Postmaster General Louis DeJoy 'plans to eliminate two-day delivery for first-class mail and hike po

[Klaralven]

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy 'plans to eliminate two-day delivery for first-class mail and hike postage rates' as USPS struggles with billions in losses

DeJoy is reportedly considering eliminating two-day delivery for first-class mail
Already, less than half of letters in that category are delivered on time
Plan would also see all first-class mail shipped by truck instead of airplane
Changes would coincide with a significant price hike in postage
USPS is struggling financially even after a record holiday quarter last year

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256017/Postmaster-General-Louis-DeJoy-reportedly-plans-eliminate-two-day-delivery.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. Fire this incompetent fool.

How many things does he have to break before real action is taken?

[JHB]

27. He's not incompetent, he's a saboteur

He's one of the nutjobs who want to dismember and dismantle it.

[Grown2Hate]

41. Ironically, he's maybe one of T****'s MOST competent hirings, since the GOAL was to sabotage the

USPS overall (not just for the election, but it's been the right-wing wet dream to destroy it for as long as I can remember).

Can't get rid of him quick enough for my taste.

[bamagal62]

2. Lock him up!

[dem4decades]

3. Why hasn't this guy been investigated for voter suppression?

Didn't he attempt to disenfranchise voters by making their votes arrive late? Hard to screw the post office from jail.

[dalton99a]

4. Get rid of this asshole.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I have a better idea: Let's terminate him. n/t

[msongs]

6. how will they deliver mail to hawaii by truck? ship takes 4/5 days nt

[Hoyt]

7. Don't have a problem with that. $.55 for two day delivery is too low, as are rates for

bulk advertising.

A 20%, or so, increase will put USPS well into black even with prefunding of retirement and healthcare.

[FakeNoose]

37. If all mail were required to pay for first class postage

... whether it's .55 or $1.55 each or something in-between, it would eliminate about 95% of the JUNK MAIL that nobody wants and none of us need. It would increase costs for printed magazines, but most of those are going to electronic versions anyway. The magazines that people are willing to pay extra for would continue to be printed on paper, and maybe people would actually read them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not rooting for DeJoy and I hope he gets fired very soon. However the USPS does have some fundamental issues that need to be addressed by whomever takes his place at the top.

[Hoyt]

39. Agree completely. A few years ago, I spent some time researching the amount of junk mail, etc.,

and determined that a relatively small increase in rates -- I'm talking less than 10% -- would put the USPS in the black, even with the prefunding of pension/healthcare requirements.

There are a lot of things that can be done to make the USPS self-sustaining without changing its mission and basic operations.

[ShazzieB]

8. This reminds me.

I need to stock up on Forever stamps. Before NoJoy gets rid of those AND hikes up postage.

[ecstatic]

10. Good idea. Let me add that to my list! nt

[ecstatic]

9. I can't believe that corrupt clown is still in place

Umm... why is he still there???

And as far as 2 day delivery, looks like they've already nixed that. The last few times I've paid for 2 day priority mail delivery only to have the item arrive 14+ days later. I haven't complained because I know they're already overburdened and in trouble, but it is annoying/frustrating.

[Grasswire2]

11. I regularly send priority boxes from west coast to east coast on Friday, and they always..

...are there on Monday. Can't complain about that.

[SharonAnn]

29. Only the Pist Office Board can remove him. Biden needs to fill empty board positions to do it.

[Grasswire2]

12. I paid $45 to send a PRIORITY envelope from PNW to Novia Scotia.

Three weeks later it was on a truck somewhere on the Al Can highway.

That was odd. It was just an 8x10 envelope.

[stopdiggin]

13. once again. USPS was under severe pressure, both political and financial

long before DeJoy ever showed up on the scene.

Doesn't mean DeJoy isn't a total jerk (w/ some malignant management ideas) -- OR that the Post Office does deserve the unflagging support of the public (it most certainly does). But I continue to be a little disappointed in the amount of DU readership that seems to be under the impression that this all evolved as an effort to "suppress" the vote in 2020. Just ain't so. Post Office had big problems way before that.

[EndlessWire]

14. I agree there were problems

but DeJoy destroyed sorting machines that cost millions. That was not helpful. And he did it during mail-in voting.

[OnDoutside]

17. It's nothing to do with the universally accepted problems. DeJoy

interfered with the election mail especially in key battleground states, and for that he must be removed.

[Blue_true]

25. The big problems and have been for a while are twofold.

The requirement to prefund retirement pay and healthcare out to 75 years drains billions. No other government agency OR private company has that obligation (in fact, private companies have nothing more than the ACA Cobra mandate to deal with, and if republicans could get rid of that they would).

