Biden takes what is likely the first step to replace corrupt Postmaster DeJoy.

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text:
Kaivan Shroff
@KaivanShroff
NEW: @JoeBiden takes what is likely the first step to replace corrupt Postmaster DeJoy.

Biden will fill vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors — the Board has sole power to fire and replace DeJoy.
12:21 PM · Feb 8, 2021

[elleng]

1. EXCELLENT!!!

'A coalition formed by two postal unions is pushing a campaign to get Joe Biden to quickly fill four vacant seats on the United States Postal Service’s board of governors after he becomes president Jan. 20.

The internet-based effort is led by U.S. Mail Not For Sale, a campaign organization formed by the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers, the two largest postal unions for the U.S. Postal Service.

The campaign launched a petition drive to President-elect Biden on its website, saying filling the vacancies on the postal board is essential to “build back better the Postal Service to serve our communities and to help heal our economy.”

The campaign calls on Biden “to quickly fill the four vacancies of the Postal Board of Governors with diverse and community-based members” who will “reject the postmaster general’s agenda of cutting service and slowing the mail.”

That is a direct challenge to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was selected by a board composed of appointees of President Donald Trump.

The U.S. Mail Not For Sale campaign also calls for postal board nominees who are committed “to vibrant, public and universal postal services” to “emergency COVID-relief for USPS,” and “an agenda of expanding the role of the USPS in serving our communities.'

https://www.linns.com/news/postal-updates/two-postal-unions-start-campaign-to-fill-usps-board-of-governors-vacancies

[Elwood P Dowd]

19. Great news! K&R

[hlthe2b]

2. Boy have I been waiting to see that 'headline'... I can't wait.

[notinkansas]

85. It's a good headline but

the one I really want to see is about his prosecution. He can't get away with destroying government property and kneecapping the Post Office during a pandemic and an election.

[Mike 03]

3. Fantastic news.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Really good news.

Dejoy needs to be held accountable.
And many Americans need their mail arriving in a timely manner.

[jb5150]

51. Not just mail ...

a lot of people I know have prescriptions delivered by the Post Office.

[Irish_Dem]

59. Yes that is what I meant.

I get my medications by mail like a lot of other people and we need them on time!

[Kingofalldems]

5. DeJoy fans not liking this one.

Grand Jury should be formed also BTW.

[halfulglas]

15. Where did you find one DeJoy fan?

Even the few Republicans in my life hate the guy because even in the digital age, people like to get their mail and really prefer to get it on time. Very few people haven't had at least one late bill or package screw up.

[IronLionZion]

26. DeJoy has fans?

It's pretty blatant to everyone of both parties that DeJoy is trying to kill the postal service. GOP will use it as an excuse to privatize it, but that screws over rural customers and jacks up prices. They've already seen it this past year.

[Grokenstein]

30. Even affected cultists will continue to back Dim Donald's appointee.

There's got to be a few die-hard morons out there, even at this late stage, who think DeJoy is "pwning teh libz."

[louis-t]

50. Donnie dum dum has said "they need to triple their prices".

Direct quote. It was his excuse for not bailing out the post office. Remember the old saying repugs had "Dah private sector can do it bettah and cheapa den dah government"? Well, not so much. Not when you have to pay multi million dollar salaries to the top execs.

[IronLionZion]

63. Republican efficiency makes things very slow and expensive

with lots of errors like lost packages.

[Rebl2]

39. I agree

He should be charged with destruction of federal property for ordering the mail processing machines destroyed.

[SoonerPride]

6. The faster that fucker is out the door the better.

I'll go buy extra forever stamps if would help.

[True Blue American]

88. I did

And told them why in the PO! A roll of 100 will last a long time but I felt good!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. In the meantime. Can Congress haul his ass in (since he can't wipe his ass

with that type of request anymore) and grill him over everything he did? Maybe hold him over the balcony, Suge Knight style...... metaphorically speaking of course.

[lagomorph777]

8. Next step: arrest DeJerk.

[theneworiginal]

83. Yup. He defied a judge's order in an effort to interfere in an election.

Hold him accountable.

[Bleacher Creature]

9. This made my day!! Thanks for posting!

[Patterson]

10. What will it cost to replace the damaged machines and equipment?

[NCjack]

18. Have the Inspector General investigate the destruction of the sorting machines.

If the conclusion is that NoJoy ordered them to be destroyed, fire him.

