I have tried to stay quiet about commenting on the problem with the postal service’s very slow delivery. My son in Baltimore County mailed my Christmas Card on Dec. 20 and I did not receive it until Jan. 26!! This was the second card we received a month after it was mailed.
I am seeing more and more negative and misunderstood comments about postal employees. Folks who are not political junkies like I am probably do not understand what Trump did to cause this. I am retired from a U.S. senator’s office in Maryland as her state director and I understand the federal government. The recent Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was appointed in the last year of Trump’s term. Trump had appointed him and the postmaster general cannot be removed by a president. That power lies with the postal service’s governing board whose six sitting members were all appointed by President Trump as a result of a Republican-controlled Senate blocking a slate of President Barack Obama’s nominees.
So, unless he resigns soon, our postal service mail system is set for destruction! Why did Trump do this? He knew that people were going to be voting by mail mostly, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our family drove the ballots from home to the Georgetown election office! If you can remember, he was urging his supporters to go the polls! Many of the African Americans across the U.S. actually went to the polls! Thank God!
If you live in Sussex County, our mail is sent up to Wilmington before it is sorted. DeJoy removed the two sorting machines from the post office there and other state offices throughout the U.S. Therefore, it could be many days before the mail is sorted by hand and even leaves Delaware!
If you are concerned, contact your federal elected officials and encourage them to work with President Biden to try and get some Republican support to fix this problem before our postal service goes totally under.
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