It can be characterized that way, but the person who did the gutting was a Trump appointee and he seems to have done it in a deliberately ham-fisted way. Should the postal service struggle with ballots anywhere in the country that will be taken as a sign of fraud, but the reality is they did a poor job of making changes whether they were necessary or not.

Edit: downvotes aren’t from me. Yours is a perspective I can’t refute, but what I have read says the post office would be perfectly fine if their budget stopped being raided.