And another thing . . . . . . Louis DeJoy and the horrible service by the USPS

[Stinky The Clown]

I subscribe to an app called nextdoor. I'll bet some of you have access to it in your area, too.

There are now pretty much daily tales of near-criminal inability to get mail from point A to point B. How many people end up paying their bills late because the bill got to them late? Weeks and weeks to deliver Christmas cards. Ebay deliveries lost or late. And on and on.

For us, personally, there are days when no mail shows up. I don't blame the carriers. In fact, in talking with them I hear about limited overtime and rules about "deliver what you can" guidance wherein they are told to leave with whatever mail they have and not wait even a minute to get the rest.

Will late bills have an impact on people's credit scores?

Will late or lost merchandise start to cost people and businesses real money?

But most of all, will this further erode the already low level of trust in the United States Postal Service?

Is DeJoy's ongoing incumbency a threat to future mail in voting programs?

Louis DeJoy may be just a leftover turd in the national punch bowl. I see him as part of the threat to a fair and reliable voting system in the future.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. DeJoy needs to go.

The nine ton Elephant in the room is,thousands of unfilled jobs. Just for starters. USPS is by nature a labor intensive business.

DeJoy will be history me thinks later in the year. Now with a Dem as Chairman of the Committee that over sees Postal,you will see Joy Boy out the door no matter what.

[BarbD]

3. What Committee is that?

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Believe it is Ways and Means

or Governmental operations.

[BarbD]

2. Who has authority over the Postal Service? A Board of Governors?

Who oversees this agency?

How can we get rid of DeJoy?

[rurallib]

6. I believe right now USPS is an independent agency headed by a board of governors

Here you go:

https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/

[Wicked Blue]

7. The link says there are four vacancies exist on the board of governors at present

Time for some Biden appointees!

[BarbD]

8. Seems like this is a no-brainer.

However, I think we need Postal Reform. As I recall, we have nearly bankrupted the USPS by insisting they operate at a profit.

It is time for serious hearings acknowledging the need for a viable Postal Service.

[Wicked Blue]

10. I agree nt

[rurallib]

11. Were they allowed to run like a normal company, they would be very successful, however

at the end of the W administration a reform bill passed that forced the USPS (and only the USPS) to pay workers health care and retirement some 75 years in advance. Thus the USPS must put billions into a fund that sits and does nothing for 75 years.

I can't remember how much the post office must put into the fund yearly. They have been short for many years and this is always the source of the "USPS is going bankrupt" stories.

Reform is desperately needed. How they have held on as long as they have is amazing.

[BarbD]

16. You are correct. Couldn't recall the details of what you described.

It seems to me, because so many people such as myself, rely on the Post Office, Postal Reform should be added to the very long "to do" list of the Biden/Harris administration.

[bif]

5. I joke with my wife that we only get mail on even numbered days

But in reality, sometimes it's only a couple days a week. Used to get a letter from Detroit to L.A. in three days or less. It took over a month to get a Thanksgiving card from my niece from the west side of the city!

[bottomofthehill]

9. We are still getting Christmas cards delivered that were postmarked before Christmas

30 days for a first class letter to get from suburban Boston to suburban Washington. I could have walked it here faster.

[Hekate]

12. DeJoy is on my short list as well, for all the reasons you state

He’s one of many corrupt Trump appointees installed to deliberately wreck whatever department they’re in.

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Fuck Trump. I paid $8 to mail a small cold package 80 miles, 2-day. It left on 1/5 got there on 1/18

[eleny]

14. From Mad Magazine's "Scenes we'd like to see" - "You're out"

[dansolo]

15. Every one of my December bill payments were late

I dropped off my bills at the post office like I usually do, and every single bill that I sent except one has still not been received. I am especially pissed because I decided to pay down a chunk of my credit card balance and my check is in limbo.

I had chosen to continue to use the mail to pay my bills to support the postal service, but I can't do that anymore. I finally switched over to electronic payments.