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> My stepdad works at one of the largest USPS sorting facilities. > When he came in to work today 2 multi million dollar sorting machines were padlocked. He s
by ardy42 6y ago
> My stepdad works at one of the largest USPS sorting facilities.
> When he came in to work today 2 multi million dollar sorting machines were padlocked.
He should take a photo and pass it on to the media.
> He was told by the facility manager that they are selling them for scrap.
If anyone manages to buy them, the smart thing would be to hold onto them to sell them back to the Biden administration.
- zaroth 6y agoThey’re being shutdown because letter volume is falling off a cliff and those machines don’t sort packages.
- dawnerd 6y agoWhy do it now though? Why not wait after the election in case you need the machines to handle the ballot load? Why is it suddenly the utmost importance to remove these machines and sell them for essentially pennies on the dollar. Why are they rushing to remove mailboxes around communities? Anyone that thinks letter volume isn't in just a temp slump is lying to themselves to justify what's going on.
- areoform 6y agoNo, but they do sort millions of ballots.
- zaroth 6y agoI’m not sure about that. Does a letter being delivered within the same zip code even touch these machines? I would guess that the vast majority of mailed ballots would be for local delivery and sorted by the mail carrier at the point they are picked up, and never hit one of these regional distribution centers. And ballots on the way out would be pre-sorted.
- stouset 6y agoAnd if the post office is overwhelmed with work due to decommissioned sorting machines?
- zaroth 6y agoI think you've got it backwards. The point is the letter sorting machines aren't running because there aren't enough letters.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Does a letter being delivered within the same zip code even touch these machines? Completed ballots are only occasionally mailed in the same zip code, and often not the same city, as they tend to be mailed in to county election offices, not the precinct balloting locations (which often aren't permanent government facilities and when they are still are not permanently associated with the elections office.) So, yes, machines that sort non-local (not same zip) mail would handle most mail in ballots. And the postal service has been notifying state officials that (despite it never being a problem before) it's “delivery standards” do not support delivery ballots on the timelines in each notified states law for mail ballotsm And the President has openly stated that he is opposing Postal Service funding to block use of mail-in ballots. It's not even something that is trying to be hidden.
- zaroth 6y ago"Motherboard identified 19 mail sorting machines from five processing facilities across the U.S. that either have already been removed or are scheduled to be in the near future." I think it's reasonable to question how many ballots being sent to local county offices would cross paths with one of these five regional processing facilities. Even the Motherboard article acknowledges this; "Paul McKenna, president of Milwaukee Area Local 3 of the American Postal Workers Union, said that some of the DBCSs staying will have about 50 more stackers added to them, meaning the machines can sort mail to a larger number of destinations. This will help alleviate the pressure during high mail volume periods like the Christmas rush—when there is simply more mail in general to all places—as well as provide advantages during lower-volume periods like the dead of summer. But it won’t necessarily help the unique challenge of election mail. In that case, the mail surge stays local."
- learc83 6y agoNot at his facility. Those machines run constantly. The regulars have to skip preventative maintenance, so they can keep running them to keep up with volume.