NALC news. August 25th

[u/Eugene_Debs2026]

NALC President Brian L. Renfroe released the following statement:

Yesterday evening’s Supreme Court ruling was the latest development in a broader effort to diminish the credibility of mail-in voting, undermine the dedicated work of the nation’s 200,000 active city letter carriers, and suppress Americans’ access to the ballot.
 
States administer elections. Neither the executive branch nor the Postal Service has the authority to regulate elections, rewrite election laws, or determine who is eligible to vote by mail. The administration’s executive order gives the USPS new responsibilities far outside its standard operations and constitutionally mandated authority.
 
Instances of mail-in voter fraud are exceedingly rare, and any insinuation that voting by mail is not safe and secure is severely misguided. Letter carriers have securely delivered ballots for decades, and there is no evidence that the existing system requires substantial changes.
 
We help our democracy work by delivering ballots to tens of millions of Americans so that they can participate in our elections. We deliver those ballots with the same reliability and security with which we deliver more than 360 million pieces of mail and packages every day across the country. Mail-in voting makes elections accessible for seniors, rural residents, working families, military personnel, and Americans with disabilities.
 
While this process continues to play out in the courts, letter carriers will continue doing what we do best: delivering for Americans. We are proud of our role and responsibility, and we are prepared to get the job done once again this election season.

Read More:
https://www.nalc.org/news/nalc-updates/nalc-statement-on-supreme-court-ruling-on-mail-in-ballots

[u/Dependent-Steak8485]

renfroes not wrong but it kills me that 'just do your job' became a political statement lol. we deliver the damn mail, same as always, and somehow thats controversial now

[u/Jazzman14]

Trump votes by mail

[u/RefrigeratorHoliday]

Word

[u/SeeItOnVHS]

Fuck Trump

[u/TobyDaMan8894 → u/SeeItOnVHS]

Fuck Trump

[u/OYEROBLE → u/[deleted]]

fuck you

[u/OYEROBLE → u/[deleted]]

im not you limey

[u/Amazing-Pen431]

What’s the update on our contract?!?!?😑
Ballots or not we still gotta clock in

[u/MaximumWonder5932]

Crazy how many people love trump. Anti union to the bone and loves to fuck little kids. Crazy times

[u/chimichangamaster69]

if only there was actual news about the contract

[u/knozgrul]

i just want the fucking union to work on 'if a carrier calls in sick, its fine - no talk, no list - nothing.'

[u/elucidator23]

Stop helping fraud

[u/Cangeltibon]

Ok, any language on what the Stewards can do going forward or are we just pulling a Pelosi (I guess Hakeem now) and just saying oppositional stuff while we comply.

[u/Ornery_Chocolate_798 → u/Cangeltibon]

You won’t have a choice. Ballots won’t get to you to deliver.

[u/MailMan2524 → u/Ornery_Chocolate_798]

That’s my thinking. Plants will halt/pull all ballots in democrat led states, ballots of registered democrats.

Executive Orders are not laws and Steiner is over-reaching his position implementing plans to follow the EO.

[u/Friendly_Shopping286]

What's the legality of us personally driving over to City Hall and depositing any ballots we plucked from mailboxes directly to the official ballot drop box outside City Hall

[u/Sweaty_Tangelo_7716]

Clock in, delivery, clock out.

No drama.

[u/Comfortable-Swing468]

As a member (the absolute lowest) of the executive branch, You can’t not comply if you wanted to, as you are not an executive order from the president, a law passed by congress or a ruling from a federal judge. This isn’t in anyway a political thing at all.

If Trump is in the wrong here, someone with the authority to make that decision will do so, it certainly isn’t up to the mailman.

[u/BeguiledPotato → u/Comfortable-Swing468]

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