joining us now, kimberly carol. ms. carol, thanks for your work at the postal service, your work in the union, and thanks for helping alert the country that this was going on. we didn't know, before you said it. >> well, i appreciate that you have taken up the story, and made the public aware of what's happening. so, thank you. >> well, you know, the -- it would be a lot easier for us to report on the sort of major and consequential changes of the post office, if they were announcing that they were doing these things. major policy changes at the post office. particularly, ones that are going to affect when and whether people get their mail. seem like the sort of thing that we would previously have the post office kind of put out for public debate, put them up for public comment. but some of the other things they have done in terms of overtime rules and giving postal workers different directions about how to handle mail and when not to bother to deliver it. this has all just been stuff we've found out from you guys. they

. >> here is how kimberly carol poster worker and president of the iowa's postal union described these changes. >> mail is beginning to pile up in our offices, and we're seeing equipment being removed. so we are beginning to see the impact of those changes. i don't see this as cost-saving measures. i see this as a way to undermine the public confidence in the mail service. it's not saving costs. we're spending more time trying to implement these policy changes. and it's, in our offices, costing more overtime. >> joining us now kimberly karol president of the iowa's post office union. she is currently a postal clerk in waterloo, iowa. thank you for joining us. let me begin with a thanks to you and the postal service. i have been grateful to the people delivering my mail throughout my life. i have known many people who have done it as a career, and i really appreciate that. i want to get your reaction to something that the postmaster general said on friday. he said the postal service has ample capacity to deliver all election mail securely and on time in accordance with our delivery stan

kimberly carols, the head of the positival workers union in iowa, responded to this story saying, quoteu're going to find an answer to why this is happening because we haven't been able to figure it out either. she said, mail is beginning to pile up in our offices. she says she doesn't buy that these measures are being put in place to save money, instead saying, quote, i see this as a way to undermine public confidence in the mail service. we'll have a lot to ask kimberly carroll tomorrow, she'll be joining us on the show as we follow this developing story. watch this space. ng story watch this space ♪ milk, milk, milk ♪ guzzle milk, drink it all ♪ make a milk waterfall ♪ cookie milk, stack it tall ♪ milk with no rhythm at all ♪ make you run fast milk ♪ stay awake in class milk ♪ pour it by the glass milk ♪ is that a mustache milk ♪ boom boom boom bass milk ♪ smile on your face milk ♪ go for the gold, before you know ♪ ♪ you going all the way milk ♪ milky hi, milky hey ♪ i hope you have a milky day ♪ live your best life milk. ♪ you out this world, milky way ♪ ♪ put you on the spot milk

kimberly carol, she was the first to flag the fact these were removed, she said in her shop they needuse there were cuts to overtime and the machines that process 35,000 plus pieces of mail an hour, with 99% accuracy, without these machines they're creating delays. we also know there are at least two facilities one in dallas, texas, another in taco ma, washington, where postal workers have tried on their own to repair and reinstall these machines. we heard from a postal employee in dallas who gave us images of one of the dismantled machines and the person there tells us they tried to reinstall them, they were working on it over the weekend. they got to a point they realized the bar code readers had been trashed now they can't reinstall the machines they say they desperately need. >> geoff bennett, thank you so much. we appreciate you being with us. david becker, you saw the hearing yesterday. give us your perspective, if you will. >> i think it's a little troubling that we still don't have definitive answers about how the postal service is going to provide the services necessary for t

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