[Lonestarblue]

47. Put him in jail for malicious destruction of government property.

[Salviati]

61. I mean, hell...

... when I worked doing office stuff at a state university, we had a number of obsolete computers that were federal property, and they were too much trouble to do the paperwork to get rid of them, so we just kept them all in a storage room. I would imagine that there is a lot of paperwork involved in the proper disposal of those machines, and I'm willing to bet that they didn't do it.

[housecat]

55. maybe they can sieze the Con's property and use that money

[North Shore Chicago]

11. I need less

deJoy in my life.

[bdamomma]

12. great

start at the top and work your way down. Makes sense.

[Blue Owl]

13. This is GOOD for the nation

And FUCK DONALD TRUMP and LOUIS DEJOY into the hellfires of TREASON

[Demsrule86]

14. Excellent news and there is a bipartisan bill that would end the Bush attempt to destroy

the post office by making them pay healthcare and pension benefits 75 years in advance.

[Blue_true]

74. One thing that I simply will never understand.

Democrats had control of all branches of government from 2009-2010. Ending the requirement that the Post Office fund retirements well into the future when no other federal agency or state agency does so should have been a priority item for Democrats. The requirement intentionally hurt the Post Office. The even more surprising thing is the people that most need the Post Office, rural people, were for it’s demise. I think that the DeJoy shock, where rural people were losing small livestock like hatchlings that they relied on the Post Office to deliver efficiently knocked some sense into their heads, their economies were badly hurt by the DeJoy nonsense - that is why we are seeing a bipartisan effort to rollback the 75 year pay ahead nonsense - the Republican Party is increasingly a rural, farm state party, a vibrant Post Office serving them is in their best interests.

[Gothmog]

16. DeJoy needs to be fired as soon as possible

[Squinch]

17. There are 4 vacancies. Looks like that might be enough to do it!

[Budi]

20. List of USPS Board of Govenors / ALL appointed by Trump

DeJoy was then apoiinted by Trump's hand picked Board members.

Link to each member & their bio

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


*Robert M. Duncan
Chairman, Board of Governors

*John M. Barger
Member, Board of Governors

*Ron A. Bloom
Member, Board of Governors

*Roman Martinez IV
Member, Board of Governors

*Donald L. Moak
Member, Board of Governors

*William D. Zollars
Member, Board of Governors

PMG/CEO Louis DeJoy
*Louis DeJoy
Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer
******

Curious as to who gave Trump the list of names to appoint?
Someone had a hand in this set up besides Trump.

[crickets]

31. Thanks for the info & links, Budi. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

36. The whole 4 years of sabotage was beyond trump's brain. The puppet masters need to be found.

[Owl]

45. All 7 are trumpers?

[MyMission]

66. 45 left 3 Dem seats open!

From Wikipedia

(The USPS board) consists of 11 members, 6 are requisite to achieve an ordinary quorum. Of the 11 board members, 9 are the presidentially appointed governors, 1 is the postmaster general, and 1 is the deputy postmaster general. The 9 governors elect the postmaster general, the chairman of the board as well as the USPS inspector general; the governors and the postmaster general elect the deputy postmaster general. No more than five governors may be adherents of the same political party. The board also has the power to remove all of these officers.[4]

So the current board has 6, not 9. 5 rethugs and 1 Dem, because they needed 6 for a quorum, plus dejoy. No deputy postmaster right now. Duncan, the chairman, will end his term in August. Then Biden can appoint another Dem and we will have the majority. If dejoy is not removed for cause or criminal charges before then, he will be voted out after our majority takes charge.

The appointments need approval, I think from the Senate.

Biden has been in office less than 3 weeks, has already accomplished so much, and needs to have his cabinet approved first. Now that the Dems have control of committees, they can finish with his cabinet approvals and then approve his new USPS nominees. While fixing the USPS is a priority, there were many priorities when he took office. Covid vaccines, stimulus, his cabinet, reversing anti-immigration and anti-environmental policies, rejoining the global community were all ahead of USPS, but it was and is high on the list. Glad he's getting to it so soon.

[Owl]

75. Thank you for the clear explanation. Very helpful.

[Budi]

78. K & R Thank You!

[onenote]

82. A couple of corrections to your post:

While all six of the presidentially-appointed governors currently serving on the USPS board were named by Trump, two (not one) are Democrats: Ron Bloom and Donald Moak. Duncan's term doesn't end until August. However, Bloom, one of the Democrats, is serving a one-year "holdover" term (his term ended December 8, 2020), and thus can be replaced at any time. In addition, the term of one of the Republicans on the board will expire December 8 of this year.

