The U.S. Postal Service is barring lawmakers from touring postal facilities ahead of Election day, claiming potential violations of the Hatch Act
to the USPS September 30 saying that they were denied a visit to a USPS processing and distribution center in Kearny, New Jersey, because the visit “places Postal Service employees at an unreasonable risk of violating the Hatch Act,” and theRep. Jared Huffman was also denied a post office visit over potential Hatch Act violations after requesting a visit August 17.
Scott Slusher, a manager in the Postal Service’s government liaison office, wrote in an email to Rep. Bill Pascrell reported by thethat “the heated nature of campaigns” and employees’ political opinions means “the potential for an employee to knowingly or unwittingly violate the Hatch Act—and be held to account by another employee—is simply too great.
Hatch Act concerns “can be mitigated without denying routine congressional oversight,” the New Jersey lawmakers argued in their letter, and Huffman told thethat “to even presume [his requested visit] had anything to do with the campaign is itself insulting.”from touring USPS facilities in September—due to her office giving insufficiently “short notice,” a USPS spokeswoman toldreports that the USPS has been “uneven” in granting some lawmakers visits over the summer and denying others.
in a sworn affidavit in September that postal managers hid up to 54,000 pieces of delayed mail and “dressed up” sorting machines that had been destroyed when Rep. Joaquin Castro visited a USPS facility in San Antonio, Texas, in August.“Members of Congress have a responsibility to conduct oversight of federal services, particularly when we hear from constituents that those services are not functioning properly,” Sen. Gary Peters told the.
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