In battle over mail-in voting, the mail in Minnesota is running late
Miller, a
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Still, examples of slow mail delivery now abound in
As the battle over mail-in voting intensifies ahead of the November election, some customers feel as if they have become collateral damage.
"I ordered the supplies on Friday," she said. "I paid extra for priority two-day delivery. The package shipped on Monday. I tracked the package online. It sat for four days in a mail facility in
DeJoy issued a memo recently that directed mail carriers to leave mail behind if it was not sorted by regularly scheduled departure times. The document, titled "New PMG's [Postmaster General's] expectations and plan," reads in part, "If the plants run late, they will keep the mail for the next day."
"We want to deliver every piece, every day," she added, noting that customers sometimes get their packages a day late.
While mail carriers assemble the mail for their routes, postal clerks sort the packages, and postal officials in the branches sometimes want the carriers to begin their routes before the package sorting has been completed, Hartwig said.
Trump critics such as Minnesota Democratic
Klobuchar has led or signed three letters from Democratic lawmakers asking DeJoy to explain his policies. She says they have received no answers. "It's nakedly transparent what they are doing," she said.
Klobuchar pointed to recent statements by Trump, who opposes extra funding to the post office to handle an expected deluge of mail-in ballots during the pandemic. On Thursday, Trump told
Trump has repeatedly invoked the potential for fraud in mail-in voting.
States across the country are expanding access to mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, with 34 states and the
Minnesota
As the debate over mail-in voting heats up in
"The delays affect people's lives and livelihoods," said Miller, the retired postal worker in
Miller says new policies directed at holding back mail run against everything postal workers are trained to do, and he believes it may violate federal law dealing with delaying the mail.
"You're taught to protect the mail, not to leave it behind," Miller said. "You're always drilled on the sanctity of mail. I don't think he has the right to curtail the mail."
DeJoy's policy of sending out mail carriers at specific times whether or not their mail loads are complete strikes Sandifer as self-defeating.
"We rely on
Financial disclosure reports show that DeJoy and his wife have invested between
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The package never arrived. Blair filed a claim but has yet to find out what happened to her granddaughter's gifts. She talked to people at the post office. The problem, they told her, was the postmaster's order.
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