If you are confident in the u. S. Postal service, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are not confident in the Postal Service, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. And we are going to open special lines this morning. Postal workers, we want to know what you are seeing and what people are saying to you. We want to know what is going on in your post office. Postal workers, your line is 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always wet us at 202 7488003 and are always reading on social anda, at cspanwj facebook. Com cspan. Dejoyster general louis has been on capitol hill all week long, talking to senators about the u. S. Postal service. Lets start by reading a little bit from the wall street journal;s story on the congressional hearing s storyon journal on the congressional hearing. Louis dejoy said the post office could handle mailin ballots this fall, amid concerns from democrats particularly that his actions will interfere with the election. Dejoy has been at the center of efforts to curtail costs and appeared friday before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental AffairsSecurity Committee controlled by republicans. Senator rob portman, who says he votes every year by mailin ballot, asked if he supported mailing voting. I think the American Public should be able to vote by mail, mr. Dejoy said. We will invoke processes and procedures that promote election mail, and some classes ahead of first class mail. Dejoy testified he never spoke to President Trump on the Postal Service, other than receiving congratulations as postmaster general. In opening remarks, he urged congress to provide the Postal Service with Financial Relief to account for the impact of the covid19 pandemic on their financial condition. The actions have been discussed and debated for years, but no action has been taken, he said, referring to the agency operations, while adding the Postal Service must do its part to adapt to the reality of our marketplace. Logistic a former representative, has fought which postal representatives have blamed for deliveries that are delayed. Complaints have spilled over to concerns on the election, and which mailin voting is expected to hit Historic Heights because of the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats said mr. Dejoy was slow to respond to inquiries and they said harmed businesses and individuals. They say his actions are financially responsible and he is pressed to address delays and to make other commitments not to this service. Do you have confidence in your Postal Service . Lets go to the phone lines and talk to rodney, calling from texas. Rodney is not confident in the post office. Yes, i had confidence in the post office until trump put dejoy in there, and i get my medicine through the mail, and now it is coming late. How i determined that is because he started to take out mail orders, and trump knows that the democrats vote him out and more people will vote through the mail and vote him out, and they e to put dejoy in ther slow the vote so votes will not get counted. Host a lot of the republicans pointed out in the hearing yesterday that the post office has had trouble for a long time, not just recently. When did you notice your medicine started coming in slowly, this year before this year . Caller this year. They would tell them when it was shipped on the internet, and they would tell me i would get it. Before, i would get it two days to three days before it would get here it was supposed to get here. Last time, it said it was supposed to be there friday, and i did not get it until tuesday and it came first class through the mail in california. Host are you noticing it anything are you noticing it with anything else besides your medicine and how often to use the post office . Caller i pay my bills and i used to be able to mail it in two days to three days before it was due, and it has been late one or two days. The mail is definitely slowing also,n texas, and sometimes i get my neighbors mail. And in a rural route, sometimes get their mail put in my mailbox, so that tells me they are in a hurry and they are just putting it in the mailbox, so i will put their mail back in the mailbox. There has definitely been cutbacks and i think it is all coming from dejoy and a third party telling him from trump telling the thirdparty how to slow it down. He is trying to cheat to win the election. Host lets go to dori, calling from spokane, washington. Dori is confident in the post office. Good morning. Caller good morning. News ofs my daily. Verything about the post office, whatever it takes to keep the post office totally funded and totally working and it has to remain that way. There is no reason why they so pushed and we are onto the internet, but what happens on the internet goes . I think the post office should be made so even if the internet goes, we still have the communication of the post office are all sorts of reasons, not just this country but the entire world. Host dori, how often do you use the post office . One of the things we heard in the Senate Hearing this week is that the number of actual pieces of mail delivered by the post office is going down. Do you still using it on a weekly basis . Caller every day. My post office box mail forwarded to my house, and and theth the po box mail carrier, and the entire world would just crumble if something happened to the post office. They should be totally funded. Whatever it takes. And whatever it takes to do it. I dont care who has the office. It has remain absolutely perfect. Postmaster general louis dejoy appeared before a Senate Committee and he was asked by voteor rob portman about by mail and handling of mailin ballots pretty resort he had to say. [video clip] on this panel, i want to make sure we have an election that is wellrun, where people have their