Second, the charter of the USPS is unique. It must somehow deliver mail to wherever people live in the USA. UPS and FEDEX serve only densely populated places. So the Post Office must deliver to places in Nebraska, Montana and other sparsely populated places, where two mailboxes may be miles apart - the private delivery companies wouldn’t touch places where their drivers can’t deliver to dozens of customers per square mile.

[live love laugh]

15. They're removing the retirement prefunding obligation putting millions back in the business

No way is a rate hike needed.

The proposal wants more $$$ while service is lessened.

Dejoy’s doing everything possible to make the company uncompetitive and unpopular to kill it off.

[MichMan]

19. I have a friend who is a letter carrier

He loves having the security of knowing his pension and retirement benefits are already funded.

[live love laugh]

20. It was funded anyway otherwise millions of retirees would not

have gotten pensions for decades and pensions will continue to be funded without a 50 year advancement.

Prefunding 50 years in advance was established under Bush approximately 15 years ago and only served to hobble the Postal Service and as a Republican piggy bank.

[MichMan]

21. That bill you are referring to also passed the House and Senate too

Wonder why they voted for it?

[live love laugh]

23. Maybe because the Bush administration threatened to veto the legislation

unless they added the provision regarding funding the employee benefits in advance.

[MichMan]

24. It passed the House 410-20

That is 95% approval which is about as unanimous as it gets in Washington

[live love laugh]

28. It doesn't help your friend or the Postal Service. nt

[Blue_true]

26. Many people no longer use mail to communicate.

I pay bills 100% online, there is no need to write and mail a check. The only thing that I use the USPS for is for shipping and package reception.

BTW, $0.55, or whatever it now is, for a First Class stamp is a bargain. In most other countries, you will likely pay several dollars for such a stamp, even if the letter is only going intra-country.

[Maeve]

34. I switched to almost completely online payments after the mail started to fail me

I had one payment stolen from the mail (didn't get cashed, but got back the open envelope) and another that never arrived after 2 weeks, both happened in 2020. Like you, I still use it for shipping and for less sensitive posts (cards and the like).

[Blue_true]

40. A person that owns a business can even get receivables payments online

now, as well as pay business bills.

My point about the First Class stamp was based upon me living temporarily in other countries. Our First Class postal rates are very inexpensive.

I believe that the best model for the Post Office need to be a multi-pronged one. Rural and ex-burb areas fully need the Postal Service, the delivery companies would charge high rates to deliver to those places. As far as cities and suburbs, the Postal Service can act as a deliverer of services that meet the needs of a diverse population, from package delivery and shipping, to no fee banking services for people that need such a service.

But one thing is clear, DeJoy needs to be fired.

[Maeve]

42. Can't disagree with anything you said--especially the last!

[OnDoutside]

16. How the hell is Postmaster General Louis DeJoy still a thing ?

[SharonAnn]

30. Only the Postal Board can fire him.

[OnDoutside]

31. Yes but there are enough unappointed board members to be

Appointed by Biden to sack DeJoy. Enough to give Democrats a 5 to 4 majority. It should have been done immediately but still hasn't.

[steve2470]

18. corrupt incompetent asshole, can't President Biden get rid of him ??

We all know he wants to gradually destroy the USPS so he can give all that business to his companies and the private sector.

[OnDoutside]

32. He can fill the board back up to its full complement of 9, which would

give Democrats a 5 to 4 majority. The board can then fire DeJoy.

[Politicalgolfer]

22. Hubby has great idea for him

If he can't be fired, he could be assigned to delivering the mail....on foot....in the meanest neighborhood they can find...in the most frigid city in the county😁

[dansolo]

33. It doesn't work that way

The board determines his assignment. He can't just be reassigned.

[MichMan]

35. Is having 2 day delivery for local mail necessary or not?

I see a lot of posts denigrating DeJoy without addressing the merits of the proposed change itself.

[Klaralven]

36. Its probably difficult to meet with the requirement for imaging

After 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax letter terrorism scare, USPS put in place the requirement to capture an image of the envelope.

Around here, that means that a letter goes from the local post office to the local center and then halfway across the state to a regional office and is then returned the same way. It is fairly likely that a first class letter from one person to another mailed and received in the same zip code will not make it in two days, especially if it is hand addressed and only has a 7 digit zip code.

[Nexus2]

38. Why is this crooked incompetent ass still in charge of the USPS? [nt]