Maine postal workers reassemble high-speed sorting machine

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Maine postal workers reassemble high-speed sorting machine

October 11, 2020

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — U.S. Postal Service workers have reassembled one of the two high-speed letter sorting machines that were ordered dismantled over the summer in Maine.

WMTW-TV reports the machine that can sort more than 20,000 letters an hour went back into operation on Thursday.

The American Postal Workers Union pushed management to restore the machine to help deliver election-related mail promptly.

It was one of two machines that were mothballed at the Southern Maine Mail Processing Center in Scarborough. The other was discarded for scrap metal.

https://apnews.com/article/maine-archive-voting-2020-73734f7c725609742316313361da6f3f

[Sherman A1]

1. Excellent!

[soothsayer]

2. That's great

[Raster]

3. Fuck Louis DeJoy!

tRump* and DeJoy* were willing to DESTROY the United States Postal Service simply to inhibit the counting of mail-in ballots. They were willing to DESTROY the USPS!!!

[SheltieLover]

4. And to force privatization!

[mitch96]

7. That was always the back story with the USPS. Bankrupt it and then go private to make a killing.

Another UPS/FED EX...
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[SheltieLover]

8. Yup!

[Hotler]

10. And steal their pension funds. nt

[mitch96]

11. Classic corporate raider tactic. buy the company for a song and sell off it's parts and keep the

pension. A law was passed that the USPS had to keep it's pension FULLY FUNDED unlike other corporations or gov't entity's.. That is a very ripe fruit for the purchaser... It's like they set it up to fail and command big rewards to the purchaser..
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[magicarpet]

6. Mission #1 for Team trDumpie,...

Destroy any last remaining vestiges of a thriving and functional DEMOCRACY.

The age of Fascistic hyper Capitalism with Nazi Faux Christian under tones has arrived.

Toss out the law books,.. welcome our new Nazi Hyper Religious Order,.. with great emphasis on the older orthodoxy of the,... Old Testaments.

Brimstone and fire if you step out of line of established formations.

Amen

[SheltieLover]

5. Good for them! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

5 high-speed sorters were removed from Memphis, a very blue spot in this crappy red state.

I wish workers would reassemble. Zero mail for over one week here - whole neighborhood. (I've been watching postman...)

[Ligyron]

9. The supervisors ordered to have machine dis or not reassembled should do what Trump does.

Ignore the order. Let Dejoy come do it himself or try and stop it.

[mitch96]

12. +1

[calimary]

17. Totally! After all, isn't that how things are done now?

Just ignore the rules? And the laws? Well let’s take a page from that and do it on our side, too!

[tavernier]

13. Susan Collins is concerned.

People will now be able to vote.

[Pantagruel]

14. That's the "real Antifa"

at work.

[iluvtennis]

15. Awesome! nt

[ToxMarz]

16. When the Democrats take back power they need to hold DeJoy and anyone else personally liable

for destruction of government property and vandalism. Jail time and FULL RESTITUTION for the damage they did.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. and dejoy said it couldnt be done . my eye.!

[Blue Owl]

19. Suck it DeJoy you piece of shit