The recent structural and operational changes to USPS have raised alarms among lawmakers and members of the public alike, given the high volume of voters expected to participate in November’s election using mail-in ballots.
During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, American Postal Workers Union (APWU) President Mark Dimondstein discussed ways in which Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s new protocols are contributing to significant slowdowns.
“What we’re hearing from the workers throughout the country is that the policies that the new Postmaster General has implemented—cutting back the hours that employees are working, changing transportation and cutting back transportation of mail, strict guidelines where somebody can’t wait 10 minutes to get all the mail on a truck to get delivered that day, even though it should be delivered that day—that all these policies are slowing down the mail,” Dimondstein said