[MyMission]

84. Thanks for the update!

Don't know where I saw the 5/1 split, but really glad it's 4/2. (Did one rethug just change party affiliation? Lol) With appointments of Dems to the 3 open slots we will have a majority sooner than August, when Duncan's term expires.

[onenote]

86. It was going to be 5-1 if Trump had succeeded in replacing Bloom

There were reports that Trump was ready to replace Bloom with another Republican when Bloom's term expired on December 8, but fortunately, time ran out on Trump so Bloom continued in office as a holdover.

[Progressive Jones]

62. No doubt on the appointment list. Trump didn't assemble it. GOP USPS hit squad. nt

[Budi]

21. Yes. These appointees will give Biden a 5-4 majority

👍

[moonscape]

40. Fantastic! For some reason I thought it would take

another year to have a majority. Dancing on air!

[dsp3000]

65. I'm surprised these other vacancies werent filled by the previous admin. why not?

was it just an oversight? or some procedural thing?

[MyMission]

70. Empty seats belong to Democrats, so

45 left them vacant. See my post #66 for more information about the board.

[SunSeeker]

22. Hallelujah! nt

[Sucha NastyWoman]

23. They just lost $175 worth of heart worm / flea medicine for my dogs

Our Next Door app is full of complaints by neighbors of misdelivered mail.

The incompetence is ridiculous. Even worse, our mail delivery lady is a Trumpster.

[Dem2theMax]

24. This is one of the things I've really been waiting to see.

I have a mailbox in my neighborhood, as most of us do. And normally, it's emptied every day.

I know this because I pick up my mail in the evenings, and usually drop something into the mailbox. And you can always tell it's empty because you hear your mail hitting the bottom of the mailbox.

The last three or four times I have put mail in that mailbox at night, I don't hear my mail hitting the bottom of the box. I hear my mail hitting more mail. And there has to be a lot of mail in there for that to happen.

[Paper Roses]

41. I no longer use mailboxes. I agree with you, is it picked up daily?

It took 22 days for my credit card payment to get from my town(MA) to NJ. I always pay my bills early because I have to live on whatever dollars are left. Social Security does not go far but if bills are not paid, it is a black mark. I now go inside the Post Office and use the internal slots. Don't know if it helps but I'm not comfortable after the Credit Card fiasco.

I am not comfortable paying bills on-line, still buy stamps and get the bills out. My local bank had boxes for local bill payment deposits,(light, water, and other local) but the boxes are closed now because of Covid.

My bills go all over the place before they reach their destination. I recently sent a birthday card to my granddaughter..in state...and it took a week to get there.
No excuse!

[empedocles]

25. When, and if I suppose, dejoy is convicted - enabling board members should be . . .

[AllaN01Bear]

27. not only removed but arrested for obstruction of us mail and destruction of fed property.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Trump missed filling vacancies?

Probably trimming costs to bulk the bottom line for privatization

[crickets]

29. Good news! It's high time for DeJoy's comeuppance. nt

[jmowreader]

32. DeJoy owes me six gallons of gasoline

I've been getting a bunch of mail from banks, insurance companies, etc. related to my parents' estate. My sister who's a CPA (and also a Trump-hating Republican, as is her husband) is doing all the financial paperwork, and she lives 120 miles from me. So, last Tuesday I bundled up the entire pile and hauled it down there in my car.

She asked me if I was "just trying to get out of the house for the day."

No, I said, because of Trump I didn't trust the Postal Service to get this down here before April 15th.

[TNNurse]

33. Have wondered about this Board of Governors.

Did it exist from the beginning? Is there anything else comparable in the Federal government???

[Bob_in_VA]

56. No, only since 1971

Originally the United States Post Office (original name) was a federal agency like DOD or State Department. On July 1, 1971 the Post Office became the United States Postal Service, a quasi private corporation. Still answerable to Congress but no longer a Federal agency. The new USPS would no longer be headed by the Postmaster General but by a Board of Governors who would, among other duties, appoint the Postmaster General.

The original reason for the change was to get politics out of the postal service. Before the change, Congresscritters could nominate individuals to become the local Postmaster(s) for the post office(s) in their respective districts, a carryover from the old "spoils" system that existed before the advent of the Civil Service. These nominees would, almost universally, have no idea how to run the local post office resulting in problems but the Congresscritters didn't care, they were just happy to have a way of rewarding their donors (at the public's expense). Eventually it became clear that that process was unsustainable so instead of converting the local postmaster positions (and higher level positions) to Civil Service with just the Postmaster General and his/her immediate subordinates being appointed (like it is done in every other government agency) they came up with this bastard child of a compromise.

