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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 universal mail-in photoing, falsely claiming it's ripe for fraud and saying he wants to block funding to p...

Employees as they're 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 points from the appalachian district. so you can see here how this document from u.s. ps was metab...

There's 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 donald trump doesn't believe in expertise, doesn't believe in science, doesn't believe in following ...

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 who normally had to wait three or four days typically for medication to come through the mail from t...

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 they're up to the job if only given the chance geoff bennett, nbc news, washington. >> for everything you need to know about voting in your state check out our interactive guide called plan you...