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Maybe they removed sorting machines because they don't help with parcels, which are an increasingly large majority of USPS's work.
by jonfw 5y ago
Maybe they removed sorting machines because they don't help with parcels, which are an increasingly large majority of USPS's work.
- hedora 5y agoNo. It was definitely an act of deliberate sabotage. It’s well-documented.
- jonfw 5y agoThe USPS is seeing fewer letters and more parcels. Letter sorting machines are not helpful to deliver parcels. Therefore, the USPS should replace some percentage of letter sorting machines with infrastructure suitable for sorting parcels.
- makomk 5y agoThe American media certainly spun it as an act of deliberate sabotage, but that has nothing to do with whether it actually was - they spun almost everything done by the Trump administration as one regardless of the actual evidence (plus a few things which had nothing to do with Trump, his administration, or even in some cases the federal government at all, if they could convince people otherwise). In this case, it would 100% have been a non-story if it happened under any other president - the USPS were just reducing their letter sorting capacity because they've seen a massive, long-running reduction in letter volume, and I believe they'd been doing this under the previous administration too. Hell, if it wasn't in aid of the side the mainstream press supported, there'd probably be endless headlines about how these claims were endangering democracy by undermining trust in the election. (Especially the really ludicrous claims, like taking a pile of postboxes outside a company with a long-running contract to refurbish them and claiming it was part of an attempt to sabotage the election by stopping people voting by post...) Remember all the headlines after Trump lost?