Early voting in the special election to replace Rep. Mark Green is underway as Davidson County election official explains purge of 80,000 voters from rolls.
Have you missed everything happening with leadership at the USPS since Trump’s first term?
Things like shutting down sorting centers, removing and destroying brand new mail sorting machines, which caused widely documented mail delivery delays, and loosening service standard measurements under Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General. Who also notably was the first Postmaster General to have no experience at the USPS, being entirely from the private logistics sector. And now David Steiner, who was an executive at Waste Management until 2016, and has been a member of the Board at FedEx since 2009, again with no USPS experience.
The last two Postmasters have been implementing policies that have damaged the ability of the USPS to do their job, and tried to hide that by loosening the definitions of what “on time” means for deliveries so they can hit the now lowered threshold. Making it work just a bit worse little by little to justify privatizing it. The Republican’s favorite thing to do with public systems, privatizing profits.
I don’t disagree that DeJoy’s leadership has been problematic. The 2020 operational changes were concerning and rightly faced scrutiny. But those were high-level policy decisions that affected mail service broadly and were immediately detected and challenged. What you’re suggesting here is completely different: individual carriers across Davidson County fraudulently marking specific election mail as undeliverable. That would be a federal crime requiring coordination among many people, would leave obvious evidence, and doesn’t align with the documented issues under DeJoy’s leadership, which were about capacity reduction and service standards, not fraud. The fact that USPS leadership has made questionable decisions doesn’t mean we should assume fraud in every situation involving the mail. We need actual evidence for that specific claim.
A random letter carrier marking things delivered and stealing them has happened numerous times across the country for decades. A single carrier handles thousands of pieces of mail every day. Not sure why you think a few people simply being lazy and marking stuff undeliverable is particularly unlikely, or doing it on purpose if they have strong personal partisan beliefs and see it’s election related mail. Just because its illegal doesn’t stop people from doing it, look at the current administration and everyone in management positions.
Have you missed everything happening with leadership at the USPS since Trump’s first term?
Things like shutting down sorting centers, removing and destroying brand new mail sorting machines, which caused widely documented mail delivery delays, and loosening service standard measurements under Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General. Who also notably was the first Postmaster General to have no experience at the USPS, being entirely from the private logistics sector. And now David Steiner, who was an executive at Waste Management until 2016, and has been a member of the Board at FedEx since 2009, again with no USPS experience.
The last two Postmasters have been implementing policies that have damaged the ability of the USPS to do their job, and tried to hide that by loosening the definitions of what “on time” means for deliveries so they can hit the now lowered threshold. Making it work just a bit worse little by little to justify privatizing it. The Republican’s favorite thing to do with public systems, privatizing profits.
I don’t disagree that DeJoy’s leadership has been problematic. The 2020 operational changes were concerning and rightly faced scrutiny. But those were high-level policy decisions that affected mail service broadly and were immediately detected and challenged. What you’re suggesting here is completely different: individual carriers across Davidson County fraudulently marking specific election mail as undeliverable. That would be a federal crime requiring coordination among many people, would leave obvious evidence, and doesn’t align with the documented issues under DeJoy’s leadership, which were about capacity reduction and service standards, not fraud. The fact that USPS leadership has made questionable decisions doesn’t mean we should assume fraud in every situation involving the mail. We need actual evidence for that specific claim.
A random letter carrier marking things delivered and stealing them has happened numerous times across the country for decades. A single carrier handles thousands of pieces of mail every day. Not sure why you think a few people simply being lazy and marking stuff undeliverable is particularly unlikely, or doing it on purpose if they have strong personal partisan beliefs and see it’s election related mail. Just because its illegal doesn’t stop people from doing it, look at the current administration and everyone in management positions.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investigations/postal-worker-mail-theft-stolen/3674589/
https://thehill.com/homenews/5066246-postal-workers-stealing-mail-inspector-general-report/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/30/former-usps-worker-stole-sports-memorabilia/78051037007/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14995441/USPS-worker-mary-ann-magdamit-stole-checks-sentenced-california.html
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/usps-worker-who-flaunted-stacks-of-cash-on-social-media-admits-to-stealing-checks-from-mail/
Obviously you are going to believe whatever you are going to believe. I’m not going to spend any more time making my argument. Have a good night.