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Planning to treat election mail differently this year, no longer giving them the priority of first class mail. >> we will deploy processes and procedures that advance any election mail in some cases ahead of first class mail. >> if people vote within 7 days of election, are you confident highly confident, that those ballots would be received. >> extremely confident. >> his assurances and support of vote by mail, stand in stark contrast to president trump, who has repeatedly railed against univer...

Employees as theyre all standing up on the facility floor, and it talks about in effect cuts to overtime. it says, late trips, extra trips are no longer authorized or accepted. carriers must begin on time, leave for the street on time and return on time. additional transportation will be authorized to dispatch mail to the plant after the intended dispatch. so you can see here how this has the effect of limiting worker hours and this is precisely what led led to the delays. and we got the talking...

Theres concerns about how our elections are going to be administered because the u.s. postal service themselves sent a letter to the commonwealth of pennsylvania saying we may not be able to deliver your ballots on time due to the changes made, changes that were illegal, because the chienkinds of chang they have made are required to go through the postal regulatory system for approval, so experts can look at the information and determine whether it will go forward. that never happened. we know d...

Until after the election is concluded. geoff bennett joins me now. geoff, wow, i guess a little bit of political pressure goes a long ways these days. >> political pressure and pressure from the american people. remember, the concerns about the delays at the u.s. postal service extended beyond those ballots. it was retirees who had been waiting for their checks. small business owners who had already been slammed by the pandemic. who were doubly slammed by these shipment delays and u.s. veterans ...

Based on the changes the postmaster general has made >> nope. not a thing. >> none. from the top down. from the top down. >> reporter: the postal workers we spoke with insist the post office has the capacity to handle the expected surge in mail-in ballots. >> we handle over a billion christmas cards every holiday season we can handle a couple hundred million ballots coming through. >> reporter: they say theyre up to the job if only given the chance geoff bennett, nbc news, washington. >> for eve...

I know that here in pennsylvania, not only are we going to do what we have to do to make sure the mail is delivered on time, with this morning i was in contact with our attorney general, josh shapiro, they will be filing lawsuits, make sure the mail gets delivered on time. >> and, again, thats in pennsylvania. you talk about, i know youve been writing about this too, congress should bail out the post office, no conditions, just like congress and lawmakers have done with big corporations in the p...

>> geoff bennett, youre knee deep in the postal service story now. i guess the question is, number one, is the post master general going to show up for congressional hearings, and number two, weve heard over the weekend that certain things are now at least temporary halt is being put to, supposedly dismantling sorting machines, removi removing the blue bins. what have you learned over the weekend? >> yeah, as a result of push back from the american people as relates to removal of blue post offic...

This is postmaster general dejoy doing this. this is completely wrong. the guardrails are off and our democracy right now. and this sort of behavior is happening. >> and that from "the new york times." you dont buy the counterargument, the postal service moves around the big blue post office box all the time, this is not unusual, that doesnt hold water with you? >> this is another example of the trump strategy of delay, delay, delay, to hopefully they will lose our attention span on this. this i...

Election, and hes using the postal service as his cudgel. what the postal worker yz have talked to and the union workers i have talked to so far say, what they view dejoy as doing is trying to privatize the postal service. republicans. conservatives, have been trying to do this, they say, for generations. and that the steps he is taking in slowing down delivery times has a way of reducing confidence. public confidence in the postal service, so that when either dejoy or the president tries to tak...

President clinton and under president bush, i never heard from the white house. i never heard from the white house. we were running a profit. we were running it in an efficient manner, and theres no reason to believe the postal service cant be run in that manner now. clearly, the postal service has lost money as a result of the pandemic, and -- >> its also a different time. you have amazon now and ups and fedex and all these other companies that have gotten involved. >> absolutely. we had, you k...