USPS Head Louis DeJoy Announces Plan To Resign

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Source: Politico

National

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says it's time to find his replacement
The Postal Service Board of Governors will search for his successor.

By Amanda Friedman
02/18/2025 10:22 AM EST

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is planning his exit as the leader of the U.S. Postal Service, a closing chapter to his contentious four-plus year tenure at the agency.

In a letter released by the USPS on Tuesday, DeJoy asked the agency's board of governors to begin the process in identifying his successor.(1)

“While there remains much critical work to be done to ensure that the Postal Service can be financially viable as we continue to serve the nation in our essential public service mission, I have decided it is time to start the process of identifying my successor and of preparing the Postal Service for this change,” DeJoy said in a statement.

The statement did not say when DeJoy plans to step down.

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(1) https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2025/2025-02-17-pmg-to-bog.pdf

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/louis-dejoy-usps-replacement-020319

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/02/usps-head-louis-dejoy-announces-plan-to-resign/

USPS Head Louis DeJoy Announces Plan To Resign
February 18, 2025

[hlthe2b]

1. Now that he's plundered USPS, he'll go back to his own company to buy the scraps?

[Wingus Dingus]

2. Remember when we were told he couldn't be fired? LOL, look at Democrats

following laws. Turns out, you don't need to do that. Suckers.

[4catsmom]

3. hooray

about six years too late and the damage is done. I guess he knows DOGE is coming for him anyway

[walkingman]

4. He totally destroyed the USPS in my area and no one did anything about it. Because they couldn't.

[missingm]

6. This. Indianapolis is a black hole

How that guy was still running things was one of the greatest ball drops for the administration. We need a take action leader ready by the next election.

Fixing the Post Office and high speed rail could be 2 good issues for Dems.

[Bluetus]

24. Indianapolis, Louisville, Jacksonville. Same story all over

Indianapolis may be the worst. There are now reportedly over a million packages just sitting in piles. The piles are growing, not shrinking. I have one that was shipped on Jan 12. It hasn't moved since Feb 4.

Mission accomplished. I'm sure UPS, Fedex, DHL, and Amazon owe a great debt to DeJoy.

[mdbl]

35. My area too. He permanently closed a busy location and it just made another location 8 miles away twice as busy

It has forced me to FED Ex for a lot of package shipping, which I guess was his end game.

[Wicked Blue]

5. I really hate to think about who replaces him

Like a 20-year-old Doge hacker?

[eppur_se_muova]

7. My first thought too ... now that he can be replaced by someone worse, he's suddenly eager to leave. nt

[leighbythesea2]

12. Right

We had mail in election that worked.

Now it won’t under same conditions in future. ?

[rubbersole]

20. An AI algorithm is all we need.

According to President Musk.

[ReRe]

8. Good Riddance

You screwed up our Postal system as much as you could, so as soon as Trump gets in you resign so they can get someone in to fuck it up some more. Pretty soon we'll have men delivering our mail via horseback again. Arshole. Grown man acting like a child in a hearing in Congress, holding your hands over your ears so you couldn't hear the questions.
We The People accept your resignation.

[live love laugh]

9. Mutherfucking saboteur has surely cloned a replacement.

[masmdu]

10. New Postmaster General - Hulk Hogan

You know you thought it might be true. (sigh)

[Initech]

15. Nah, Vanilla Ice.

Hulk Hogan has said he wants to be on the President's Council On Fitness.

[truthisfreedom]

11. Well, we wanted him gone.

He could have done this during Biden’s term.

[JoseBalow]

13. Mission accomplished

[EarthFirst]

14. Maybe Ted Nugent or Hulk Hogan are available?

The insanity of this mal-administration could make this a reality…

[samsingh]

16. this lunatic is still there. Contrast to how quickly trump is acting

[Grins]

17. Biden had the power to fire him - AND DID NOTHING!

One of my peeves at him and the Party. and I have others. LBJ once said what good is having power if you are not going to use it? I still ask that question.

