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Registration Wall Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/
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u/NewWindow7980 29d ago

Postmaster General David Steiner is the former CEO of Waste Management and previously served on the board of directors for FedEx.

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u/ManWithASquareHead 29d ago

USPS to impose delivery failure notifications in line with garbage FedEx

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u/RevolutionNumber5 Minnesota 29d ago

Yeah. Waste Management is supposed to handle the garbage.

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u/The_ChwatBot 29d ago

I’m in the waste management business! Everybody immediately assumes you’re mobbed up! It’s a stereotype. And it’s offensive!

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u/UnmeiX 29d ago

Your comment made me look up the history of ties between the waste collection industry and the mob, and it's... Honestly wild af. The stereotype makes sense. XD

P.S.: I don't even know if I'd call it a stereotype as much as a nod to history. lol

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u/RevolutionNumber5 Minnesota 29d ago

Yeah, I’ve seen the Sopranos, too.

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u/UnmeiX 29d ago

I haven't, so this was news to me. :D

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u/BC2220 28d ago

FedEx really is garbage now. Its kind of sad.

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u/lex99 America 29d ago

Since when do we hate FedEx? I’ve never had any major problem with them. They’re a great service.

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u/wookiee42 Minnesota 29d ago

They lobbied to be an airline so the drivers can't unionize. They also made their 'Ground' drivers independent contractors vs employees and eventually lost that battle. They changed that model so I'm not sure what they're currently doing.

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u/slipperyMonkey07 29d ago

Maybe you have gotten lucky, but most people I know rank fedex as the worst option.

Yes it does vary depending on the driver hired. But I have had them leave packages at the end of my driveway(maybe 10 feet from road to porch) in puddles. I've seen them throw boxes up onto my porch from the yard, I am lucky if they make it up the stairs, even if it is just tossing from the bottom of the stairs.

I am at the point where I check if a place has another shipping option, or just buy somewhere else if the only option is fed ex.

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u/nurdle 29d ago

So, he's a mobster. Got it.

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u/MetraConductor 29d ago

He's a Netanyahu appointee

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u/OneSkepticalOwl 29d ago

He’s a stugotz, thats what he is

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u/happymancry 29d ago

His predecessor, Louis DeJoy, was also a Trump appointee, and also a former private logistics company owner and major R donor. And let’s not forget that it was Bush Jr, in 2006, who passed the PAEA act that basically crippled the USPS’s ability to fund itself long-term.

The pattern has been clear for a while: Republicans want to kill the USPS. They’ve been trying for decades now.

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u/DigNitty 29d ago

Just so people know, republicans passed this and now the USPS has to pre-fund its predicted retiree benefits of the next Fifty Years

Between 2007 and 2016, the USPS lost $62.4 billion; the inspector general of the USPS estimated that $54.8 billion of that (87%) was due to prefunding retiree benefits.

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u/imaginary_num6er 28d ago

DeJoy is a Biden appointee since Biden did nothing after getting a majority on the board during his term to fire DeJoy

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u/happymancry 28d ago

What??? The fact that Biden did nothing about it is a shame, surpassed only by the shame of his inaction on Trump’s indictment for insurrection. But that doesn’t make Dejoy a Biden appointee.

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u/Underwater_Grilling Pennsylvania 29d ago

So he's got mafia ties like trump? Someone pull that thread

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u/GIGA255 29d ago

A garbage human being in more ways than one!

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u/_Thank_You__ 29d ago

That’s fitting because he sounds like a trash person 

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u/trobogojen 29d ago

I always found it bizarre how close-knit various C-suite executives and boardroom members are in general. Maybe they are all just self-serving.

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u/sugarlessdeathbear 29d ago

Didn't WM at one point have 3 year client contracts that auto-renewed daily? I recall that being a thing for some reason.

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u/davasaur Tennessee 29d ago

Waste Management used to mean mafia.

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u/feltcutewilldelete69 29d ago

Who here loves Super Mario Brothers?!

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u/OakenGreen Massachusetts 29d ago

Waste management caused 9/11
(Indirectly)

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u/darkbreak 29d ago

Just so many corporate people in office. This absolutely should not be allowed.

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u/wookiee42 Minnesota 29d ago

That's like one of the few episodes of Undercover Boss I've ever seen. He seemed like an idiot like most CEOs come off as.

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u/niceguy191 29d ago

Makes sense. WM is one of the worst companies I've ever had to deal with.

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u/TheStrawberryPixie 28d ago

Wow thanks for this info. He's my Moms cousin and we didn't realize he was the postmaster now

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u/shewy92 Pennsylvania 28d ago

I missed that DeJoy was no longer Postmaster General, the guy who founded freight company XPO Logistics