The US Postal Service definitively said it that had the capacity to handle the added volume of mail-in ballots in November's general election after President Trump questioned its ability to do so
"The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume, including any additional volume that may result as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic," the agency said in a statement.
— Donald J. Trump August 3, 2020 Later Monday, Trump again slammed mail-in ballots during a press briefing, saying,"How are you going to do that for an entire nation? They're using Covid to try and get the mail-in ballots." Read More"The Post Office for many, many years has been, you know, run in a fashion that hasn't been great -- great workers and everything, but they have old equipment, very old equipment," Trump added.
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