But if not, then it sits there for the next day.” A USPS postal worker wears a face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic in hard-hit Imperial County on Jin El Centro, Calif. ![]() If there's people that are available that still have time left and not going into overtime, they can take them out. ![]() “They can't come back to grab more packages that may come in later to then take back out and deliver. “And there's no overtime, so they can't take out extra loads at the stations when the carriers leave for the day,” he said. Robert Helmig, president of the Colorado Postal Workers Union, said that a lot of mail is currently backed up on the docks of the Postal Service plants in his state leading to massive delays with little hope of a quick delivery. Nevertheless, postal workers say it is the personnel policies that have caused the most damage to timely deliveries - now the focus of scrutiny as states were warned that vote-by-mail ballots could be discarded because they won't arrive on time to be counted. The Postal Service said the removals were related to a decrease in letter volume. Questions also surround the removal of blue Postal Service mailboxes, as well as the decommissioning of 671 letter-sorting machines at Postal Service facilities, though those removals likely predate DeJoy’s appointment in May as the postmaster general. ![]() During his testimony, DeJoy is likely to be asked about why he banned overtime work and extra routes taken by postal carriers to deliver the mail on time.
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