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napi21

(45,806 posts)
Thu Mar 4, 2021, 09:21 PM Mar 2021

Why can't Biden fire DeJoy & get him the hell out of manipulating the Post Office?

I asked the question that way because I have to believe if Joe could have toss him he would have done so. Now I get this in an email: We TOLD you this would happen.
We TOLD you the Post Office is in danger of closing.
We TOLD you Republicans' evil plan was coming true.
We TOLD you we needed your help all of March to SAVE the USPS.

And Rachel Maddow just confirmed: Post Offices are starting to CLOSE.

We’re DESPERATELY launching an URGENT petition to DEMAND Congress fund the Post Office before it’s too late.


I know this crowd is trying to raise money thus the email, but this JA has already damage the PO severely, so why'she still there?

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Why can't Biden fire DeJoy & get him the hell out of manipulating the Post Office? (Original Post) napi21 Mar 2021 OP
He can only be fired by the Board of Governors leftieNanner Mar 2021 #1
Dejoy should of been arrested by now questionseverything Mar 2021 #2
He can't. Only the USPS Board of Governors can fire the postmaster. Ocelot II Mar 2021 #3

leftieNanner

(15,062 posts)
1. He can only be fired by the Board of Governors
Thu Mar 4, 2021, 09:24 PM
Mar 2021

Joe is working hard to nominate new people (four, I think) to fill it so THEY can fire him.

What I hope the Congress does this year is cancel that law that requires the USPS to fund the retirement accounts for workers for SEVENTY FIVE YEARS!!

questionseverything

(9,645 posts)
2. Dejoy should of been arrested by now
Thu Mar 4, 2021, 09:33 PM
Mar 2021

It is illegal to slow the delivery of mail, it is illegal to screw with mail in voting, he has done both

Heck he just bragged to congress he is going to slow it again

The entire board needs to be arrested for slowing the delivery of mail

Ocelot II

(115,584 posts)
3. He can't. Only the USPS Board of Governors can fire the postmaster.
Thu Mar 4, 2021, 09:33 PM
Mar 2021

The USPS isn't really a government agency like, for example, the Department of Agriculture or Transportation. It's a government-chartered corporation that operates under different rules (and has to make its own money). The Board of Governors is like a corporation's board of directors, and it, not the president, controls the USPS. The only way to get rid of DeJoy is to appoint three more members of the Board, which I believe he is in the process of doing. That will give the Board a Democratic majority, and they can sack DeJoy.

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