An Aug. 6 letter signed by 84 members of the House described the Postal Service management’s attempts to mislead Congress. In the letter, which 80 Democrats signed along with four Republicans, the members wrote, “On July 22 your General Counsel and Executive Vice President sent a letter to the Oversight Committee claiming that these documents are not ‘official Postal Service memoranda.’ ” It goes on to explain that the general counsel, Thomas Marshall, stated the orders were prepared by a “mid-level manager” and therefore “should not be treated as official statements of Postal Service policy.”
The members, in their letter, described widespread complaints that indicate the actions were not undertaken by a rogue manager and noted the Postal Service failed to alert industry officials, postal unions, members of Congress and other stakeholders of the changes. “If these claims in your General Counsel’s letter are accurate — that these recently publicized documents should not be treated as official statements of Postal Service policy — then we urge you to immediately issue a directive to all Postal Service employees explaining that none of the changes in the documents is valid, none of them was approved by Postal Service headquarters, and none of them should go into effect.”
Funny, neither Marshall — nor anyone else at USPS — has done any such thing.
The campaign against the Postal Service is just one arm of a several-pronged strategy Trump is using to knee-cap vote-by-mail.
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