{"id":176154,"date":"2020-08-22T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/22\/your-post-office-fery-update\/"},"modified":"2020-08-22T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T23:51:00","slug":"your-post-office-fery-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/22\/your-post-office-fery-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Post Office F%$#ery Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
In Washington State, postal workers are ignoring their orders and putting the sorting machines back on line<\/a>.<\/div>\n

This is not a surprise.  Postmaster Louis DeJoy has been lying about a lot, and he has continued to sabotage it while promising that he is not doing so:<\/p>\n

Postal workers in Washington State have reinstalled high-speed mail sorting machines\u2014dismantled after controversial orders from the U.S. Postal Service\u2014 despite USPS orders not to put machines back in use.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Only two facilities<\/a>, Seattle-Tacoma and one in Dallas, seem to be ignoring the Postal Service\u2019s directive to leave decommissioned sorting machines out of use.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m kind of surprised that we haven’t seen more insubordination from the Post Office rank and file.<\/p>\n

In related news, it turns out that DeJoy lied about the extant of the slow-downs that he has created in mail delivery<\/a>: <\/p>\n

You\u2019re not just imagining it: The mail really is experiencing widespread delays, according to new internal United States Postal Service documents<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The documents were published by Rep. Carolyn Maloney ahead of a Monday hearing with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Motherboard previously reported<\/a> that a mix of the coronavirus pandemic, more restrictive overtime policies, and a restriction on the amount of time that mail can be sorted and loaded onto mail trucks before they go out has led to delays in mail delivery. Maloney said that “these new documents show that the delays are far worse than we were told\u201d by DeJoy.<\/p>\n

The new documents, a Postmaster General \u201cService Performance Measurement\u201d briefing prepared for DeJoy on August 12, seemingly show the actual impact of those policies. Across the board, \u201con-time\u201d scores have fallen sharply since early July. Presorted first-class mail is getting delivered late 8.1 percent more often than baseline, marketing mail (8.42 percent), periodicals (9.57 percent), and even Priority Mail (7.97 percent) have seen similar drops. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lies from Trump and his  Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup>?  Hoocoodanode?
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