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mahatmakanejeeves

(64,668 posts)
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 01:19 PM Aug 2020

No biggie, just a "graveyard" of mail-sorting machines outside a postal facility in Michigan

Kevin M. Kruse Retweeted

No biggie, just a "graveyard" of mail-sorting machines outside a postal facility in Michigan, a swing state in which Trump is currently polling very poorly. Just totally normal stuff that happens in a democracy and definitely not anything worth worrying about.


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No biggie, just a "graveyard" of mail-sorting machines outside a postal facility in Michigan (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 OP
Question is why the rush to dismantle prior to influx of ballots and ballot applications? Freethinker65 Aug 2020 #1
That means these machines are gone for good TexasProgresive Aug 2020 #2
What Company Manufactures These Machines?..... global1 Aug 2020 #3
Automated Flat Sorting Machine (AFSM 100): Siemens Dematic(formerly Rapistan) and Northrop Grumman. TexasProgresive Aug 2020 #4
Dana Nessel LessAspin Aug 2020 #5
Visual proof of deliberate sabotage. Share everywhere. N/T IllinoisBirdWatcher Aug 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Tbear Aug 2020 #7
Mail from Lansing gets sent there.. LessAspin Aug 2020 #8

Freethinker65

(11,194 posts)
1. Question is why the rush to dismantle prior to influx of ballots and ballot applications?
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 01:34 PM
Aug 2020

I understand the probable future need to retool USPS facilities to handle less envelope and flat mailings than packages, but everyone knew mail in ballot applications and returned ballots would be much greater than usual this Presidential election year because of the pandemic. Give one good reason this could not have waited until AFTER the election!!!

Timing is everything.

TexasProgresive

(12,497 posts)
2. That means these machines are gone for good
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 01:36 PM
Aug 2020

They will have to be replaced for many billions if not trillions of dollars. This is beyond comprehension.

global1

(26,114 posts)
3. What Company Manufactures These Machines?.....
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 01:42 PM
Aug 2020

Who will benefit from having to make more machines for the replacement of the ones they trashed? Follow the money.

TexasProgresive

(12,497 posts)
4. Automated Flat Sorting Machine (AFSM 100): Siemens Dematic(formerly Rapistan) and Northrop Grumman.
Wed Aug 19, 2020, 01:53 PM
Aug 2020

Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

LessAspin

(1,613 posts)
8. Mail from Lansing gets sent there..
Thu Aug 20, 2020, 12:01 AM
Aug 2020

for processing. Since 2014 when they decided to stop using the Collins Road site in Lansing.

It never made sense that mailing a letter across town in Lansing had to be trucked to Grand Rapids. Not sure how something so inefficient was saving any money.

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