If Postmaster General Louis DeJoy were working for a private business instead of a government agency, he’d have been fired a long time ago. He doesn’t deserve his job, which was a partisan gift that he is using to damage the very institution he runs – now and for years to come.
DeJoy has been in his role for less than a year and has courted nothing but controversy. His record as Postmaster General has been dreadful, marked by a series of agency failures and a decline in service that reached its nadir over the busy holiday season. While he apologized for the Post Office’s slowed-down holiday service, he did not take personal responsibility, instead pointing to what he described as long-standing problems. The buck, it seems, does not stop with him – despite whatever failures have occurred on his watch.
The ethical hurricane surrounding Postmaster General Louis DeJoy took another surprising turn last weekend as CBS News reported that his former company XPO Logistics scored a $5 million contract from the United States Postal Service in August to transport mail between Norfolk, VA and Evansville, IN. The contract, disclosed as part of a USPS report in October, was reportedly negotiated and signed in August.
DeJoy announced his 10-year makeover of the PostalService, "Delivering For America," in March. It aims to ensure the post office's financial stability by streamlining operations, ending reliance on air transport for long-distance mail, as well as investing in a new fleet of delivery vehicles.
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Most controversially, the plan would lengthen expected delivery times for much first-class mail, raising opposition from an array of postal users. Twenty-one attorneys general from mostly Democrat-leaning states urged the Postal Regulatory Commission to block the proposed changes.
The president cannot directly fire DeLoy. It is up to us to pressure the board and get them to act.
Suspicious from the get-go