Normally you could assign an innocuous reason for this, but given the other actions the new postmaster has taken, it's pretty clear that (a) this is part of a plan to reduce mail-in voting, and (b) this is part of a plan to force the privatization of mail delivery services.<p>The new postmaster is major Trump donor/supporter and has a large amount of stock in private mail delivery services. Among other things, he has ordered the removal of most mail-sorting machines and begun requiring that work to be done by hand, while at the same time banning overtime necessary to handle the increased manual work required.<p>This week, he also ordered the press office to tell the states that there was no way the USPS could timely deliver ballots within the normal absentee voting periods or guarantee delivery before Nov 7...even though in many states the period for mailing in an absentee ballot is longer than 4 weeks. For point of reference, prior to the new postmaster, the USPS was regularly able to handle volumes of mail far in excess of what the predicted mail-in vote will be for 2020.
[EDIT: link: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/u-s-postal-service-warns-numerous-states-mail-ballots-may-n1236825" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/u-s-postal-se...</a>]