Politics The Postal Service, Voting, and Covid

[barfo]

Are you going to Los Angeles?
Parsley, basil, and Jackson Browne
Remember me to one who lives there
He once wanted to burn it down

barfo

 

[riverman]

NOT INTO THE WACKY TABACCY NO MORE.

I figure after you quit, you started buying weapons....after weapons you'll discover meth! Getting stoned is no fun when you are carrying a machete around I'd imagine

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Lanny]

East fix.

Just call it Vote by Male.

Trump will love it.

Do you think he's that stupid? On second thought, you might be right.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Do you think he's that stupid? On second thought, you might be right.

Stupid enough to think people wont catch on to how he thinks schools will be safe , but voting wont?

I mean, That is the last stupid straw for me.

This guy is insane.

 

[Lanny]

Stupid enough to think people wont catch on to how he thinks schools will be safe , but voting wont?

I mean, That is the last stupid straw for me.

This guy is insane.

I reached that conclusion before he was nominated.

 

[THE HCP]

I tried looking for a thread on this and didn’t find one. Correct me if I’m wrong. Can somebody give me the CLIFFS NOTES version of what is going on here? I’m totally confused on what is happening.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

USPS sucks. That's the cliff notes.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

"Your package will arrive later than expected, but is still on its way. It is currently in transit to the next facility."

Been having that update last updated on Aug 7th on something sent via Priority mail on Aug 3rd.

Summary: postman stole my duffle bag.

 

[MickZagger]

Trump put a guy in place to be the postmaster general that is a huge donor toward Trumps campaign. He has a little familiarity with logistics because he previously owned a logistics company.

Right after dude was hired, he fired 13 top postal officials. Which is shady as fuck.

they’ve taken away OT for the workers and the latest news I’ve heard is they’re disabling the sorting machines.

The new guy is trying to create a backlog in their system to show that they can’t handle the volume of vote by mail which is flat out untrue.

It’s just communism in America basically. This dude needs to go in November.

 

[ABM]

I'm wondering why monies earmarked for the implementation/expansion of mail-in voting capabilities belongs in a coronavirus stimulus bill?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Source Facebook: Mailboxes today being removed from NE Portland.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm wondering why monies earmarked for the implementation/expansion of mail-in voting capabilities belongs in a coronavirus stimulus bill?

Because there is an increased demand for mail in ballots due to the coronavirus.

 

[riverman]

Trump put a guy in place to be the postmaster general that is a huge donor toward Trumps campaign. He has a little familiarity with logistics because he previously owned a logistics company.

Right after dude was hired, he fired 13 top postal officials. Which is shady as fuck.

they’ve taken away OT for the workers and the latest news I’ve heard is they’re disabling the sorting machines.

The new guy is trying to create a backlog in their system to show that they can’t handle the volume of vote by mail which is flat out untrue.

It’s just communism in America basically. This dude needs to go in November.

This....this hurts people in rural communities alot...defunding the Postal Service is purely political to upset mail in voting....yet the asshole wants more wall money...he doesn't give a shit about the working class in america...not one shit. Our maillady has driven our route for over 22 years and she's worried as hell for her job ..one of my neighbors retired from the local post office....Trump can pound sand..the guy is a cancer on the planet..he has no fucking plan and his fake presidency is about to end...I hope he ends his life on Riker's Island in an orange jumpsuit

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Bump for @THE HCP.

 

[julius]

Because there is an increased demand for mail in ballots due to the coronavirus.

Oh, but once Kamala said something about Joe so, let's ignore this and talk about that instead!

 

[crandc]

Why, after writing a reply, did I get a message I do not have permission to view this thread?

 

[MickZagger]

I'm wondering why monies earmarked for the implementation/expansion of mail-in voting capabilities belongs in a coronavirus stimulus bill?

I’m wondering why a ton of the stuff that’s in coronavirus bill is in there? Like a brand new FBI building. Scrap the J. Edgar Hoover building. It’s going to be something associated with Trumps name

 

[e_blazer]

Why, after writing a reply, did I get a message I do not have permission to view this thread?

You’ve been merged.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Why, after writing a reply, did I get a message I do not have permission to view this thread?

