Please Mr. Postman

The sustained attack on the U.S. Postal Service by COVID Donnie and his flunky Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is intended to 1) suppress voting and 2) enable COVID Donnie to question the election's legitimacy if millions of mailed ballots are not counted quickly after November 3.  But, because this is a regime that follows the chaotic lead of moron vector COVID Donnie, there are serious unintended consequences for them that are beginning to appear well ahead of the election.

From Stars and Stripes, the impact on veterans:

Lawmakers urged Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Friday to reverse disruptive changes at the U.S. Postal Service, voicing grave concerns about veterans whose mail-order medications are delayed. [snip]

USPS union officials warned that the changes have led to many mail delays, raising concerns about the viability of mail-in voting. But changes also sparked concern among veterans and lawmakers about delays for mail-order prescriptions.  

 “We have received many troubling reports from veterans waiting weeks for their prescriptions to arrive,” a group of 31 Senate Democrats wrote to DeJoy.  

The Department of Veterans Affairs fills 80 percent of its prescriptions by mail — about 120 million prescriptions per year going to 330,000 veterans.

The delays are also impacting small businesses and people who've come to expect reliable mail delivery to make or receive payments, or get their medications.  One of countless examples across the country:

In the Washington region, the problems besetting the U.S. Postal Service nationwide sometimes look like a missing check that is badly needed to pay the rent, a bottle of medication delivered days after the last prescription ran out or a mailbox that sits empty day after day.

For residents in one Baltimore County community, it looks like people gathered outside a post office after too many delays and unanswered calls about missing mail. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said one woman broke into tears when she saw he had arrived to get answers for the dozens of constituents who had called his office. They had said they were worried about pills that hadn’t been delivered or money that had gone missing.

Messing with the mail will end up being yet another self- own by this rotten, incompetent regime.  Mail delivery is something tangible that people rely on and are impacted by if it's managed poorly.  This, along with the epic bungling of the coronavirus response is going to be a top campaign issue going forward and media chew toy.  Malicious incompetence is the Trump trademark.

Meanwhile, Adm. William H. McRaven (USN- Ret.) writes in the Washington Post:

As Trump seeks to undermine the U.S. Postal Service and stop mail-in voting, he is taking away our voice to decide who will lead America. It is not hyperbole to say that the future of the country could depend on those remarkable men and women who brave the elements to bring us our mail and deliver our vote. Let us ensure they have every resource possible to provide the citizens of this country the information they need, the ballots that they request and the Postal Service they deserve.

Be sure to thank your mail carrier, and keep the pressure on your Senators and Representative to end this sabotage now.