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Originally Posted by BarryD

Postmaster General (PMG) Actions (Making Mail Slower)
• Forbes reports that PMG dismantled and removed over 600 sorting machines, which each process 35,000 pieces of mail per hour. Forget any claim of innocence you may hear.
• PMG prohibited overtime and (replacement) hiring despite staffing shortages from COVID-19.
• Former Attorney General, Eric Holder said that anyone who “willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail” can face fines and imprisonment of up to six months. .

And herein is the rub to your argument. The USPS is facing a severe financial deficit because of all that you posted above. The Postmaster General has an OBLIGATION to do what needs to be done to reduce costs since Congress ( AKA the House) has failed for years to appropriate the necessary monies to keep USPS solvent. As to the sorting machines, they are ancient technology with multiple mechanical parts prone to breakdown. New digital sorters are being installed as funds allow. As to mailboxes, we all know now that many were simply being replaced with new boxes and others were being removed because their use was below the base standards set by USPS. Anyone who gets mail can also PUT mail there to be delivered elsewhere.

This whole Kabuki Theatre issue of some nefarious goings on is, as Shakespeare put it, "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".