'I'm Not Naive, Sir!': Congress Wants Answers On Big Postal Service Changes DeJoy Keeps Pushing [View all]

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'I’m Not Naive, Sir!': Congress Wants Answers On Big Postal Service Changes DeJoy Keeps Pushing
'I’m Not Naive, Sir!': Congress Wants Answers On Big Postal Service Changes DeJoy Keeps Pushing
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4:00 PM · Mar 11, 2021

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Before entering politics, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) spent decades at the United States Postal Service. And during a congressional hearing Thursday, she sought to get some answers about a big restructuring for the USPS, one that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has hyped for weeks without offering any details.

Lawrence pressed DeJoy, noting that the service issues currently plaguing the postal agency are unlike anything she’d seen in her 30 years at USPS. Why, she asked, hasn’t DeJoy explained his plan to Congress?

DeJoy recognized the congresswoman’s USPS service but offered a retort.

“Honestly,” he said, “the Postal Service of today and the condition we are in is not the Postal Service of 2008 when you retired.”

Lawrence wasn’t having it.

“I’m not naive, sir,” she responded. “When I left the Postal Service, I came to Congress and have had responsibility for eight years of the operations of the Postal Service, and had my thumbprint on what’s going on. So please don’t imply that I’m ignorant.”

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