There is a lot of discussion about the Postal Service and on a different diary there were questions that made me think the commenter was not thinking about the scale of vandalism and sabotage that PostMaster General DeJoy has created. As a public service it occurred to me that seeing the size of the machines and the sophistication would help everyone visualize the degree to which DeJoy is stealing the legacy of America. I picked out some videos and they are below the fold.
UPDATE: I’m honored to make the rec list. I thank my peers on this site. This was a workaday diary just to help people understand the logistical facts of the issue at hand. I think the guy on the second video is “Navy Trained” as so many industrial workers are. DeJoy and his minions are tearing the fabric of ingenuity that makes this country an industrial powerhouse.
This is a nine minute and twentytwo second video that shows the kind of machines used in a distribution center:
It shows the pieces of the overall machine. To me, it it about the sophistication of a new photocopy machine, only the footprint is the size of a foot ball field. How much would you estimate this particular setup would cost? I think it is in the millions for each machine, representing an investment over the course of decades. Sure DeJoy and his vandals can remove them easily but it is very difficult for me to believe that some sort of team of experts could do so in a few days with the care that would be needed to re-assemble them elsewhere.
Brooklyn Center
This one is ninety minutes, created by a worker in Brooklyn. The man has an intimate knowledge of the parts. You probably need to love Legos or 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzles to stick with it all the way. The narrator is obviously well-trained in the operations:
At one point (46:40), he does a walk-through of a machine under construction/assembly. It’s taking up the space of a football field, literally and he can’t show the whole thing in just one screen.
The takeaway is, once you put one of these in place, they are not “portable,” they are meant to stay there until eternity, It’s not moving an ATM to a different mall or something. Even if they were able to dissemble it, it would take months to label the parts during any move. And, the idea that it could be rapidly re-assembled in another location for say, the Christmas Rush, is utter bullshit. I think Dejoy and his minions are counting on the fact that the general public is unaware of how big these things are and at the same time, how intricate they are when they are doing their job. When DeJoy tries to say that somehow he can restore the damage he has done to critical infrastructure, he need to called out on his BS.
Better persons than me have described the toll on the customers, the nefarious purposes driving this national vandalism, and the piles of mail laying around. I am posting this to make sure everyone knows the technical scale of the removal of machines.
