USPS vows it won’t change equipment, overtime until after 2020 election

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on Tuesday pledged not to make any changes to equipment or overtime at the US Postal Service until after the election.

DeJoy is poised to testify Friday before a Senate committee and on Monday before a House committee about cutbacks to services and machinery ahead of an anticipated deluge of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“The Postal Service is ready today to handle whatever volume of election mail it receives this fall,” DeJoy said in a statement.