damn, I thought deliberately delaying the US mail was a crime
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1701
if the investigation concludes anywhere short of a criminal referral, advantage DeJoy. mere scandals no longer suffice to pressure bad guys out of office.
damn, I thought deliberately delaying the US mail was a crime
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1701
weird conflict of interest, I guess nobody cares
pay more, wait longer
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?
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.
Somehow, I'm skeptical this will make any difference
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
Weird how irreplaceable DeJoy is
Follow the money. Be interesting to see where that goes.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.htmlWhile 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."
They already deliver six days a week.
Just a postage price increase across the board gussied up by State run media.
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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