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A few facts being left out of the media's @USPS fear campaign.
1) Trump didn't appoint Postmaster Dejoy; he was elected by the USPS's bipartisan governors.
1) Trump didn't appoint Postmaster Dejoy; he was elected by the USPS's bipartisan governors.
2) The USPS guidance about requesting mail-in ballots at least 1 week prior to the election — which the conspiracy theorists have used to claim election sabotage — predates DeJoy's arrival, and is an even smaller suggested cut-off than states like New York recommend.
3) The number of addresses in the U.S. has been steadily rising as mail volume has steadily dropped, meaning the USPS' outdated model becomes less efficient every year.
4) Despite its money-losing business model, the USPS has more than enough funds to last through 2020, and DeJoy says its excess processing capacity is more than sufficient for handling November's mail-in voting (a point echoed by postal unions).
5) The USPS workforce is represented by 7 separate unions. Common sense measures at improving efficiency/cost savings are effectively impossible despite virtually everyone agreeing on their importance.
6) Those unions have over many decades made slowing down the mail part of their negotiating strategy with Congress. Any current slowdowns are almost certainly a strong-arming tactic, as there's no available evidence they result from insufficient capacity.
7) Dems say w/o additional USPS bailouts, the VA won't be able to ship veterans their meds and "people will die." Actually since the USPS started slowing down the mail, the VA has switched to UPS and reports 95% of those deliveries arrived on time.
8) Trump hasn't defunded the USPS or instructed the agency to slow down the mail. Congress gave the USPS a $10 billion loan earlier this year and Trump says he's only ever encouraged the USPS to deliver mail faster, not slower.
9) The USPS has been taking sorting machines offline for years as mail volume is down more than 33 percent since its 2006 peak. This cost-savings strategy was underway before DeJoy's arrival.
10) The USPS decreasing/reallocating its dropboxes likewise predates Trump. WSJ: In August 2016, the USPS’s Inspector General said that “the number of collection boxes declined by more than 12,000 in the past 5 years.”
In short: THERE IS NO USPS “CRISIS." Only postal unions willing to take advantage of a complicit media to blackmail, pun intended, American taxpayers.
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