The USPS website has a wide range of products available for sale, including: Sweatshirts, T-shirts, children’s costumes, dog costumes, bags, stamps and toy cars.
The website has a “flash sale” by the end of Sunday with an offer of 50% discount on selected retail items. And many of the products are already sold out. The Express Post T-shirt, USPS backpack, blue hoodie sweatshirt and Earth Day coasters are all marked as “terminated” on the website.
Below The administration of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, the USPS has delayed delivery, removed high-speed mail sorters from the commission and issued a stern warning to election officials that post-in ballots will no longer be automatically moved as priority mail. The postal service has also begun reducing the working hours of post offices in several states, cutting overtime for postal workers and removing some of their iconic blue collection boxes.
The stakes are high in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election – more people are expected to vote by post at polling stations because of the risk of coronavirus, and some states have amended voting laws to make it easier. Although the USPS has repeatedly tried to reassure voters that it can process the influx of mail-in ballots, it has sent warnings to almost every state that delays in delivery could cause ballots to appear late and not be counted.
Democrats are now raising the demands that DeJoy withhold his changes as the USPS prepares for a flood of post-in ballot papers.
Comedian Billy Eichner tweeted his support for the USPS, saying, “Nothing says summer like ordering stamps while crying.”
Lisa Kovitz, a director at Edelman in New York City, often buys stamps and she recently purchased a T-shirt from the USPS website. “While my purchase is small, I wanted to help,” she told CNN Business. Kovitz also notes that she often buys from eBay sellers who rely primarily on the post office.
The American Postal Workers Union continues to share its support for USPS on Twitter. On Sunday, the union tweeted, “The postal service handles 3 billion jobs a week before Christmas. An election will not be a problem – as long as DeJoy postal workers can do our job!”
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