS misses those payments. Depletion of the fund, together with USPS’s potential inability to make remaining contributions, could affect postal retirees as well as USPS, customers, and other stakeholders, including the federal government.
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How do most people get their mail? Certainly NOT in the blue boxes. Most everyone has a mail box of some sort.
How do people send mail currently? I have 2 options. Put it in my mailbox, and the usps person picks it up. Or, I can go to the post office and drop it off. None of that is changing.
Our town used to have about 10 of the blue post office boxes. Why? I don't know, and I guess the p.o. didn't know either because some 20 years ago, they removed all but 2 of them, which sit in the alley behind the post office. I mean, if you are dropping something off at the blue box p.o. thing, you are literally 100 feet or so from the door of the post office.
Every home/condo/apartment/business has a way of sending mail. They also have a way of receiving mail.
...If you were trying to fix an election done by mail-in voting, wouldn't those big unmonitored boxes be the most likely place to do it?
If a home's mailbox had 50 absentee ballots stuffed in it, the postal worker would probably be suspicious. Same for at the post office, why is this one person dropping all these ballots off together?
It would seem to be a lot more plausible for a bunch of (bad) ballots to be dropped in one of those public containers.
...Oh, I see. That's why you're complaining. You want places to stuff a ton of falsified ballots without getting caught.
The boxes being removed as a fascist attempt to fix the election argument just seems a little weak. Focusing on the boxes seems a bit of a red herring.
You mess with the "Bull," you get the horns. Fiercely Independent.
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