Pennsylvania judge temporarily blocks USPS changes
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
A federal judge in Pennsylvania granted a request on Monday to temporarily block additional operational changes to the U.S. Postal Service, citing that “irreparable harm will result” unless the agency’s ability to operate is assured. Gerald McHugh, judge of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the agency that eliminated extra transportation and overtime, as well removed mail processing equipment, have slowed mail delivery, which poses a specific threat to states' abilities to conduct a fair election.
The Postal Service’s “ability to fulfill its mission during a presidential election taking place in the midst of a public health crisis is vital,” McHugh wrote in his 62-page remarks following last Thursday’s three-hour hearing at Philadelphia’s federal courthouse. “The record in this case strongly supports the conclusion that irreparable harm will result unless its ability to operate is assured.”
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro led this lawsuit, which named DeJoy and Robert Duncan, chairman of the USPS board of governors, and was joined by Delaware, California, Washington D.C., Maine, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Attorneys General from more than 20 states have sued DeJoy over the changes.
The order marks the fourth such federal court ruling this month. On Sept. 17, a Washington federal judge was the first to grant the injunction. Shortly after, on Sept. 21, a New York federal judge ruled the same. Both said that DeJoy’s changes to the agency were endangering election mail.
Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-usps-postal-service-philadelphia-josh-shapiro-20200928.html
Now on the 4th court order, although much of the damage has already been done.
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The US Postal Service can't get more machines in place before the election.
An invoice for all the damages needs to be sent to Louis DeJoy. However that won't get us through this crisis prior to the election.
with anecdotal reports where there was equipment that had not been dismantled but that had been shoved to the side and/or unplugged and not yet surplussed or destroyed.
In fact a couple weeks after the story originally broke, some facilities apparently said f-it and plugged their machines back in. For example this -
Washington Postal Workers Defy USPS Orders And Reinstall Mail Sorting Machines
August 22, 2020
Postal workers in Washington State have reinstalled high-speed mail sorting machines—dismantled after controversial orders from the U.S. Postal Service— despite USPS orders not to put machines back in use.
40 percent of the high-speed mail sorting machines in the Seattle-Tacoma area were disconnected or dismantled since the changes went into effect, according to NPR, with workers in the Tacoma, Washington sorting plant saying eight of their 18 machines that sort and postmark letters were disconnected and pushed into a corner.
Sorting machines in Wenatchee, Washington were also reconnected, against the orders of the Postal Service’s head of maintenance, Kevin Couch.
Only two facilities, Seattle-Tacoma and one in Dallas, seem to be ignoring the Postal Service’s directive to leave decommissioned sorting machines out of use.
https://www.postaltimes.com/postalnews/washington-postal-workers-defy-usps-orders-and-reinstall-mail-sorting-machines/
I wouldn't be surprised if others did the same (if/when possible) but it didn't make the news (they were keeping it "hush hush" ).
and here in Philly, I don't even have a polling place identified yet (I keep checking daily). 
I am waiting for my mail-in ballot. The counties in the state had to delay sending them out until the various court cases were settled, including thankfully kicking the Green Party off the ballot. Now that those are done, they have the go-ahead to start printing them and mailing out and preparing them for the in-person voting on November 3rd.
I had no problems with the mail-in voting process during the primary that we had here in June (delayed due to COVID-19 from the original April 28th date). And they will also have more drop-boxes for those mail-ins for those who do not want to actually send them through the mail.
"VOTE EARLY IN PERSON"
And that is not happening here in PA as you know, in a literal sense. 
It was something I had been bugging my State Senator about for several years during telephone Town Halls, which actually had me shocked when the state legislature suddenly moved on some type of voter reform by going even further with the "no excuse absentee ballot".
There is a large contingent on DU who is basically anti vote-by-mail "because USPS". I think most if not all states that do offer that option also offer drop boxes and other ways to drop off a mail-in ballot without it actually going through the mail. If anything, it would be cheaper for those locales that have "postage paid" envelopes as I understand that they don't get charged for the postage if it doesn't actually go through the mail system.
and over the years, we have been there done that with the "do more with less" and then the "do more with nothing", and finally the "do more with x% cuts". 
Was able to get out just in time, literally a few weeks after the inauguration - 6 Presidents and all their whims.
And speaking of that... if someone doesn't pass a CR in the next couple days, then
All those Schedule Cs trying "reinvent the wheel" using the latest "business model". It literally was the mindset beautifully described by Weird Al, that was then force-fed into a government environment.
