Corrupt Trumpist villain Postmaster General Louis "Delay" DeJoy tried his best to foul up the mail system that people rely on for everything from medications to Social Security checks. They were his collateral damage, since the sinister intent of DeJoy, a Trump fundraiser and accused "straw donor" felon, was to cripple the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle absentee ballots for the November elections. Sane people (Dems and others supporting Joe Biden) are expected to vote by mail in overwhelming numbers, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Federal and state judges have slapped DeJoy with injunctions, stopping his plans and ordering him to return operations to the way it was before he started meddling for Team Trump. Now, the USPS has disseminated an internal directive to implement a point-by-point reversal of all of DeJoy's actions:
"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 didn’t 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."
This doesn't mean that DeJoy's malicious meddling failed completely. It's reported that DeJoy responded Wednesday to Federal Judge Stanley Bastian in Washington state that issued the injunction that many mail sorting machines have already been stripped for parts, and can't be used:
"DeJoy and the Postal Service said Wednesday in a filing to be considered by the judge that the injunction should be amended to acknowledge the machines cannot be put back together.
The postmaster general stated that the old machines were stripped for parts to improve or repair other sorting machines.
'It is therefore not possible to return such machines to service,' the filing read." (our emphasis)
Impeding the processing and delivery of the U.S. mail is a felony, and it's clear from Judge Bastian's earlier injunction that the court believed DeJoy was doing just that for his Dear Leader's political advantage. So, add DeJoy to the list of criminals to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law once we have a new President in place.
(photo montage: Wikimedia Commons and Gage Skidmore)
