1/13 Trump's assault on the USPS was a stab at the technological heart of it.

If done by a foreign power, this would be considered an act of war.

The fact that POTUS did it warrants removal from office.

Trump discarded a Pioneering AI Systems.

2/13 Specifically, handwriting recognition for postal automation led by University Buffalo, NY. https://www.buffalo.edu/cubs/research/pioneers-in-ai-systems.html?fbclid=IwAR34P8x2O-82-KrJNgGApV40yBCbNoId04wf5pKu93Ye9KuR_pJOVGZE_4o#title_1277806965

3/13 "Professor Govindaraju's work in handwriting recognition was at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the United States Postal Service."

"Govindaraju's research focuses on machine learning and pattern recognition and his seminal work ..."

4/13 "in handwriting recognition was at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system used by the U.S. Postal Service".

Key point: these machines read and understood handwriting on envelopes to decide what to do with any given envelope. NOT MECHANICAL SORTING.

5/13 Prof. Govindaraju "Over the past two decades, he has also made significant contributions to the field of Biometrics, including advances in fingerprint and face recognition, signature identification, multi-biometric fusion, and soft biometrics."

Heard of those technologies?

6/13 ALSO...."Building on this significant achievement, Govindaraju has made critical contributions to more general handwriting recognition including multilingual OCR of Indic, Arabic and other scripts , impacted the humanities with his work on historical document processing, "

7/13 "... influenced web security by his work on handwritten CAPTCHAs and is now spearheading innovations in AI driven augmentations for learning with his award winning work on content-based indexing and summarization of lecture videos and presentations."

8/13 If you ever tried to launch an AI start up, you probably realized how foundational this work is.

What Trump did is the equivalent of grabbing the first McIntosh / IBM PC to trash it alleging people did not need them because they know how to read and write anyway..

9/13 Ignoramus Post Master Dejoy used his logistics backgrounds to dispose of the machines with sophisticated AI algorithms in them. He killed efficiencies instead: AI is best at repetitive tasks where it complements humans automating tasks to speed them up at inhuman levels

10/13 A human cannot read, understand, handle, and sort thousands of hand written envelopes in one hour.

My last point Trump shows as much disdain with science with the USPS as he showed with Dr. Faucci.

11/13 Who is Professor Govindaraju's?

Globally recognized for his groundbreaking research, Govindaraju has received numerous honors, including the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements Award, IEEE Technical Achievement Award and fellowships of major professional societies incl..."

12/13 "...the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, ACM, AAAS, SPIE, and IAPR. He holds four (4) patents and authored/co-authored over 450 scientific papers. He has served on the editorial boards of premier journals.. "

13/13 "..such as the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Biometrics Council Compendium..."

In fact, if I did not know better, either Trump or one on his underlings engaged in a personal vendetta here..."