That dilemma stems from newly proposed USPS rules that seek to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed this spring to crack down on mail-in voting. If courts let the order stand, it would give the federal government an unprecedented role in elections — and could put even more voter data in the hands of Trump officials searching for supposed election fraud.

  • Lutra@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 hours ago

    “Trump wants postal service to block mail in ballots for states that don’t suck up to his rules”

    Same reality, highlighting the insanity of the actor.

  • rynn@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    4 hours ago

    So what’s stopping states from sending ballots via ups or fedex? Like I know that’s more expensive but if democracy and privacy are at stake is this an option for the short term?

    • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      3 hours ago

      It was at stake in 2024, people couldn’t give two shits then. Why would they now when more and more obstacles are being thrown in the way by the shitbags they allowed into power in the first place.

  • Red0ctober@lemmy.world
    69·
    8 hours ago

    Wow, another illegal move by the fascist party. Can’t wait for SCOTUS to fuck the states yet again.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    8 hours ago

    The executive branch doesn’t run or control the post office. Of course that won’t stop them from trying. Wondering who will bring the first lawsuit.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      You need to catch up on the last decade or so. Dejoy did irreperable damage. Biden blamed inactivity on not being able to intervene with board of governors. Trump does so without reservation of course. New dickhead postmaster general was a FedEx board member who’s tasked with setting the USPS up to fail and force a privatization play… And make the uniforms more “hot” as trump directed.

      Here’s some of the story: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/22/twcq-n22.html

    • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
      30·
      8 hours ago

      the feds don’t run states’ elections either, even for federal offices.

  • Shortrib@lemmy.world
    96·
    8 hours ago

    The US postal service has enough financial problems without dropping a new job on them.

    • FullPenguin@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 hours ago

      USPS is not a business, and therefore not required to be profitable.

      Furthermore, USPS’s financial problems that consistently make headlines were manufactured by a 2006 federal act that required them to prefund health and retirement benefits 75 years in advance. The policy was a republican gift to private shipping companies (UPS, FedEx, etc), it was repealed under Biden.

      Although they are still stuck with the contract Trump 1 saddled them with for awful and expensive delivery vehicles.

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Although they are still stuck with the contract Trump 1 saddled them with for awful and expensive delivery vehicles.

        The replacement procurement process was started in January 2015, before Trump. And the contract itself was signed by Biden in 2021.

        Do you have anything to back up the NGDV being awful? Because from everything I can find that’s not the case. They’re much safer (airbags, anti-lock brakes, and crumple zones), and have Air Conditioning. The commentary I can find from actual USPS workers seems pretty positive. Most of the complaints are more from armchair redditors about the design, which is obviously secondary to the utility for this type of use case. Or they are complaints about the 10/90 BEV/ICE procurement split decided by the Trump admin, citing cost… even though the price difference was only about $3 Billion. Not actually complaints about the NGDV itself being a bad replacement for the LLV.

        The NGDV uses modern components, has modern safety features (the old LLV basically had none), and it’s available with both an ICE and BEV powertrain, and the ICE option can be swapped out later to the BEV, it’s not stuck being a gas powered vehicle forever.

        The old Grumman LLV has needed a replacement for decades. Anecdotally, I had two spontaneously catch fire in front on our house several years ago, about a month or so apart from failed components, likely due to age. Maintaining them cost a fortune because of that.

        Mail delivery is a near perfect use case for a BEV. Nearly identical routes every day, less than 70 miles total, with known time and distances. And long times of non-use overnight to charge the batteries, no fast charge needed.