Carl Hiaasen: Neither snow nor rain will keep mail from being delivered. But then there’s Trump ...
(Rejected first draft of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s opening statement to the Senate committee probing the severe slowdown of mail service in advance of the November election.)
Honorable senators, first let me thank you for inviting me here to explain all the cutbacks, cancellations of overtime and removal of high-speed mail-sorting machines that I have thriftily initiated since taking charge of the U.S. Postal Service three months ago.
These are merely cost-saving measures that have nothing do
