Biden Endorsed By Postal Workers Union Amid Upheaval At USPS

The NALC, which represents nearly 300,000 postal workers, called Biden “a fierce ally and defender of the United States Postal Service,” and said Biden and Harris had the experience and thoughtfulness to “ensure letter carriers and working families are put first.”

The endorsement is in part a reaction to Trump’s and Republican’s refusal to fund the USPS “while postal employees are on the front lines providing essential services to the public every day.”

Trump, who has spent much of the year deriding the Postal Service, and who despite a lack of evidence, has said that widespread mail-in voting would lead to rampant voter fraud, admitted Thursday he’s holding up the coronavirus stimulus bill over Democratic demands for USPS funding that would help the Postal Service process the millions of expected mail in ballots in the November election.

DeJoy admitted to their being “unintended consequences” to the Postal Service’s new policies, which include no overtime pay and cuts to transportation costs, but has stuck by his plan to transform the USPS despite outcries from postal workers.

The Postal Service issued letters to 46 states and Washington D.C. warning their election deadlines could result in ballots being delivered too late to be counted, heightening concerns about how the USPS will handle the November election.