Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has instituted several policies that are "truly slowing down the mail," and no matter what the motivation may be, the "actual deed is what has us concerned," American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein said Tuesday.
"The customers see it," Dimondstein said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "We're hearing from customers all over the country. The postal workers see it and mail is getting backed up."
Part of the issue is that the USPS can't do away with all overtime, as the work is still there at a time when there are 40,000 postal workers quarantined because of the coronavirus pandemic, and changing mail transportation runs are also slowing down the mail service, Dimondstein added.
DeJoy is to testify Friday before the Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Dimondstein said postal workers hope he speaks at the hearing and that he fixes some of the problems the USPS faces.
The postmaster general has acknowledged that some of the cuts have slowed down the mail, but the concern also comes at a time when Democrats say the cutbacks are politically motivated to benefit President Donald Trump, who strongly opposes universal mail-in voting.
Dimonstein also called on Congress to help fund the USPS, as it is projecting a $50 billion revenue loss because of COVID-19 but got no stimulus help, and admitted it is a fair assessment that the Postal Service could have difficulty processing mail-in ballots. But still, he rejected the idea by Trump and others that the process is not secure.
"Our advice is vote early, vote quickly and if it's too tight, most of the states allow the mail ballots to come to the home and fill it out and they have dropbox points," he said.
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