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Bust-Out Scam at Postal Service Gets Political

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/17/20

The question about whether steps taken by a new Postmaster General—who just happens to be one of Donald Trump's biggest campaign contributorsthat will significantly delay postal service hadn't even been completed when Randi Weingarten replied, "I think it's blatantly political. Slowing anything down right now is terrible, and doing it just to try to win an election is even worse."

The president of the American Federation of Teachers was reacting to the latest steps taken Aug. 7 by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to "restructure" the U.S. Postal Service less than three months before the Nov. 3 election, in a year in which fears about the coronavirus have made much of the nation far more inclined to vote by mail than in the past.

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