WATCH: Under proposed rule, USPS won't deliver mail ballots to states that don't provide voter rolls, postmaster general says | PBS News

Postmaster General David Steiner told a Senate committee Wednesday that, if a proposed rule is adopted, the U.S. Postal Service would withhold mail ballots from states that do not hand over to the federal government lists of people who have requested absentee or mail ballots...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-under-proposed-rule-usps-wont-deliver-mail-ballots-to-states-that-dont-provide-voter-rolls-postmaster-general-says

USPS warns public of 'smishing' scam, weird texts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnj0tEpNK1Q

 

Brushing Scam - PSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3oR7s2MbNY

Trump is open to having his strongest supporters spend a lot more on mail - The Washington Post

Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service would mean that rural, pro-Trump areas would have to spend a lot more to send mail...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/16/trump-privatize-postal-service-rural-expensive/

Biden nominates new chair for Postal Service Board which could lead to ouster of : NPR

…Porter McConnell of the Save the Post Office Campaign said: "President Biden has listened to the millions of people across the nation demanding a return to the quiet competence of the post office before Louis DeJoy and his friend Ron Bloom took a wrecking ball to it. Ron Bloom has no place in the USPS's future, and we are glad to see his tenure in the past."…

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1057298058/biden-nominates-new-chair-for-postal-service-board-ousts-dejoys-allies

Mail delays and price hikes are coming to USPS. Here’s why. - Vox

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) was even more forceful in his criticism, saying that DeJoy's plan "guarantees the death spiral of the United States Postal Service."

https://www.vox.com/2021/10/3/22707067/usps-mail-slower-more-expensive-why

USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes - The Washington Post

More than 150,000 ballots were caught in U.S. Postal Service processing facilities and not delivered by Election Day, agency data shows, including more than 12,000 in five of the states that have yet to be called for either President Trump or his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/05/usps-late-ballots-election/

USPS disregards judge’s order to conduct ballot sweep in 12 districts covering 15 states - The Washington Post

A federal judge had ordered mail service and law enforcement agents to comb processing plants for votes as delays continue.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/

Citing Widespread Election-Related Delays, Federal Judge Invokes 'Extraordinary Measures' to Ensure On-Time Delivery, Counting of Ballots | Common Dreams News

...While postal workers have tried to keep up with deliveries, the sheer number of early ballots cast, as well as what critics call politically motivated delays caused by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, have resulted in major issues affecting delivery times...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/30/citing-widespread-election-related-delays-federal-judge-invokes-extraordinary

'Epic Level of Corruption': Postal Service Quietly Awards $5 Million Contract to DeJoy's Former Company | Common Dreams News

The U.S. Postal Service last month quietly awarded a $5 million contract to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's former company XPO Logistics, raising fresh allegations of unethical activity by the Trump megadonor as he continues to come under fire for causing nationwide mail delays that could impact next month's election.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/24/epic-level-corruption-postal-service-quietly-awards-5-million-contract-dejoys-former

North Carolina Republicans ask the Supreme Court to allow the state to count fewer votes.

Republicans in North Carolina teamed up with the Trump campaign Thursday to petition the Supreme Court to weigh in and shorten the period of time after Election Day that mail-in ballots—postmarked by Nov. 3—can still be counted. The North Carolina GOP wants the period to accept ballots to revert to the previous three-day window, which was unanimously extended by the North Carolina State Board of Elections in September by six days due to concerns about postal delays. The argument the GOP is making is pretty straightforward, though the logic is unsurprisingly ridiculous. State GOP leaders argued in their appeal that the extended deadline “will result in disparate treatment by inhibiting the rights of voters who cast their absentee ballots before the Memorandum was issued.”....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/north-carolina-republicans-appeal-supreme-court-mail-in-absentee-ballots.html

Michigan Court Blocks 2-Week Extension For Absentee Ballots | Talking Points Memo

The Michigan Court of Appeals on Friday said that absentee ballots must arrive by Election Day to be counted, blocking a 14-day extension that had been ordered by a lower court....
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michigan-court-blocks-2-week-extension-for-absentee-ballots 

