So was the whole "Trump destroyed the Post Office to rig the Election" just a left-wing conspiracy theory?

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@Asuka

Now that it’s all said and done, was the whole “Trump appointed Dejoy to destroy the USPS so mail in voting wouldn’t hinder him” just a massive conspiracy theory? ⁢

Who promoted this alleged “massive conspiracy theory”?

It was literally all over the Dope.

Here’s the closest thing I could find:

Prediction: Postal Service shutdown

Trump and his stooge of a Postmaster General are going to shut down the Postal Service about 2 weeks before the election. People will complain there’s critical (non-election) mail that has to be delivered and it won’t matter. They’ll do it anyway.

@bobot

Also as I recall, the mail actually was being slowed down.

I did find threads discussing this (and the extent to which DeJoy was responsible):

Did DeJoy create the USPS slow down?

I have nothing more than anecdotal evidence that USPS mail delivery is more slow now than prior to Louis DeJoy’s appointment in June 2020…but…is it true that USPS service is degraded, and if so, did Louis DeJoy create the slow down?

Is there a general slowdown in package delivery lately with USPS?

Not to get political or anything, but has anyone noticed a slowdown in delivery of packages at the USPS? I have orders on ebay and Amazon, and almost all of them pass their expected delivery dates and the USPS message is “in transit but arriving late”. I do realize the heavy lifting that the USPS is doing, has been doing, since the whole pandemic exploded and ordering online became the order of the day for many, many US citizens, but things were actually running fairly smoothly until a little wh…