Voting by mail alert.🚨
USPS: Mailbox weirdness
Tried to mail a letter at 4 different mailboxes within a mile of one anothwr yesterday in Bklyn, NYC.
All 4 had were obstructed behind the slot that made it impossible to insert a letter (or anything). Also their labels w/ PU times were scratched out.
Which is all to say, check your local mailboxes are in working order. You can easily feel the obstruction with your fingers or try a piece of junk mail.
Considering DeJoy’s shenanigans in 2020...
Follow-up on Mailbox weirdness:
Local USPS Postal Office official states:
“Due to the many complaints we are receiving regarding mail theft, we’re shutting down and will be removing blue mail boxes, people can give mail to their mail carrier or go to their local post-office.”
Me: “There’s no mail box outside this post office…”
PO Official: “Yes, we had to remove that one due to theft also.”
Me: “will this be happening in other neighborhoods and other states.”
PO Person: “Yes.”
Me: “…..”
More recent mailbox removal piece fromJuly 2023:
“As crime rises, so do the threats against our public servants,” said Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy. “The men and women of the Postal Service are walking our nation’s streets every day to fulfil our mission of delivering mail and packages to the American people. Every Postal employee deserves to work in safety and to be free from targeting by criminals seeking to access the public’s mail.”
https://www.wxxv25.com/usps-removes-outside-mailboxes-at-post-office-in-effort-to-reduce-theft1/
@TheAbbotTrithemius [shaking fist] DeJOY!!!!
Near me, several years back, they had removed all the convenient mailboxes. Then they moved them to an inconveniently distant corner which now had 3 to 5 mailboxes on it.
Then they complain that nobody uses mail anymore and they increase the price of stamps.
@DavidSalo @TheAbbotTrithemius it’s a strategy to kill the USPS
So frustrating. He really does need to go.
@TheAbbotTrithemius Crime is down so that's transparently bogus. What're they up to?
Exactly. It like wagging the dog by screeching like an overdramatic MAGA goon, so mailboxes can be fxkn borked. If there was theft and new boxes were ordered why aren’t they already installed and the old ones removed??
This is soo incredibly fucked up. Biden can do the country yet another solid by asking for Dejoy’s resignation, but this feels like active sabotage with no time to fix the boxes…
@TheAbbotTrithemius Sounds like bullshit to me.
@TheAbbotTrithemius I received a letter last week that took a month to go 90 miles.F### the U.S.P.S.
@IslandNewsService @TheAbbotTrithemius
Exactly the sentiment Dejoy is working hard to cultivate. ☹️
@TheAbbotTrithemius That’s what a read 🙃
I’ve personally never had a problem with using the blue boxes and I use them monthly and there has been zero snnouncement about this.
Incredibly the last time they tried this was exactly 4 years ago in August of 2020:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/politics/usps-removes-letter-collection-boxes-reduces-post-office-operating-hours/index.html
#DejoyNeedsToGo