[dreamland]

18. WRONG! Postmaster General cannot be FIRED

By a President legally. It's a done by a Board of Governors who were selected by Previous Presidents. Consider the outrage and the field day they would have grilling Biden on this post of he did what tRUmp did.

[Grins]

32. Technically correct. Politically, not.

Biden needed only one more governor to vote for DeJoy's removal. Over two years THREE slots opened up. His three nominees, all of whom became governors, did nothing. Even when his own Party was screaming about DeJoy and mail-in voting.

(I also think DeJoy's destruction of mail sorting machines, some brand new, was a criminal act and should have resulted in charges by the DoJ. Another fail.)

[EarthFirst]

30. Incorrect.

Like many companies and organizations, the Postal Service has a board that oversees operations. This board is called the Board of Governors. One of its roles is to select the Postmaster General.

The Board of Governors itself is made up of as many as nine governors, who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. No more than five governors at any one time may be from the same political party. The governors select and have the authority to remove the Postmaster General. The Postmaster General is a member of the Board, and participates in the selection of the Deputy Postmaster General by the full Board.

https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/how-postmaster-general-selected

[Grins]

34. And WHO appoints the members of the Board of Governors?????

Biden only needed one more Governor to step up and remove DeJoy. Biden made THREE nominations to the Board. All three cleared the Senate and made the board - and did squat.

[underpants]

19. Released today. He mailed it 2 weeks ago.

[AverageOldGuy]

21. Great, just f###ing great

Now Musk and his band of thieves will privatize postal service, Musk will get the contract and we are screwed. Again.

[kimbutgar]

22. Now it is going to be privatized by the musk🐀 giving the contract to DeJoy

And the mail service will be a for profit company. Destroying the USPS because they will also ban union and raise prices exponentially.

[louis-t]

25. The orange asshole sez "postage prices should be tripled".

That's an exact quote.

[Harker]

23. He's done his part in destroying the USPS, now he can go take advantage of its demise.

Fiend.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Fuck him

[brush]

27. Did his job. Helped get trump elected, now will wait for his reward.

[appleannie1]

28. Hip, Hip, Hooray.

I have had nothing but trouble since he "fixed" the postal service. I had mail delivered 3 miles up the road and 2 checks that never did arrive. The local tax collector had her husband bolt a steel box to the front porch and everyone in our county now drives to her house and deposits their taxes in the mail slot in the top of the steel box. It is the only way they can be sure she gets it. He sure 'fixed' things.

[Joinfortmill]

29. And we thought he was bad

[FakeNoose]

31. He can resign safely now because he'll be replaced by another Repuke

Thanks for NOTHING DeJoy, now GTFO.

[Wiz Imp]

33. How is the Postmaster General selected?

Like many companies and organizations, the Postal Service has a board that oversees operations. This board is called the Board of Governors. One of its roles is to select the Postmaster General.

The Board of Governors itself is made up of as many as nine governors, who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. No more than five governors at any one time may be from the same political party. The governors select and have the authority to remove the Postmaster General. The Postmaster General is a member of the Board, and participates in the selection of the Deputy Postmaster General by the full Board.

He's likely to be replaced by a current Republican on the board.

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

[Pas-de-Calais]

36. 4 1/2 years too late

[JMCKUSICK]

37. This is really really bad for USPS

They're gonna Doge it right after he leaves and then he gets part of the privatized pie.
Just my conjecture.
The full assault on USPS is about to begin.

[LilElf70]

38. This is the best news I've heard in 6 months

My local mail delivery was 3 days before DeJoy. Now it takes 7-10, and costs me more no than then. This man was put in to destroy the Postal service and failed. Thank God. A few years back it was so bad, when I had ordered blank checks and they sat at the downtown post office for a month. Yeah, it's time for him to go

Now my next concern: The statement did not say when DeJoy plans to step down.