Even if DeJoy isn’t trying to rig the election for Trump, the slowdown at the USPS can still have terrible ramifications for vulnerable people
Postal workers have had a long and difficult year. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images When Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies in the House next week, Mike Cinelli won’t be present. But Cinelli, a Long Island postal worker, has plenty to say. About his job, for decades a reliable step toward a middle-class life. About his bosses, who make that job more difficult by the week.
That leaves workers and consumers alike in a bind. In conversations with Intelligencer, workers and union leaders blame DeJoy and a longstanding conservative campaign to privatize the postal service for the slowdown. Morale is low, though they’re eager to reassure Americans that the postal service is still functioning, and that workers are still doing their jobs despite a concerted attack on their efforts. To paraphrase the old feminist slogan, Cinelli’s woes aren’t just personal, but political.
That backlog has consequences. The possibility that DeJoy’s slowdown will threaten voting by mail in November reinforces anti-democratic rhetoric from President Trump. The beleaguered incumbent has claimed, repeatedly and falsely, that mail-in ballots encourage fraud and that universal voting by mail would be “catastrophic.
Postal workers themselves have told reporters that they believe they can handle an election as long as voters mail in ballots well ahead of November 6. Freeman repeats that sentiment to Intelligencer. “I’m confident in what we do as postal workers,” he says. “It’s the culture to make sure we get the mail out.” The postal service won’t exactly rebound if consumers avoid using it. But the agency needs a federal bailout, and deprivation has consequences that reach far beyond the election.
“They do see what’s going on around them across the country, and how people are getting on TV and talking badly about them,” he says of his members. “They know they come into work every day and put their lives on the line to take care of people.”
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