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    if the investigation concludes anywhere short of a criminal referral, advantage DeJoy. mere scandals no longer suffice to pressure bad guys out of office.


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    damn, I thought deliberately delaying the US mail was a crime

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1701


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    weird conflict of interest, I guess nobody cares


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    pay more, wait longer


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    USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program

    The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.

    The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America.

    In four pilot cities, customers can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 at post office locations, and

    have the money put onto a single-use gift card.

    It’s the most far-reaching executive action that the Biden administration has taken since Inauguration Day.

    https://prospect.org/economy/usps-be...-pilot-program

    but why has Biden not replaced Dejoy?

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    Trouble piles up for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

    Postmaster General DeJoy faced over a dozen conflicts of interest, refused to divest from own firm

    Dejoy reportedly recused himself from agency decisions that might have affected the performance of his former freight transportation company XPO Logistics.

    However, the postmaster general opted out of divesting from the firm altogether, opening him up to a blatant conflict of interest.


    Back in August, CNN reported that, despite his role in heading the USPS, DeJoy's stake in XPO fell between $30 million and $75 million –
    an apparent conflict that came as a complete "shock" to many outside experts.


    "If you have a $30 million interest in a company, of course it's going to impact you,"

    "I would assume that there is a problem here. It certainly doesn't pass the smell test."

    just a month after he joined the administration. The postmaster general specifically

    bought $50,000 and $100,000 in stock options for Amazon.

    "It's another conflict. He's got the option to buy. That means he's gambling that Amazon's value is going to go up,"

    "Why is he investing in a compe or to the enterprise that he's supposed to be managing?

    This is a classic case for investigation by an inspector general."

    https://www.salon.com/2021/10/23/tro...l-louis-dejoy/

    Dejoy also enriched (bought off) one of the USPS directors.

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    Somehow, I'm skeptical this will make any difference


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    Postal employees rail against Louis DeJoy's 'disastrous' new changes

    his plans to essentially privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

    Trump appointee has drawn criticism for changes he called for that resulted in delays, cuts and other upheavals,

    as well as his
    conflicts of interest,

    and postal employees unions are fighting plans to consolidate 18 processing facilities into regional centers,


    "I would say they were actually disastrous. The mail has slowed down. They reduced the service standards.

    “All of these DeJoy's changes are already hurting low-income and rural Americans, as well as small businesses,

    after the postmaster general released

    a 10-year austerity plan that called for

    longer delivery windows,

    cuts to branch hours,

    postage rate increases and

    other changes intended to improve financial sustainability.
    "

    “The 10-year plan is a plan for privatization -- it just doesn’t use the ‘p’ word,”

    https://www.rawstory.com/louis-dejoy-postmaster-general-2656385291

    The oligarchy strategy of killing govt functions to be replaced by Capitalists' profits



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    Weird how irreplaceable DeJoy is


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    Weird how irreplaceable DeJoy is

    Follow the money. Be interesting to see where that goes.

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    Somehow, I'm skeptical this will make any difference

    If Biden can't successfully oust Dejoy after being able to appoint 5/9 board members, it's a total failure on his part.

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    If Biden can't successfully oust Dejoy after being able to appoint 5/9 board members, it's a total failure on his part.
    I'm unconvinced he ever wanted to.

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    I'm unconvinced he ever wanted to.
    I'm sure, like everything else, he doesn't have a strong opinion one way or the other and is taking cues from his staffers. If enough of them tell him it's a big deal, he might push for it.

    Unfortunately his staffers are also pushing the same tone deaf COVID policy that's killing his approval rating.

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    If Biden can't successfully oust Dejoy after being able to appoint 5/9 board members, it's a total failure on his part.
    Agreed.

    Now that a majority of the board is probably willing to oust him, we will see what happens.

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    Agreed.

    Now that a majority of the board is probably willing to oust him, we will see what happens.
    The board members he picked haven't gotten approved though, right? That might be tricky with Lujan out recovering from a stroke.

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    Dems gutting the Repug strategy of crippling USPS into privatization. All House no votes were naturally Repugs

    House Passes Bill to Repeal 'Debilitating' USPS Prefunding Mandate

    "Now," McConnell added, "it's time for the Senate to pass the bill and send it to the president's desk." W T F F?

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...unding-mandate

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    USPS gets more funding, will deliver six days a week; prefunding for health care and pensions has also been relaxed.

    While lawmakers from both parties have hailed the legislation as an important step for the USPS, Paul Steidler, a Postal Service expert at the Lexington Ins ute, told CNN it doesn't go nearly far enough.


    "The bill is woefully insufficient because it does nothing to improve mail service. It takes the pressure off of the Postal Service to better understand and to reduce its costs. And it doesn't sufficiently empower the Postal Regulatory Commission, which right now is very small and has very tiny resources compared to the Postal Service."
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/polit...ill/index.html

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    USPS gets more funding, will deliver six days a week; prefunding for health care and pensions has also been relaxed.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/polit...ill/index.html
    They already deliver six days a week.

    Just a postage price increase across the board gussied up by State run media.

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    If not for the ridiculous law requiring the USPS to prefund pensions for 75 years, there wouldn't be a problem.

    Besides that, the postal service is consitutionally required infrastructure. It was never supposed to be a business.


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