Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities

Source: Yahoo News | August 13, 2020 | Summer Meza

It’s not just business as usual at the United States Postal Service.

While President Trump is publicly saying he plans to block funding for the USPS so that Democrats can’t achieve their goal of expanding mail-in voting across all states ahead of the November election, the Postal Service is also facing some internal changes.

Vice News’ Motherboard reported Thursday that USPS is quietly removing mail sorting machines — the very machines that are responsible for sorting ballots. There’s no official explanation for the changes, and it’s unclear why the machines would be removed rather than simply not used when not needed. The removals and planned removals are reportedly affecting several processing facilities across the U.S.

“It’ll force the mail to be worked by human hands in sorting. Guarantees to STOP productivity,” a Post Office source told The Washington Post‘s Jacqueline Alemany. “On top of cutting the overtime needed to run the machines, can you imagine the [overtime] needed to do this [the] old hard way?”

Postal workers say equipment is often moved around or replaced, but not usually at such a rate, and not in such a way that would affect workers’ ability to quickly process large quantities of mail. Local union officials have no idea what’s going on. “I’m not sure you’re going to find an answer for why,” one union president told Vice, “because we haven’t figured that out either.”

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