“Now, they need that money in order to make the Post Office work, so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said. Bulk mail delivery takes three to 10 days, according to the Postal Service, while first-class mail delivery takes two to five days. ADDemocrats worry the Postal Service may issue new directions for handling election mail and attribute those changes to the USPS’s financial difficulties and DeJoy’s cost-cutting mandate. The Senate and House Democratic caucuses wrote to DeJoy on Wednesday urging him not to change election mail processing practices. He ordered supervisors to reduce overtime hours and forbade postal workers to make extra trips to ensure on-time mail delivery.

Source: Washington Post August 12, 2020 21:38 UTC