Michigan Postal Service Workers Say “The Fix Is In”

Mother Jones reports:

While President Donald Trump forthrightly acknowledged only yesterday that weakening the Post Office will help him obstruct mail balloting this fall, postal workers in the key swing state of Michigan say his mission has been clear for weeks. Recent funding cuts, overtime reductions, and other changes imposed by Louis DeJoy have left postal workers warning about new multi-day delays—and that a deliberate effort to slow down the mail and interfere with the election is underway.

“I think it’s absolutely true,” said Steve Wood, a mail clerk who works at the Michigan Metroplex, a massive mail sorting center near Detroit. He says he was convinced in recent weeks as he and his colleagues saw the removal of almost a quarter of the facility’s mail sorting machines, a lack of substitute employees to replace workers missing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a general lack of urgency to locate and send along ballots that have piled up in bins.

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Important piece on what’s happening with the USPS…..And to anyone within the USPS, please send tips.https://t.co/F6u83qyWVR

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 14, 2020