“Dismantled machines ‘are generally dissembled for their usable parts, with such parts being removed to maintain or enhance other machines,’” DeJoy, a loyalist and major contributor to President Donald Trump’s campaign, stated in his response. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told a federal court that hundreds of high-speed mail sorting machines he ordered removed cannot be returned to service because they were stripped for parts . @USPS GR Patterson location has pieces of the mail sorting machines out in the parking lot. @WOODTV pic.twitter.com/OuugjhTbfEEach of the machines can sort 36,000 pieces of mail an hour, vastly speeding mail processing and delivery. The Postal Service then sent letters to 47 states that it could no longer guarantee that mail-in ballots would be delivered on time.

Source: Huffington Post September 25, 2020 12:00 UTC