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Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:38 PM Sep 2020

Postal police union sues DeJoy for limiting mail theft enforcement authority

The Postal Service last month abruptly ordered its police officers to stop investigating mail theft that occurs away from post office property, the Postal Police Officers Association alleged Monday, suing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to block a change they say could erode the safety of mail carriers and delivery.

Per the union, USPS implemented the change on Aug. 25, a day after DeJoy testified to Congress amid mounting concerns that policy changes he implemented were delaying mail service and could jeopardize record numbers of mail-in ballots expected in the presidential election.

The union argues that this unilateral change by USPS managers violates the collective bargaining agreement with the Postal Police Officers Association. The union is asking a judge to block the policy change pending arbitration and to declare that USPS leaders acted outside of their statutory authority.


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/postal-service-police-union-sues-dejoy-414537

I can't believe it. A police union that's actually trying to do something positive. I didn't even know that Postal Police Officers were a thing.
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Postal police union sues DeJoy for limiting mail theft enforcement authority (Original Post) Crunchy Frog Sep 2020 OP
Putin and the GOP are physically attacking us Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #1
Uhhh....me either... Trueblue Texan Sep 2020 #2
It's from Politico. Link is in the OP. Crunchy Frog Sep 2020 #3
the Postal Police are a branch dweller Sep 2020 #5
Speaking of mail theft, has anyone read an update on the case last week Tanuki Sep 2020 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. Putin and the GOP are physically attacking us
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:46 PM
Sep 2020

Putin and the GOP are physically attacking us

I hope the fuck people wake up

Trueblue Texan

(2,372 posts)
2. Uhhh....me either...
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:49 PM
Sep 2020

I know about the Postal Inspection Service, the oldest law enforcement agency in the nation, but never heard of the postal police...what is th source of this story?

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
4. Speaking of mail theft, has anyone read an update on the case last week
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 10:58 PM
Sep 2020

in Glendale, CA, where someone driving a rental truck dumped bags of mail in two separate locations?.

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