Letter to the Hon. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service - Schumer: USPS still in chaos; pushes new two-prong plan to reverse destructive changes to the Postal Service impacting communities throughout Hudson Valley; legislation would immediately undo recent crippling changes, cement mail-in ballots as first class priority & protect USPS from further devastation
Letter
Dear Postmaster DeJoy:
I am writing to follow-up on our phone call on Tuesday, August 18 regarding your decision to halt some operational changes until after the November election. As I said during our call, there is a lot of mistrust between the American public and the United States Postal Service right now because of statements you and President Trump have made about cutbacks in mail delivery during the COVID-19 public health emergency, and about mail-in voting through Election Day. Therefore, I am asking for specific responses to the following questions:
1. Please outline specifically what operational initiatives and reforms you will be pausing between now and Election Day. What reforms do you plan to continue with during this period?
2. Your statement mentioned nothing about treating all election mail as First Class mail, regardless of whether it was sent at the non-profit rate of 20 cents. As you know, this issue is of great concern to Secretaries of State and Board of Elections across the country. Will you commit to returning to that practice?
3. In your statement, you state that prior to the Election, no mail processing facilities will be closed and that mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes will remain where they are. However, over the last week there has been documentation that mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes have already moved. Will USPS replace those items?
4. Please provide a list of all of the locations where mail processing equipment and blue collection boxes have been removed over the past two weeks, and any accompanying analysis on who it will impact mail delivery in those areas.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
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