votes counted and many are going to use the post office. Mr. Dejoy, do you support absentee voting and voting by mail generally . I voted by mail for a number of years. The Postal Service will deliver every ballot and process every ballot in time. I appreciate that. So you do support voting by mail. I think the American Public should be able to vote by mail and the Postal Service will supported. I guess that is yes. To richard,talk calling from iron mountain, michigan. Richard works for the post office. Good morning. Caller good morning, thanks for having me. Host what are you seeing in your local post office where you work . Caller i am in my 41st and final year of working for the post office. Yes, the letter volume is down. Our flat volume, which are magazines and newspapers, are down. Our parcel volume is way up. The falsecern is information that is being put out by our president. He is making it sound like mailin voting is just a blanket how do i put it . A blanket mailing of ballots to houses, which is completely untrue. We deliver to the people we know. We know the people that live on our routes. We do not deliver to dogs or children. So there is a falsehood. The postmaster general yesterday say taking out the mail sorting equipment will not slow things down. If it is not sorted by mail machine, and has to be done by hand. I am very concerned about mailin voting. Host richard, we heard a lot also about staffing on the Postal Service. Where you worked, do you now see more workers or fewer workers to handle the mail that comes through . Caller in the carrier side of things, where i work, we do not see the clerks very often. You have enough clerks to sort the mail that we get in our small facility. We have a male sorting facility and our sister city, but i never see how many people they have there. We have no trouble getting our mail here, but i dont know how much it is piling up in our sister city, kingsford, which is two miles away. Host are you getting different reaction from people that you encounter when you are out on your route . The Postal Service has been the topic of news for the last week or so. What are you hearing from the people you run into when you are on your route . Caller most of the people are appalled by what is going on. They are so supportive of the carriers, especially, because they know that we are the last line. We seethe last people that deliver their essential goods. Say, 99 ,em i would are in favor of keeping the Postal Service vital. Think hard, do you is there enough mail to continue monday through friday delivery and in some places still saturday . Is there enough mail to continue that from your point of view . Caller absolutely. Six day delivery is essential and or delivery is essential. That is another point i would like to bring up. If this Postal Service is privatized, which is the ultimate goal, it would mean fewer delivery dates for the deathnd that is now. People there will not be door delivery anymore. They want to put cluster boxes on street corners, and people of all ages, including the elderly, will be walking two blocks to three blocks to get their mail. The result of that would be fewer routes because carriers will have to make fewer stops. So there are a lot of things that are not being said about what would happen if the Postal Service is privatized. Host richard, you said you had been at the Postal Service for decades. You know about the big deficit that the post office is running. Every time there is a hearing, people talk about how much money the post office is losing. How do you turn that around . Caller i would start saying this all started in 2006 with the stroke of a pen concerning the prefunded health care to the tune of over 5 billion that the post office has had to contribute, and no other company has ever had to do that before. This is prefunded health care for people who are not even born yet, which makes no sense to me. I would like to know where that money is that has been taken out of the Postal Service. Host lets go to tony, calling from bradenton, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Good morning, sir. Host good morning morning, go ahead, tony. Caller i do believe in the post office. We have it in the civil war. There is problem with the post like theye problem is said that sampson everything is going to be expensive. Who is going to get said that stamps and everything is going to be expensive and who is going to get richer . Theine they could raise stamps for only god knows. , i mean, het, dejoy needs to be removed and prosecuted because that is what trump is doing. Democracyroying the institutions, and this is a perfectly good example. That is the whole point. He needs to be removed. The republicans do not put it in the care act because 25 million was going to go to the post office. Everybody knows trump is trying to cheat. He is a cheater. That is the only way they win by cheating and Voter Suppression and gerrymandering. You name it. These people have no shame. Host lets go to dahlia, calling from miami, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. What i want to say about the post office is i have had several bad experiences, and it has not been lately but going on for years. Have seen my post person come in, drop a box in front of our door. My husband and i looked at ourselves and said, did you order . He opened the door and it is not even our name or address. He went after her and she says, oh, i thought it was for you. That is ridiculous. Last year for christmas, i ordered dolls for my granddaughter, and i go to the computer because i expected it when it was to be delivered, and i see it has already been delivered. It was not here. I paid over 100 for that doll. Icalled them up and said, if had known you were going to send this to the United States post office, i would not have ordered that doll. I clicked in a claim. They went to the post office, and that night, and 9 00 at night, i see the box and here outside my door. They never knocked. It was not a neighbor. So i dont know who it was. I have had mail that has never gotten there. I went to the post office one e to mail but education back medication sentiment has been that we did not need, and i sent another letter at the same time. I went to the post Office Inside and put it in there. It took over two weeks for both of them to get there. Th under thisot on mans command. That was a long time ago. Host lets talk to tom, calling from bethlehem, pennsylvania. Tom works for the post office. