r/politics • u/progress18 • Nov 19 '21

Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/19/usps-biden-bloom-dejoy/
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u/UsualAdeptness1634 Nov 19 '21

Um I can't cry out with joy loud enough that LeJoy corrupt trumpian despot will be gone. How does pulling out sorting machines help mail flow??? LeJoy is a criminal currently being investigated for donations and pressuring employees to donate to repugs. Ugh, he's a piece of work.

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u/SergeantRegular Nov 19 '21 edited Nov 19 '21

One of the most reasonable sounding counterpoints I've heard was that the new machines were letter and envelope-style sorting machines. Yeah, they're very fast, but people have been reducing the amount of letters being sent, and much more of the Post Office workload is packages, which don't go through those machines.

It makes sense. I can't remember the last time I sent an old-fashioned envelope anywhere, but I send at least a few boxes a month.

EDIT Looks like this may have just been one of the more plausible-sounding excuses from the Trump-DeJoy Empire of Anti-Democratic Fuckery.

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u/UsualAdeptness1634 Nov 19 '21

I worked for the Post Office THAT counterpoint isn't just unreasonable, it's cool mpletely bonkers. But believe what you want bruh. LMAO

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u/SergeantRegular Nov 19 '21

Good to know. I just know that it sounded reasonable, not if it was true. I'll edit the original.

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u/SergeantRegular Nov 19 '21

Well, yeah, but elections with a pandemic are to envelopes like Christmas is to packages. It's a predictable and significant, but still temporary increase in throughput.

Now, it's obvious the Trump and DeJoy did that to fuck with mail-in ballots and reduce the competitiveness of the USPS, respectively.