Don’t reconnect mailing machines, USPS tells plants. Tacoma does it anyway

One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US. This is the sort of thing we should expect to happen in Venezuela, Haiti, Russia, or Afghanistan...and now it is our political reality. My great grandparents left Portugal for the US, then a beacon of freedom, when things like this started happening in the 1920s. I'm reliving all of their stories now, and now I'm thinking I might have to emigrate back to Portugal, which is now a relative beacon of freedom.

I've had one package disappear. Another came a month late, with the dvds gone and the low-value remaining in someone else's box and my label taped on.

I couldn't help but think... are some employees sitting out covid and is chaos in charge?

The given reason was "they don't need them anymore because mail volume is down". It was a cost cutting measure.

However, if you look at the data, mail volume isn't down enough to justify removing the machines, and more importantly there is an expected massive spike in mail volume in the next few months as record numbers of people vote by mail. Also most of these removals have been in cities that traditionally vote Democrat.

So really the answer is, "to slow down the mail so that there is doubt cast upon the validity of the election results and also to try and stop absentee ballots that are most likely voting for Democrats from arriving on time".

If you disconnect machines, you can slow down the mail, which means that you can slow down the votes of people who have indicated via polls that they are overwhelmingly going to vote for someone else.

It's actually an authorized power, not a responsibility (arguably, the responsibility being a view of the founders can be viewed as an implicit in the power, but only the power is express in the text.)

And they know, they just don't care.