Don’t you just love it, when Documents turn up that proves THEY ARE LYING ...
Aug 22, 2020 — Press Release — House Committee on Oversight and Reform
Washington, D.C. (Aug. 22, 2020)—Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released new internal Postal Service documents warning Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about steep declines and increasing delays nationwide over the last two months as a result of his drastic operational and organizational changes.
“After being confronted on Friday with first-hand reports of delays across the country, the Postmaster General finally acknowledged a ‘dip’ in service, but he has never publicly disclosed the full extent of the alarming nationwide delays caused by his actions and described in these new documents,” said Chairwoman Maloney. “To those who still claim there are ‘no delays’ and that these reports are just ‘conspiracy theories,’ I hope this new data causes them to re-think their position and support our urgent legislation today. We have all seen the headlines from every corner of our country, we have read the stories and seen pictures, we have heard directly from our constituents, and these new documents show that the delays are far worse than we were told.”
[Steep declines in Postal Service begin in July 2020, and coincide with executive cut-backs in service.]
The new documents being released by the Committee today are part of a “PMG Briefing” — a presentation prepared directly for the Postmaster General last week, on August 12, 2020. They provide a detailed assessment of service performance trends over the past year.
According to these documents, there has been a significant drop in service standards across the board since the beginning of July — including in First-Class, Marketing, Periodicals, and Priority Mail.
The Postmaster General and his top aides have never admitted to the sweeping delays and reductions in service caused by his actions and detailed in these new documents.
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Two days earlier, Comer and House Republican leaders Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise sent a letter to Chairwoman Maloney and Speaker Nancy Pelosi arguing that nationwide reports of delays are nothing but “conspiracy theories” being “manufactured” by Democrats to “undermine President Trump” and support “an unnecessary bailout plan.”
Click here to read the new documents released by the Committee today.
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Or put more bluntly, Louis DeJoy lied to Congress in his recent testimony:
‘Flat-out lied’: Elizabeth Warren and a lot of other people sure think Louis DeJoy committed perjury
by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement, RawStory — August 21, 2020
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One of apparently several issues: DeJoy’s testimony about overtime.
“Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said today during his testimony that he has not cut postal workers’ overtime,” MSNBC reports. “But an internal USPS document show how policy changes prohibit ‘extra’ or ‘late’ trips and mandating that carriers ‘return on time.'”
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Well DeJoy does work for Trump, via his intermediary Mnuchin. So that means DeJoy is now following the Trump Playbook:
Trump Rule #3 — "Fool whoever you can, whenever you can."
Trump Rule #2 — "‘The Facts’ are whatever you say they are."
Trump Rule #1 — "Say whatever benefits Donald Trump. Period. End of Discussion."
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Louis DeJoy has certainly gotten that ‘Trump Memo’:
DeJoy says he was unaware 700 collection boxes had been removed — CNN, Aug 21
'They're not needed, sir': Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says USPS won't replace removed mail-sorting machines — Business Insider, Aug 21
Contradicting DeJoy’s claims, USPS internal documents show how overtime has been limited — MSNBC, Aug 21
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Apparently removing these things — ‘was all news to him’
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They’re going to go back to the old-fashion way — the Trump way …
Trump’s idea of Postal “sorting machines” …
— you know: “Whatever works for Donald Trump.”
End of discussion. So there “might be” a few delays …
