The USPS is 'ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives' during the 2020 election season, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday that the U.S. Postal Service will temporarily suspend some of the operational changes it announced earlier this year due to concerns about the potential impacts those changes could have on mail-in voting during the 2020 presidential election.
The changes caused the House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, to askbefore the committee and address their concerns about how those changes might affect mail delivery timelines. DeJoy is expected to testify before the committee next week.
"The Postal Service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall," DeJoy said in a statement."Even with the challenges of keeping our employees and customers safe and healthy as they operate amid a pandemic, we will deliver the nation's election mail on time and within our well-established service standards."
An American flag waves outside a Post Office as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on August 17, 2020 in New York City. On Tuesday, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced the USPS will temporarily halt changes it was making amid concerns that those changes would impact mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election.
To ensure that election materials are delivered on time, DeJoy said the USPS will keep mail processing facilities open, keep the equipment used to process and collect mail in place, make no changes to retail post offices' hours of operation and approve overtime for its 630,000 employees as needed.reached out to Maloney's office for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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