One other reason, frequently overlooked, is postal rates. Whenever the Post Office would propose a rate increase the Congresscritters would get howls of anguish from their constituents. By sloughing off this task to the new USPS, they could point to the USPS Board of Governors as the culprits.

[Pepsidog]

34. Good.

[Silver Gaia]

35. Excellent news!

I knew there had to be a way to get rid of this corrupt MF. Biden is doing his best to oust the Trumpers embedded in our government, and DeJoy is one of the worst, so I am VERY glad to learn about this.

[marble falls]

37. Time frame? Is he going to replace board members till he gets his quorum? I like it.

[Paladin]

38. It can't happen soon enough to suit me.

DeJoy ought to face prison time---but he'll probably just go back to counting his piles of money.

[monkeyman1]

42. just another trump stooge !!!!

[BobTheSubgenius]

43. The sooner, the better.

That corporatist stooge has done what I'll call "generational" damage. Harm that is going to take years to remedy.

Why do the fascisti had the USPS so much?

[gldstwmn]

44. He should go to prison.

[ffr]

46. AND I hope there are repurcussions for his destructive anti-Democracy actions

What he did and is still doing to the USPS should not be duplicated again.

Shameful!

[Evolve Dammit]

48. Arrest the SOB for trying to steal an election by NOT DELIVERING MAIL, destroying sorting machines.

[Marius25]

49. Why can't Biden just fire the whole Board?

They're all Trump loyalists. The Chair is the Director of Moscow Mitch's Super PAC.

[calimary]

52. OH PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!!!!! Make it SO!!!!!

Oh Sweet Heaven DO IT!!!

GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!

[C Moon]

53. Get rid of that overweight, smug, unAmerican bastard piece of trash!!

[nwliberalkiwi]

54. Vacancies

There is not that many vacancies available to fill. The Trump appointees will hold power.

[Vivienne235729]

57. I sure hope so! Keeping fingers crossed.

[Poiuyt]

58. Doesn't the postmaster serve at the pleasure of the president?

Why can't Biden just fire him?

[joshdawg]

73. I don't understand that either.

The former POTUS appointed this idiot to the position of Postmaster General, so why can't President Biden fire his ass??
asking for a friend.

[onenote]

81. The Postmaster General is appointed by and only can be replaced by the board of governors.

[joshdawg]

92. So the board of governors are trump ass-kissers?

Is that what you are saying?
asking for a friend

[BigDemVoter]

60. I don't know what planet I've been residing on. . . .

I completely forgot about that swine, DeJoy, when President Biden and Vice President Harris won. I guess I was so delighted to see those assholes kicked out of the White House that I just overlooked the odious remnants of that criminal regime. He's a pig, and it's a pity he won't be punished for his role in attacking the Post Office with the goal of helping the Trump hog steal the election. NASTY people. Even writing about them makes me want to wash my hands. . .

[LiberalFighter]

64. 4 of the current board members were appointed by Republican.

Filling the 4 vacancies will give the board a Democratic control.

[Rhiannon12866]

67. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

68. Repeal the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and then we're talking.

[spanone]

69. ⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧⇧

[Cetacea]

71. Misleading. Article is from mid-January

Though I'm confidant that President Biden will eventually do it, has not done anything yet. Click bait twitter author.

[Maru Kitteh]

72. Sha na na na, sha na na na, hey hey hey

goodbye

[quakerboy]

76. Can we just skip the steps

And jump straight through to asking for resignations from EVERY single one trump brought into any facet of government, and then firing those who wont?

I guess department by department will eventually get us there. But Im impatient.

[c-rational]

77. Yes, yes and yes.

[LisaM]

79. Oh,.good.

Excellent news. And I think I read that they were working on fixing the pension issue, too.

I love the Post Office. I don't know how, but my two-day priority mail package that I mailed on December 22nd got there on December 24th. And when we needed new passports a few years back, we got them through the Post Office and for some ridiculously cheap price like $35, they did all the work for us and we got our passports processed and mailed to us in a really short period of time.

[Raine]

80. GOOD, that guy is really bad news and needs to go! nt

[gollygee]

87. Thank goodness. nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

89. I hope they bill him for all the sorting machines. nt

[FakeNoose]

90. Yes - let him pay for the destruction

It will cost $ millions to replace the equipment he destroyed last year.
Let DeJoy and Chump for that, not us taxpayers!

[leftyladyfrommo]

91. He destroyed 700 machines at 1.3 mil. Each.

I am so pissed off about that.