Dallas tried to put them back online

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/usps-reconnect-sorting-machines/index.html

Yared Wonde, the president of the American Postal Workers Union's Dallas Area Local, told CNN that management at the Dallas processing and distribution center, which serves nearly all of Dallas, unsuccessfully tried to put back four delivery bar code sorter machines.

DBCS machines make up the bulk of the mail sorting operation across USPS, handling envelopes which includes ballots heading to voters.

The machines, which Wonde says were removed in July, cannot be put back into service because they are missing pieces.

(emphasis mine)

No clue if the pieces deliberately went missing or it that is just a consequence of taking something that large apart in order to move it.

Also, while they stopped dismantling, the existing damage will remain:

While Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may be suspending changes to postal service operations, it doesn't necessarily mean machines that had been removed will be put back in use, according to an email obtained by CNN.

The email, sent hours after DeJoy's public suspension of changes on Tuesday, instructs postal workers not to reconnect any mail sorting machines that have previously been disconnected.

"Please message out to your respective Maintenance Managers tonight," wrote Kevin Couch, a director of maintenance operations. "They are not to reconnect/reinstall machines that have been previously disconnected without approval from HQ Maintenance, no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager."

Easy to take apart and really difficult to set up. Try to imagine the plant manager who actually wants to do the job and the maintenance department crippled him. Then he tells the maintenance department to put things back together. The maintenance department's main headquarters at Washington says you are not allowed to put anything back together.

So they decide to do it anyway because they want to do their goddamn jobs and move the mail. The plant manager said to put it back. We'll try to put it back. Yay.

All it takes is one MAGA hat wearing idiot in the maintenance department to hide a few pieces and nothing will work. A few pieces out of hundreds that they were supposed to track for the machines they yanked. Then they have to contact headquarters for part replacements and headquarters will not send anything. Game over.

Post #435,846 by scoenye 8/21/20 7:45:57 AM 8/21/20 7:45:57 AM Reply	Dallas tried to put them back online - and failed https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/usps-reconnect-sorting-machines/index.html Yared Wonde, the president of the American Postal Workers Union's Dallas Area Local, told CNN that management at the Dallas processing and distribution center, which serves nearly all of Dallas, unsuccessfully tried to put back four delivery bar code sorter machines. DBCS machines make up the bulk of the mail sorting operation across USPS, handling envelopes which includes ballots heading to voters. The machines, which Wonde says were removed in July, cannot be put back into service because they are missing pieces. (emphasis mine) No clue if the pieces deliberately went missing or it that is just a consequence of taking something that large apart in order to move it. Also, while they stopped dismantling, the existing damage will remain: While Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may be suspending changes to postal service operations, it doesn't necessarily mean machines that had been removed will be put back in use, according to an email obtained by CNN. The email, sent hours after DeJoy's public suspension of changes on Tuesday, instructs postal workers not to reconnect any mail sorting machines that have previously been disconnected. "Please message out to your respective Maintenance Managers tonight," wrote Kevin Couch, a director of maintenance operations. "They are not to reconnect/reinstall machines that have been previously disconnected without approval from HQ Maintenance, no matter what direction they are getting from their plant manager."
Post #435,848 by drook 8/21/20 8:10:47 AM 8/21/20 8:10:47 AM Reply	Oopsie! -- Drew
Post #435,849 by crazy 8/21/20 9:09:52 AM 8/21/20 9:09:52 AM Reply	As I said Easy to take apart and really difficult to set up. Try to imagine the plant manager who actually wants to do the job and the maintenance department crippled him. Then he tells the maintenance department to put things back together. The maintenance department's main headquarters at Washington says you are not allowed to put anything back together. So they decide to do it anyway because they want to do their goddamn jobs and move the mail. The plant manager said to put it back. We'll try to put it back. Yay. All it takes is one MAGA hat wearing idiot in the maintenance department to hide a few pieces and nothing will work. A few pieces out of hundreds that they were supposed to track for the machines they yanked. Then they have to contact headquarters for part replacements and headquarters will not send anything. Game over.
Post #435,879 by Ashton 8/21/20 6:11:01 PM 8/21/20 6:11:01 PM Reply	Just heard: House gets a whack at D'Joy next week (gloves off, one hopes)

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