CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Postal workers in Chicago say the mail is indeed slow and will get slower unless the Trump Administration is stopped from gutting the U.S. Postal Service.
Postal workers and their allies, including elected officials, spoke Friday in front of the Bronzeville Post Office. They urged people not to vote for Trump and more immediately, tell Congress to restore cuts to the postal service.
June Harris, the local president for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, said the community needs to step up to help the postal workers.
"Get to your senators and your legislators, people, and let them know to support every law — everything that’s up there — that’s going to be advantageous to postal workers," Harris said. “They are heroes. They are essential workers, and we need your support.”
President Trump’s postmaster general has told Congress that the post office is “fully capable” of getting ballots back in time to be counted in the November election. Louis DeJoy has said he is reorganizing the money-losing postal service to be more efficient.