Outgoing mail sorting machines at U.S. post offices can process thousands of letters per hour.
“Mail sorters can process up to 55,000 #10 envelopes per hour. Systems can scan and archive mail piece images during the sort process for compliance and proof of mailing. Multi-Line Optical Character Reader (MLOCR) technology can also read and validate both machine-print and handwritten pieces.”
Obviously, mail sorter machines are improvements that increase mail delivery productivity. Why would anyone want to remove them from post offices...and then dismantle them? There is no good answer to this question.
So why is Postmaster General DeJoy being such a bad boy? There are no good reasons. Here are a few unsavory ones. Maybe it's that Mr. DeJoy considers himself not in charge of an essential service for Americans, but rather CEO of a private business that he'll strip down to the bones so profitability can be improved. Maybe running the Post Office as a business is a pretext for making the Post Office so bad that Americans will turn to private companies for mail delivery. Maybe Louis DeJoy is a Trump operative in charge of making voting by mail-in ballots impossible. Maybe he is a sociopath who takes pleasure in old soldiers and old people not receiving medications and Social Security checks in a timely way. Maybe all of the above.
During the scourge of the pandemic and right before a national election, however, is not the time for Louis DeJoy to be acting out. Tomorrow, August 21, Friday, 9:00 a.m, DeJoy will sit for a Senate Oversight hearing. Ask him why he is removing mail sorting machines from post offices and then prepare yourself to listen to his cunning, duplicitous answer.
