Postmaster General Louis DeJoy smiled to his web camera Tuesday as he heralded a new era for the United States Postal Service, one marked most prominently by … slower and more expensive mail.
When will DeJoy be fired?
Inside DeJoy’s brain:
“DeJoy’s Much-Anticipated 10-Year Plan…”
Does it involve Leavenworth?
(How about a 20-to-Life plan?)
I know DeJoy isn’t a direct appointment, so apparently Biden can’t just fire him. But I sure hope Biden is doing something behind the scenes to get rid of him. DeJoy is a menace. He has a Trumpist political philosophy that mail-in voting is bad, so he’s going to do everything he can to make that harder. And if regular mail suffers as well, so be it.
Literally trying to kill the USPS.
In a time when people get pissed off if their Amazon package takes more than two hours to deliver, somehow it’s acceptable for a letter to take a week to cross town???
“Does it make a difference if it’s an extra day to get a letter? Because something has to change.”
Yes, because every piece of first-class mail is just a note from gramma with $5 in it for your birthday. (I’m mumblemumble years old Nana! I don’t really need five bucks.)
Cool story: my SO had significant, but not particularly dangerous, laparoscopic surgery two Thursdays ago - the 11th of March. On the 8th of March, we called the doctor’s office to clarify some information about pre-surgery preparation. They gave us the info and promised to mail out more specifics to our house.
We got the pre-surgery information six days after the surgery.
Just yesterday she got a “get well soon” type of card from the post-op nurses (very nice of them!) which was sent the day after her operation. So, about 10 days to reach us across town.
Fuck DeJoy. He needs to go soonest.
Wonder if any of these changes will benefit people who own shares or rent property to XPO Logistics?
Or will he simply demand they route everything through boutique hotels in Portland?
Biden has nominated three people to the USPS board of governors. If they get confirmed, then Democratic appointees will have a majority and could take action. That’s my understanding of the situation anyhow.
Dejoy should have been fired on day one. He’s making an even bigger mess to clean up. Get him out of there, already.
The plan also hints at the possibility of transitioning fully to eclectic vehicles by 2035
ICE CREAM TRUCKS!
CLOWN CARS!
OSCAR MEYER WEINERMOBILES!
Also, the hearse carrying DeJoy’s career.
“Delivering for America,” as the plan is branded
I swear I misread that as “Damaging America.” Post-DJT Twitch is a real syndrome.
I should imagine that those much slower delivery standards will be heightened in the run up to local, State and Federal elections, too.
As long as mail in ballots are allowed anyway.
True story: we had a primary here in WI in February. I got my absentee ballot and mailed it in 1 week before the election. Town hall, which is where my polling place is here, is about a ten minute walk from my front door. The post office is up on the hill, maybe a ten minute drive away.
MyVote.gov indicated that my mail in ballot was not received in time for the election.
We have another election in three weeks. I walked my ballot up to the dropbox at town hall on Friday. This morning, MyVote.gov indicates my ballot was registered received yesterday, the 22nd.
If we accept this as good service, then I have no complaint, but I don’t think we should accept it.
Congress first needs to lift the onerous pension funding bill that they themselves put in place. Then get rid of DeJoy.
Problem solved.
DeJoy’s ‘10 Year Plan’ reminds me of the old IT joke.
Q: “How long does it Bill Gates change a light bulb?”
A: “He does not change it. He declares darkness the industry standard”
BTW, this is from long ago, and I’ve come to admire Bill Gates and the philanthropist he has become…
If they get confirmed, it is a 50/50 split, so the problem won’t go away entirely with these three nominations.
The plan also hints at the possibility of transitioning fully to eclectic vehicles by 2035
Well, it seems I’ve underestimated DeJoy. I actually like this idea. Maybe a fleet of art cars, possibly something that would fit in at Burning Man … eh? What’s that? A typo? Oh, I see.
How disappointing.
ETA: Ah nuts, @redacted beat me to it.
This is a bald-faced plan to turn the USPS into a fourth-rate service so that customers become fed up and demand it be replaced with private carriers. Why the chair of the Board of Governors seems to be going along with this is beyond me.
There are nine members, plus the Postmaster General and the Deputy Postmaster General, for a total of eleven, which precludes a 50/50 split.
That’s the best news I’ve read today! I’m golden if this thing is declared street legal:
Which just happens to be Mr. DeJoy’s own business background, an obvious conflict of interest from which he miiiiight not have fully separated himself.