Our company pays many of its bills by mail. We have had numerous situations in the past few weeks where checks worth thousands of dollars simply do not arrive for weeks. Ensuing replacement checks via FedEx, or wire transfers, and the associated stop-payment fees for the “lost” checks cost money and significant staff time every time.

It is obvious that the postal service is slowing down.

Here is another example. On Monday, August 10, I mailed a painting to Australia via Priority Mail. Here is the tracking information after more than a week. I blocked out the tracking number itself for privacy.

As you can see, I mailed the package on August 10, and then it sat in San Diego from August 10 until August 19, when it arrived in Los Angeles. That’s two hours by car from San Diego. What did it do for 9 days in San Diego? It’s now the 21st. Where is it now?

The Postmaster General and the Federal Government claim that the changes they are making in the postal service are to make it more efficient and cut costs. To cut costs, they are removing hundreds of high-speed sorting machines.

I may be no cost cutting expert, but dismantling and removing automation equipment DOES NOT CUT COSTS. It does make processes more inefficient, and it slows down the product.

It makes absolutely no sense to remove mail sorting machines if your objective is to streamline the postal service. That is flat out stupid – or heinous, you pick.

Howver, if your objective is to clog up the mail, removing machines is perfect.

The checks my company is sending to vendors are not getting to them on time anymore. Since I can’t be the only one this is happening to, I have to conclude that people aren’t getting their social security checks on time, medications are stuck in the works, and of course, ballots will be.

I do not understand how the leader of a country can in good conscience sabotage a critical service like the county’s mail system and get away with it. I do not understand how the people of this country are allowing this to happen. I said it before in another post: Are the going to tear up our freeways and our airports next?

Here is the presidential oath of office:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The postal service is anchored in the Constitution. Sabotaging the postal service is a dereliction of duty. I can’t interpret it any other way.