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller i do not work for the post office. I worked for the post office. Host you are retired or moved on to another job . Caller i retired from the federal service. Host what do you think about what the post office and how it is working now . Caller what do you think about how the post office is working now . Host that is my question to you, tom. Caller that is also my question to you, sir. Mcaseelah,s go to from florida. Pronounce your name for me, please. Caller masakeelah. What money is saved by removing sorting machines . Well the Postal Service get a refund of the purchase or save on electricity . The Postal Service is a public ,ood, just like the military public schools, police stations, fire departments, roads, etc. None of the a for mentioned profit driven none of the a aformentioned are profit driven. Host lets go to kathleen. Caller first of all, i would like to express that the lady that was recently on, how she had so many problems with the post office in the past, i am sorry about that, but i just wanted to stress that from my experience, the Postal Service has been absolutely supportive. It has solved many of my problems over the years and recently. First of all, i am a senior citizen. I am a proud american. I rely totally on the u. S. Postal Service Every month for my Social Security. I have no savings. I rent only. , myly on my medical medications that come from the mail routinely every month, and if they dont, i am in trouble. I live on the edge. I am used to that, by the way, but that is ok. Just extremely serious what is happening in america right now, and i agree with the postal worker richard that the Postal Service cannot be privatized. And the big sorting machines, that were removed, there were quite a lot of them it sounded like, and they do hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail. They need to be put back ether or whatever to get things need to be returned from where they were in the recent past. President i do not want to say any names but this is an absolute, horrendous thing that is happening to our country , and it is only this country. They talking probably doesnt like the national mail, course. So i am. Month,want to say every and i am sure there are other millions of people, not just seniors, but other people. Disabilities,ith all ages, of course, they are going to be horribly affected. The element of routine is crucial, and i feel that the most Important Institution in this country is our United States postal system. Host lets go to willis, calling from clarksburg, west virginia. Willis is not confident in the post office. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I am kind of not confident in i hadg my mail because one Life Insurance statement that i never got, and i had to call them to say my insurance statement collapsed and i had to put that Monthly Payment on my credit card because i did not receive a statement. And here in west virginia, i understand it. We have five states that are serviced out of charleston, west virginia. Get thee before we money, wevice anymore should think about who could we put in their that could be responsible for making sure that the money is used correctly instead of maybe wasted . Upelieve it is all a set removing these machines to slow the mail so we cannot have the election so that they can blame it on the mail. T is not the letter carriers before it gets to them, i dont have a problem with them. It is just a mail marketing delivered. Again, postmaster general louis dejoy was in front of a Senate Committee on friday. While he was there, he talked a little bit about the removal of the public blue postal boxes. Here is what he said. [video clip] today, there are about 140,000 collection boxes in the United States. Over the last 10 years, it averaged about 3500, so 35,000 of them have been removed. It is a data driven method. I have not reviewed it, it every year they look at the utilization of postal boxes and where they place new boxes and red communities grow. , since myr 10 years arrival, we removed 700 collection boxes, of which i had. O idea that that was a process when i found out about it, we what the excitement it was creating, so i decided to stop it. We will pick it up after the election, but this is a normal process that has been around since you know, 50 years. The last 10 years, we have pulled back about 35,000. Host lets see what some of our social media followers are saying about the post office this morning. Here is one text that came in and said, i just received a firstclass envelope in mountain view, california, from san jose 10 miles away. It took 14 days. Even if Congress Allocates more money to the Postal Service, there will be no assurance President Trump and his cohorts will not still slow or halt the mail in october to steal the election. That says thet post office is overwhelmed with a volume o post of mail and packages prayed they need to separate the mail from the packages and put disorders back. Another text says, i am confident in the post office. It is a delivery mechanism for the empty ballots and return ballots. The problem resides in the voter rolls. If ballots are sent