Postal Service awards $5 million contract to DeJoy's former company
Source: CBS News
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's former company landed a $5 million highway-shipping contract last month with the United States Postal Service.
DeJoy continues to own a multimillion-dollar stake in XPO Logistics as of early October. The $5 million deal is the first regular contract for a postal route that XPO Logistics has signed with the USPS in more than a year. XPO's last highway contract with the USPS was in December and was temporary. The one before that was in signed in July 2019.
XPO's contract to move mail for the next 18 months between Norfolk, Virginia, and Evansville, Indiana has not been previously reported. The contract was negotiated in August and disclosed in mid-October as part of a quarterly update to a database of USPS suppliers.
The Postal Service will pay XPO $3.3 million annually to manage its route between the two cities, which are roughly 700 miles apart. The USPS database shows the contract has one of the highest annual rates out of more than 1,600 contracts the Postal Service initiated with outside firms in its most recent quarter, which is the first full quarter DeJoy has served as head of the agency.
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The Trump Administration has taken sleaze to a whole new level
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)It's not anything new.
It is true DeJoy is a GOPer POS.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,766 posts)That was generally the practice before Trump took over.
mpcamb
(2,868 posts)It's a Hatch Act violation.
LymphocyteLover
(5,638 posts)I thought the hatch act was for campaigning
Hoyt
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Yeehah
(4,568 posts)All these crooked assholes must be charged.
TeamPooka
(24,210 posts)Let Congress investigate it
ffr
(22,665 posts)I'm sure there's a nice premium in there and an incentive to put legitimate businesses out of business.
Blue Owl
(50,291 posts)Louis DeJoy is a:
A) Welfare Queen
B) GOP Election-Tampering Operative
C) Trump Stooge
D) Unqualified, Incompetent Shill
E) All of the above
Correct Answer: E
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