Fred Klonsky says there are many reasons to worry about postal service, including delivery of medicines.

Open the link and see the photograph of the discarded mailboxes.

Destroying federal property is a crime, isn’t it?

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Joe Jersey says:

August 19, 2020 at 12:56 pm

I can relate to Fred Klonsky’s article since I have opted to have may medications mailed to me also. Since the onset of the virus, I call CVS to mail the medications and then it’s charged to my credit card. Just this past week, I received the medication within 2 days. I’m in central NJ and I’m getting my mail and my outgoing mail is getting to its destination in a timely fashion so far. There have been more incidents of misplaced mail which I make sure goes to the proper address, usually close to my apartment. I ordered stamps online from the USPS and that did take longer than usual, 2 weeks. I still pay most of my bills through snail mail and there have been no problems or SNAFUs thus far. The companies are getting their payments within a few days. Thank you, USPS.

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retired teacher says:

August 19, 2020 at 1:14 pm

Even if DeJoy reverses all his attempts sabotage the mail service, in my opinion there will still be a great deal of work that must be done to keep the USPS public. In 2006 an unsustainable pension deal was made to undermine the fiscal health of the USPS. It is burdening our mail service to make it vulnerable to takeover. Gee, this sounds familiar!

We need a postal service that is independent and free from politics. Too many important documents need to be distributed for the USPS to be turned over to private companies. An anti-immigration CEO could tamper with documents or discard them. Ballots could be lost in a tight political race. If there is one thing we have learned about privatization, it is that many companies cannot be trusted. We need a USPS that serves the public, not corporations.

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- dianeravitch says:
  
  August 19, 2020 at 1:46 pm
  
  Trump appointed the majority of the governing board of USPS.
  
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Robert Rendo, Educator says:

August 19, 2020 at 1:22 pm

The question is whether or not all the sorting machines and mailboxes there were removed will be restored and up and running well in time for the election. What a bunch of bastards. Americans are willing cows to the slaughterhouse for having supported this administration, and it will catch up with them.

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- dianeravitch says:
  
  August 19, 2020 at 1:45 pm
  
  I wondered the same, Robert. DeJoy has already removed and apparently destroyed 671 high-volume mail sorting machines. How can he put them back in service? Thousands of postal boxes were ripped out. Will they be replaced?
  
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  - Robert Rendo, Educator says:
    
    August 19, 2020 at 4:25 pm
    
    Horrifying and infuriating, I am SO angry!!! These guys are exactly like a bunch of junior high school bullies. They need to have their lights punched out. My dad’s first cousin’s wife had hers removed in Santa Barbara, CA. She said hers had been there for 39 years! SAME box all along. She is 82. She deserves better.
SomeDAM Poet says:

August 19, 2020 at 1:50 pm

Mail the Donald

Mail the Donald
Anywhere!
Mail to Ronald!
We don’t care!

Mail to arctic
Polar bear!
Quite cathartic
Mail him there!

Mail to moon
Or outer space!
Do it soon
To anyplace!

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- retiredbutmissthekids says:
  
  August 20, 2020 at 2:18 am
  
  Great one, SDP! Now…could you write one about DeJoy w/the rhythm* of, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch?”
  (*or meter, since it’s a poem)
  
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Eddie says:

August 23, 2020 at 5:59 pm

With eCards, emails, texts and cellphones, postal mail has been dying slowly. Greeting cards, letters and mailing documents has become passe’. 😐

Also, in some areas, (usually White) kids, teenagers and young adults have been exploding blue boxes. ☹️

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