I merged it with another related thread.

 

[MickZagger]

The new postmaster that was put in charge also has a tremendous amount of stock in USPS competitors. Like UPS.

 

[ABM]

Source Facebook: Mailboxes today being removed from NE Portland.

Mail-in voting...

 

[julius]

Mail-in voting...

Tho I know you're posting that in an attempt to be funny, do you have any links that show that mail in voting is actualy fraught with fraud?

 

[ABM]

Tho I know you're posting that in an attempt to be funny, do you have any links that show that mail in voting is actualy fraught with fraud?

No, but I'd sure appreciated it if the dems don't throw monies into the stimulus package that truly don't belong there.

 

[wizenheimer]

Don't listen to El Pres. He wears a T-Shirt that says:

After
Careful Analysis
I realize
That Everybody Else
is a
Fucking Stupid Asshole

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the USPS is a major victim of deliberate republican mismanagement and sabotage

the Service wasn't exactly running like clockwork and did have some issues; but they were muddling thru them like they had been for decades

then, in 2006, the R's, hoping to pave the way for privatization of the Service, passed a rather ridiculous law requiring the Postal Service to 'pre-fund' in excess of 50 years of projected retiree health costs. No other pension plan in America, private or public, had anywhere close to that level of pre-funding requirement. This burden, added to some other financial issues facing the service have strapped the service and moved it to the edge of failure

compounding the problem is that rates have to be approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, a 5 member board appointed by the president. Right now, it's majority R's, and like all things in the trump era are highly political. And that 2006 act set the pre-funding requirement, also added layers of regulations (remember when R's were anti-regulation) that basically gave the commission all kinds of ways to monkey-wrench any commons sense moves by the postal service to solve financial problems:

* "The proposed rule filed Thursday stems from a provision in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, the last major postal bill Congress approved, that requires the PRC to review whether the Postal Service’s rate-setting model meets nine statutory objectives and 14 statutory factors.


During that review, the PRC found that the current USPS rate-setting system “did not meet the objectives relating to the financial health” of the Postal Service." *

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agen...-path-for-postal-service-to-set-higher-rates/

LOL...25 statutory "objectives and factors"....yeah, that really streamlines the process

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then along comes the pandemic, and along comes the most corrupt and venal president in out history, who is making no effort to hide the fact he's going to weaponize Covid and hamstring the Postal Service as much as he can to try and shut down voting in November. And the gawdamm fucking R's are just fine with that because they really don't believe in democracy at all. They only believe in power, and they will fuck over everybody they can in order to keep their grip on power. I have no doubt at all they will do everything they can to shut down or gut the Postal Service by November.

the D's aren't blameless in this. Several D congressmen wanted Congress and Obama to address this issue in 2008 when they controlled both congress and the presidency. But they apparently had bigger fish to fry and couldn't look ahead to the wave of vote-by- mail that was obviously coming

anyway, trump and the R's are deathly afraid of vote-by-mail because they know with a certainly that the more people who vote, the more the D's will win.

 

[julius]

No, but I'd sure appreciated it if the dems don't throw monies into the stimulus package that truly don't belong there.

Well, they're not the only ones, but it makes sense to do it since we're in the middle of a corona virus issue and it's needed to boost up the post office.

 

[Chris Craig]

My vote won't matter either way since I'm in California.

Whatever happens, happens. Fuck it.

But, but Trump could win the popular vote

 

[Chris Craig]

I'm wondering why monies earmarked for the implementation/expansion of mail-in voting capabilities belongs in a coronavirus stimulus bill?

People can't vote in person because of coronavirus. We therefore need mail in voting to remain safe. So, as part of the coronavirus bill, the USPS will be given aid to ensure a fair election can happen.

 

[Chris Craig]

No, but I'd sure appreciated it if the dems don't throw monies into the stimulus package that truly don't belong there.

I'd sure appreciate Trump not trying to fix the election by having his goon control the USPS so ballots can't be delivered on time.

 

[ABM]

Well, they're not the only ones, but it makes sense to do it since we're in the middle of a corona virus issue and it's needed to boost up the post office.

Uh huh.