Senator Kirsten Gillibrand visited Syracuse on Labor Day, calling for postal service changes.

Workers at the distribution center in Syracuse, which services the region from Watertown to Binghamton, recently had four of 15 high-speed sorting machines removed.

The president of that facility says those were just thrown out, with hardly any advance notice.

Gillibrand is calling the removal political, as post offices get ready to deal with an influx of mail-in ballots ahead of Election Day. 

Those machines process 35,000 pieces of mail an hour.

"Not to mention we can't hire right now, the PMG is trying to eliminate overtime. We're understaffed. We have people out due to COVID or childcare issues due to COVID. You take away our high capacity machines, no overtime, trucks have to leave on time, we can't process that mail," said APWU Local 257 President Nicole Burnett. 

Gillibrand, along with workers at this facility, are all calling on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to support USPS, rather than limit its services.