Hello, and welcome to the Finders Keepers episode of Sleep Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with

Emily Peck of Huffpost. Hello. I'm here with Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views. Hello.

We are going to talk about the post office this week, because honestly, who is not talking about

the post office this week? We are going to talk about shopping and whether it's all going online and what that means

we are going to talk about one of the craziest lawsuits that i have seen in a while involving

revlon of all people we are even going to have a Sleep Plus episode about productivity,

but the one thing I want to ask you is to just stay tuned until the end, or if you have to

fast forward until the end, because I have a question for you all after the numbers round,

which I want you to write in with your answer. That is coming up on Sleep Money. So let's talk about the post office. There are

big hearings going on right now and everyone thinks that it is facing existential threats and

people aren't sending as many mail letters and it's losing billions of dollars and this is a problem and Emily bring me up to

speed. Well, it's kind of a mess, Felix. Basically, this new guy came to run the post office

named Louis DeJoy. He is a Trump donor who used to work at this company called XPO Logistics

and before that owned his own logistics

company. Anyway, he is doing a lot of cost cutting stuff that people don't like that was underway

before he even started, which was only like 70 days ago. And the cost cutting stuff is reducing

the amount of overtime post office workers can take and

removing these mail sorting machines and all this is happening as the president is out there

decrying mail in voting and sort of making it look like the process of mailing in your ballot is

shady and dicey at a time when more and more people

are going to be voting by mail because of the pandemic. So this means that progressives

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