To all current United States Postal Service employees and managers
I worked for and retired from the USPS after a 44 year career, starting out as a clerk-carrier and retiring as a Postmaster. I have worked during every single election held since 1966. Dring these years, we had certain rules during elections which we all followed to ensure all ballots and election materials were delivered in a timely fashion. All incoming political mail, which was logged in on day of receipt and logged in on day of delivery, and how many pieces weren't delivered due to bad addresses or for whatever reason. Politicians and prospective elected officials had the ability to call our office and find out information on receipt and delivery of their paid for political mail. We also, every single one of us, followed religiously, the Hatch Act. We never discussed politics at work with each other or with the public. This political mail reporting form also included all voting materials sent out by the state including their ballots which they have to fill out to vote.
Every election, we also receive a pkt of information from our district USPS showing us which labeling form to use for all the different return ballots as we service more than one county at our local PO. We have the carriers separate return ballots from their other collection mail so the ballots can be isolated and swiftly returned to the county clerk for them to verify and count. If a carrier comes in late from their route and the dispatch truck has left and gone to the USPS plant, we supervisors are still required to get those ballots to either the USPS plant or to the county clerk. I have driven many times to USPS plant with late mail containing ballots that came in late. We are given labels for the trays of ballots for the different counties and
take great care to label and sleeve the trays of ballots. We lived by the motto, every piece, every day.
The directive the PM General recently issued, saying no ballot will be cancelled or delivered back to election offices if the state hasn't given Trump all the personal voting information of every voter in state is illegal and goes against every regulation in USPS service manuals. We have no authority to delay mail and as a matter of fact, any PO employee who even dares deliberately to delay mail, would be fired.
Speak out about this. It's frightening how illegal this administration is conducting business and promoting people who willingly would break the law for Trump.
Write to your congressman, senator, governor and state AG and ask them to join the lawsuit against this illegal action.
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... and I've always dropped my ballots (as well as other important mail) in the box in front of the main office. It really speeds up delivery. However we have no mail problem in Pittsburgh, our postal workers would never pay attention to an illegal, politically-motivated directive anyway.
