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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Ready to Deliver:' Read the Post Office's Mandatory Pep Talk About Election Mail
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Tweet text: Some good news: USPS will be telling its employees tomorrow to undo nearly all of DeJoy's most controversial policies that slowed down mail and de-prioritized election mail.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ayzap/usps-election-mail-leaked-speech-undo-changes
The United States Postal Service will be telling all of its employees that it is undoing virtually all of the policies Postmaster General Louis DeJoy initiated more than two months ago that delayed mail across the country, according to a memo obtained by Motherboard.
The memo, titled "Ready to deliver Election Mail for the nation," comes after the USPS's hand was forced. As the memo itself acknowledges, two separate federal judges issued injunctions requiring the USPS to roll back these policies, including limiting overtime and mandating rigid adherence to truck schedules even if mail was not on them. In the wake of those rulings, some mail sorting machines that had been deactivated but not disassembled were being reactivated across the country. A USPS spokesman didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to the new instructions, overtime is "authorized and instructed to be used as necessary," managers are "authorized to use their best business judgment to meet service commitments" and hold trucks so mail is on time, retail hours are not to be changed except in emergencies, collection boxes aren't to be removed except for extraordinary events like extreme weather "or civil unrest," and election mail is to be processed as first-class mail even without first-class postage.
In some instances, the memo is a precise reversal of the July 10 memo that instituted the policies to begin with and kicked off months of extraordinary Congressional and public scrutiny regarding the postal service. Whereas the July memo stated "One aspect of these changes that may be difficult for employees is thattemporarilywe may see mail left behind or mail on on the workroom floor or docks" whereas today's memo states "Focusing on the transportation schedule does not mean that mail should be left behind it should not.
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'Ready to Deliver:' Read the Post Office's Mandatory Pep Talk About Election Mail (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
OP
I'll bet DeJoy is kicking himself for ever getting involved with Trump. Headache phenomenal!
Frustratedlady
Sep 2020
#2
Ditto. He needs to tell Congress where he got this idea to dismantle sorting machines,
SWBTATTReg
Sep 2020
#5
"Deliver every piece every day". That was the mantra when I worked there.
Midnight Writer
Sep 2020
#3
MagickMuffin
(15,930 posts)1. That is definitely GOOD news
DeJoyless needs to pay back the USPS for anything he did to prevent the flow of mail. And then straight to jail.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)2. I'll bet DeJoy is kicking himself for ever getting involved with Trump. Headache phenomenal!
I wonder if his wife ever started her job as ambassador. Was it to Canada?
Sure wasn't worth the thousand$ of dollars they contributed.
tblue37
(65,218 posts)4. I hope he faces huge fines and a significant prison term. nt
SWBTATTReg
(22,065 posts)5. Ditto. He needs to tell Congress where he got this idea to dismantle sorting machines,
implement new process(es) in the USPS, all to slow down the delivery of mail. He needs to provide proof, written as to why he did what he did. He won't be able to provide a damn thing, because he and trump actually were trying to throw the election results up into the air and confuse things. That's it. Interfering w/ the US Mail and the elections. Surely there are enough federal statutes and state/local statutes too, regarding the tampering of the Mail?
Midnight Writer
(21,712 posts)3. "Deliver every piece every day". That was the mantra when I worked there.