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Why Isn’t The US Postal Service Still A Major Campaign Issue?
If Trump’s re-elected 100% it will be rendered unrecognizable from what you’ve always known. He’s said that.
So we’re not just just talking about delays in ballots getting delivered. But let’s start with that:
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has in fact ordered the postal service to report to him daily on the status of on-time delivery leading up to the election, with 92-million mail ballots passing through the system. And so far, it’s not good. In several major cities in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, as much as 60% of mail isn’t being delivered on time these days.
Nationwide, the Postal Service reports at least 40% of mail isn’t getting delivered on time every day. Now, that number may seem shocking on the face of it, but doesn’t mean very much by itself. But compare it to the Postal Service’s own records for earlier in year, and the decline is astonishing. Back then by the same measures, on time delivery was running at more than 90% across the country, meaning only 10% of mail wasn’t getting there on time.
But of course that was before Trump handpicked one of his chief fundraisers, Louis DeJoy to take over as Postmaster General. The Postal Service says it’s doing better…
