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US Postal Service Chief: No Cutbacks Before Election

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy vowed Tuesday that
   mailed-in ballots in the November 3 presidential election willbe
   delivered "on time" and suspended until after the election all changes
   at the agency that Democrats claimed would possibly have kept millions
   of votes from being sent to election officials to be counted.

   DeJoy, a wealthy campaign donor to Republican President Donald Trump
   whom Trumpappointed to head the U.S. Postal Service, said in a
   statement that the agency "is ready today to handle whatever volume of
   election mail it receives this fall."

   DeJoy declared, "We will deliver the nation's election mail on time and
   within our well-established service standards. The American public
   should know that this is our number one priority between now and
   Election Day."

   He said cost-cutting measures he has undertaken at the deficit-ridden
   agency will be put on hold until after Election Day "to avoid even the
   appearance of any impact on election mail." Mail-in voting in the U.S.
   starts in some states in September.

   DeJoy had curtailed overtime pay for workers, which postal critics said
   had resulted in recent delivery delays.

   But he said that "overtime has, and will continue to be, approved as
   needed."

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