Here is a post from a postal worker, who I will keep anonymous:
As a 34 year worker in the Postal Service, here’s my opinion on what is really going on. I saw someone today who still works where I used to work. He said he has never seen it this bad. Mail is backed up everywhere, but local postal management is under orders from Washington to pull out NEW sorting machines and leave them outside. NO overtime is allowed while the mail continues to pile up.
So what’s going on. Clearly, while this is going to slow delivery of mailed absentee ballots, it’s also generating a lot of negative publicity among the very people who are most likely to be Trump supporters. My conclusion is that while influencing the election may be part of what is going on, the bigger picture is that his administration is making an attempt to destroy the Postal Service before he is voted out of office. Privatizing mail delivery is worth tens of billions and they are colluding to have it accomplished whether he is re-elected or nor. In the process, they’ll try to destroy two on the strongest unions in the country, the American Postal Workers and the National Letter Carriers. My suspicion is that this plan was probably going to be implemented during a second Trump term, but circumstances have moved up the timeline of the planned destruction.