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The US Postal Service has given conflicting reasons why mailboxes are being removed from Portland, as a vicious partisan tug-of-war over mail-in voting comes to a head, with President Trump vowing to block funding to the agency.
After several images of USPS trucks being loaded up with street-side mailboxes in Portland and nearby Eugene went viral, Postal Service spokesman David Rupert told local media his agency was merely replacing old, vandalized post boxes with "newer, more secure models."
Insisting "every location that had a collection box will keep a collection box," Rupert consoled nervous locals that the only boxes vanishing for good were those redundant receptacles positioned next to other boxes.
Comment: With all the money being spent during the lockdown, which has seen millions in Canada alone out of work and forced to stay at home, it was inevitable that social programs of all kinds would eventually be cut and that rates of child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, murder, anxiety, depression and suicide rates would all skyrocket as a result. And this might only be the beginning. See also: