The
USPS website has a variety of merchandise accessible for buy together with: Sweatshirts, T-shirts, youngsters costumes, canine costumes, tote baggage, stamps and toy vans.
The web site is having a “flash sale” by way of the finish of Sunday with a proposal of 50% off of choose retail objects. And plenty of of the merchandise are already bought out. The specific mail T-shirt, USPS backpack, blue hoodie sweatshirt and Earth Day coasters are all labeled as “discontinued” on the web site.
The stakes are excessive in the run-up to the 2021 presidential election — extra folks are anticipated to vote by mail versus in polling locations due to the danger of coronavirus, and some states have adjusted voting laws to make it simpler to accomplish that. Though the USPS has repeatedly tried to reassure voters they will deal with the inflow of mail-in ballots, it has sent warnings to nearly every state that slowdowns in supply may trigger ballots to present up late and not be counted.
Democrats are now growing calls for that DeJoy rescind his adjustments as the USPS begins to put together for a flood of mail-in ballots.
Comic Billy Eichner
tweeted his support for the USPS, saying, “Nothing says summer time like ordering stamps whereas crying.”
Lisa Kovitz, a managing director at Edelman in New York Metropolis, buys stamps typically and she just lately purchased a T-shirt from the USPS web site. “Whereas my buy is small, I wished to assist,” she instructed CNN Enterprise. Kovitz additionally famous that she typically buys from eBay sellers who primarily depend on the put up workplace.
The American Postal Staff Union is continuous to share its help for USPS on Twitter. On Sunday, the union
tweeted, “The Postal Service handles three billion items of mail in the week earlier than Christmas. An election will not be an issue – so long as DeJoy lets postal employees do our job!”
CNN’s Clare Duffy contributed to this report.