Postal workers are falsifying data to boost on-time delivery statistics, records show - The Washington Post

Across the country, postal workers mark packages still sitting in the post office as ‘delivered’....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/10/15/usps-false-scans-packages/

Post Office Failed to Update 1.8 Million Addresses Ahead of Mail-in Voting | Time

For three weeks in August, as election officials across the country were preparing to send out mail-in ballots to tens of millions of voters, the U.S. Postal Service stopped fully updating a national change of address system that most states use to keep their voter rolls current, according to multiple officials who use the system. A USPS spokesperson acknowledged the failure in response to questions from TIME, and said that at least 1.8 million new changes of address had not been registered in the database.....
https://time.com/5893881/exclusive-as-states-prepared-mail-in-ballots-postal-service-failed-to-update-at-least-1-8-million-addresses/

US judge blocks postal service changes that slowed mail | News | DW | 17.09.2020

A federal judge temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from making operational changes amid concerns over election mail slowdown. He called the changes "a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the USPS."....
https://www.dw.com/en/us-judge-blocks-postal-service-changes-that-slowed-mail/a-54970523

‘Blatantly corrupt’ DeJoy donated $600,000 to Trump and GOP after top USPS job opened: report – Raw Story

During a House hearing Monday examining Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s myriad potential conflicts of interest, researcher Lisa Graves testified that the former North Carolina logistics executive donated more than $600,000 to the GOP and President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in just a two-month period after the top Postal Service job opened up late last year. https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/blatantly-corrupt-dejoy-donated-600000-to-trump-and-gop-after-top-usps-job-opened-report/

Trump’s USPS slowdown has devastated small businesses ‘like somebody turned off a switch’: report – Raw Story

On Monday, USA Today explored how the recent Postal Service slowdown, seen since the takeover of President Donald Trump’s new postmaster general Louis DeJoy, has crippled small businesses that rely on mail delivery for their services. “On-time handling for first-class mail has declined since June, according to an August report from the Postal Service,” reported Aimee Picchi. “A separate August report from Senator Gary Peters of Michigan, a Democrat, found that delayed mail items more than doubled at the Postal Service Michigan Metroplex, a major sorting facility, after DeJoy stepped into his role.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trumps-usps-slowdown-has-devastated-small-businesses-like-somebody-turned-off-a-switch-report/

‘A fiasco is clearly foreseeable’: USPS watchdog probe found 1 million primary ballots likely delivered too late to count – Raw Story

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called the findings “more powerful proof that resources and reform are vital right away to prevent serious election mail delays and voting suppression.” The U.S. Postal Service’s internal watchdog issued in a report this week detailing a number of concerns about how prepared the service is for the upcoming November elections in which a record number of Americans are expected to vote by mail, with one Democratic lawmaker seizing the findings as further evidence of the need for reforms “to prevent serious election mail delays and voting suppression.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/a-fiasco-is-clearly-foreseeable-usps-watchdog-probe-found-1-million-primary-ballots-likely-delivered-too-late-to-count/

Trump's postal chief ousted brother to win control of family firm, court files allege

Last week, as Louis DeJoy testified before the House of Representatives about mail slowdowns around the country, the Republican congressman Jim Jordan praised the embattled postmaster general’s career as the chief executive of New Breed Logistics, saying DeJoy had an “amazing record in business”. But court documents reviewed by the Guardian allege that as DeJoy expanded his father’s shipping company into a logistics empire, he alienated his own family, pushing his brother Dominick out of the company and triggering an acrimonious legal battle with long-lasting consequences. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/02/louis-dejoy-postmaster-general-family-brother-court-documents

The President Versus The Post Office (On Point)

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has maintained under oath that his changes to the U.S. Postal Service have nothing to do with President Trump’s reelection. We talk about why it’s still significant that the president is going after a public institution, and the state of our democracy.
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/08/25/post-office-under-attack