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American Institute on Economic Research, August 18, 2020<\/h3>\n

Mail Slowdowns Started 50 Years Before Trump<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

Democrats and much of the media are screaming bloody murder over President Trump\u2019s latest Postal Service reforms. Trump recently approved an extra $10 billion in federal credit for the floundering mail service. But because he is balking at $25 billion in additional funding, he is guilty of \u201cthe weaponization of the U.S. Postal Service<\/a> for the president\u2019s electoral purposes,\u201d according to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Former President Barack Obama accused Trump of \u201cundermining the Postal Service<\/a>\u201d to attack voting rights.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service is hemorrhaging red ink and Trump\u2019s appointee as Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, recently curtailed paying overtime for mail delivery. This is slowing some deliveries which some news reports are portraying as an unprecedented outrage. A Washington Post<\/em> article condemned the Trump administration for seeking \u201cto disrupt a constitutionally mandated<\/a> government service during the coronavirus pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, the Postal Service has been intentionally disrupting its own service since at least the Nixon era. At a high-level meeting in 1969, postal management decided \u201cto no longer strive for overnight mail delivery and to keep this a secret from Congress<\/a> and the public,\u201d the Washington Post<\/em> reported in 1974. Management also considered cutting costs by educating Americans not to expect prompt service<\/a>, according to the Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Back in 1764, colonial Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin proclaimed<\/a> a goal of two-day mail delivery between New York and Philadelphia. In 1989, the Postal Service ratcheted down its goals, labeling as a success two-day delivery from New York City to nextdoor Westchester County, N.Y. Under the new standards, the target for overnight first-class delivery was reduced from a 100-to-150-mile radius to often less than 50 miles. The Postal Service estimated that the changes could add 10% to the average delivery time for first-class mail, which was already 22% slower than it had been in 1969. Postmaster General Anthony Frank claimed that the revised standards would \u201cimprove our ability to deliver local mail on time.\u201d But this was simply because the Postal Service lowered the definition of \u201con time.\u201d The Postal Inspection Service concluded that post offices \u201cgenerally have a negative attitude toward service improvement, even when the capability is there at no additional cost.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1993, the Postal Service created a task force to examine how it could profit by further reducing standards, shifting far more overnight mail into two-day delivery. That resulted in a trial mail slowdown in Florida with the Orwellian name, \u201cDelivery First.\u201d<\/a> That moniker didn\u2019t mean delivering the mail would become the highest priority, but that postal carriers\u2019 daily schedule was reversed. Carriers hit the streets first and sorted mail afterwards, adding at least a day to delivery times.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 2000, the Postal Service quietly slashed delivery targets in much of the nation for first-class mail going beyond local areas. A 2006 Postal Regulatory Commission report found that the Postal Service scorned federal law requiring the \u201chighest consideration\u201d to speedy mail delivery. Instead, \u201cadministrative convenience resulted in<\/a> mapping coverage of the two-day standard exclusively in terms of surface transportation.\u201d The commission found that \u201cpostal patrons in several Western states, including California, experienced far more service downgrades than those in other parts of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2015, the Postal Service effectively eliminated overnight mail delivery even for local mail in much of the nation. With revised standards, \u201cmail was considered on time if it took four to five days to arrive instead of three<\/a>,\u201d the Washington Post<\/em> noted. Fifty-one senators and 160 House members ineffectively protested the slowdown. Roanoke, Virginia residents were skewered because local mail processing was shifted to Greensboro, North Carolina, doubling the time necessary for crosstown mail delivery.<\/p>\n

Postal management claimed that its 2015 planned mail slowdown would save almost a billion dollars but the agency realized barely 10% of the expected savings. Congress moaned, groaned, and shrugged \u2013 and permitted the Postal Service to continue borrowing federal funds to cover its $50+ billion in losses in prior years.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service has gotten away with scorning its customers because it is effectively a federal crime to provide better mail service than the government. The Postal Service has a monopoly over letter delivery<\/a> (with a limited exemption for urgent, courier-delivered letters costing more than $3). The monopoly, which dates back to the 1840s, has become more indefensible with each passing decade. After a half-century of service cutbacks, why continue nationalizing the transport of small envelopes? Ending the postal monopoly could spur the same explosion in options for letter delivery that Uber and Lyft have created for transit.<\/p>\n

But the monopoly will not be the decisive issue in the coming debacles. Even if Trump approved $100 billion for the Postal Service, the deluge of mailed ballots in November will be perhaps the greatest election fiasco in American history.<\/p>\n

In New York City, officials struggled for six weeks to count mail-in ballots from the June primary. Up to 20% of ballots \u201cwere declared invalid before<\/a> even being opened, based on mistakes with their exterior envelopes,\u201d the Washington Post<\/em> noted, thanks largely to missing postmarks or signatures. The New York City Board of Elections provided voters with more than 750,000 ballots with prepaid return envelopes, but the Postal Service routinely doesn\u2019t postmark prepaid envelopes, resulting in a huge number of disqualified ballots. The New York Daily News<\/em> labeled the primary snafus as a \u201cdumpster fire<\/a>\u201d while a New York Times <\/em>headline described it as \u201cthe November nightmare<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other states also had mail-in train wrecks. In Wisconsin, more than 20,000 \u201cprimary ballots were thrown out<\/a> because voters missed at least one line on the form, rendering them invalid.\u201d In Virginia, almost 6% of mail-in ballots<\/a> for primary elections were rejected for arriving late. In Nevada, almost a quarter million ballots<\/a> sent to voters were returned as undeliverable.<\/p>\n

State election systems will be overwhelmed this year by a ten- or twenty-fold increase in the number of ballots cast by mail. Democratic activists are calling for changes to state laws to permit the counting of ballots that arrive after Election Day and for abolishing standards to assure the integrity of the individual ballot. Such changes are practically guaranteed to produce far more confusion, delays, and distrust for election results.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe post office has been run poorly for many, many decades,\u201d Trump declared last week. In a less histrionic era, the Postal Service\u2019s failures could spur Congress to finally remove the roadblocks to private innovation in letter delivery. Instead, the coming delivery debacles may become the conspiratorial RussiaGate of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n
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James Bovard is the author of ten books, including Public Policy Hooligan, Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal, and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader\u2019s Digest, and many other publications. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors, a frequent contributor to The Hill, and a contributing editor for American Conservative<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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