Being in contempt of congress is fashionable these days. Street cred or something.

Who wants to bet trump says he's going to cut funding unless they comply? His whole play book is extortion.

Republicans don't care much about legal unless it's Democrats doing it.

It isn't legal. They're doing it anyway.

It's kind of a pattern.

If you're interested, this is the recent letter the Senate sent to this guy, outlining exactly how unconstitutional it is. It's a very good read, you don't have to be a lawyer to understand it, and it's and not too long:

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/260623_USPS_Absentee_EO_Letter.pdf

And before the "strongly worded letter" crowd jumps on, pre-litigation letters are part of how the Senate conducts business. They're NOT writing this because they think a strongly worded letter will help this hopped-up Trump toadie to find his lost love for democracy, they're writing it in the form of a brief to create the paper trail and set the stage for the individual states to sue the USPS, because constitutionally in the United States the states control elections, not the federal government. The orange chancre is literally trying to override the Constitution with an executive order (again).

The USPS is part of the executive, the Senate is part of the legislative, and the battle between will be in the judicial: because the underlying issue is an election, powers already clearly assigned by the Constitution, much of this particular battle against extreme federal overreach will likely fall to the states to fight in court, or not.

Call the cops

It's supposed to prevent them from holding elections so they have no representation in Congress

I wouldn't expect the rule to be followed everywhere. Postal workers in an all mail state might just ignore it as nonsensical. Some workers in other states might as well, but this gives MAGA workers the green light to meddle. And if a bunch of votes get blocked/destroyed that introduces uncertainty in the result that can be capitalized on by incumbent fascists.

I know that in King county, Washington, you can print your own ballot, fill it out, and deliver it to a ballot drop box. This is still bullshit because there will be a huge number of people who can’t do that or won’t know they need to.

To what end? The republicans have been trying to kill the USPS for a very long time.

Can bet if these people see a sign or get a whiff of your not on their side, your mail in ballot going straight to the trash.

That is truly horrific, your vote could be stolen because your mail person doesn’t like you.