HomeUnited StatesNew bill would place restrictions on DeJoy’s USPS reform efforts | USPS is stripping rural America of reliable service without “legitimate justification,” senator says.
New bill would place restrictions on DeJoy’s USPS reform efforts | USPS is stripping rural America of reliable service without “legitimate justification,” senator says.
May 8, 2024
New bill would place restrictions on DeJoy’s USPS reform efforts | USPS is stripping rural America of reliable service without “legitimate justification,” senator says.
>The Protecting Access to Rural Carriers for Every Location (PARCEL) Act, introduced by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., would prohibit the consolidation of mail processing operations unless the Postal Service met certain conditions. Under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year Delivering for America plan, USPS is in the midst of consolidating mail sorting away from individual post offices in favor of centralized centers and moving processing operations away from hundreds of cities and towns in favor of 60 mega-centers throughout the country.
>In some cases, such as Tester’s home state of Montana, those changes will move major elements of mail processing out of a state entirely. Several lawmakers have voiced concern with that approach, citing the potential for increased delays as traffic and weather disrupt mail transportation.
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>Mail delays have spiked across the country and performance has been particularly poor in areas piloting the new network structure, leading DeJoy to apologize and promise improvements. He added, however, that his efforts will bear fruit if given appropriate time.
>“It’s easy to criticize when you show up at the crime scene and see the damage, but the path there is long and people are working very hard to change minds and hearts in terms of how we perform,” the postmaster general said.
>A recent inspector general report found the standing up of a new RPDC in Richmond, Virginia, led to worse service, an uninformed public, decreased employee availability and a spike in late and canceled mail transportation trips.
>The changes have caused “additional labor and transportation costs, and it is uncertain if expected savings will be achieved,” the IG said. Previous IG reports have found prior efforts to consolidate facilities led USPS to perform worse while realizing just a tiny fraction of the cost reductions it had anticipated.
Weird to admit he’s causing a crime scene.
It’s in the name.
“Service”
Eh… seems like this is just an example of rural America getting the policies that they, themselves, voted for. Providing rural services costs many more tax dollars per resident than providing these same services to urban areas. And god knows rural Americas hate handouts. Thats socialism.
Why isn’t dejoy a criminal in jail yet? This guy tried to subvert the election!!
I live in a semi-rural area..when I order Amazon it would be here the within 2 days…now I get USPS notification it will be 3…then 4 days..You can’t tell me asshat isn’t the cause of this..
I really hate it when Republican attacks on our government are characterized as reform. That’s like taking a sledgehammer to someone’s leg and calling it physical therapy.
I miss the days when I didn’t even know who the postmaster general was, because they weren’t drawing attention to themselves by dismantling the USPS to enable fascist coups in our country.
How soon till we can oust this mobster?
The post office is a service mandated in the constitution itself. It is simply abhorrent that the Republicans are trying to destroy it by insisting that it be “profitable”. No one demands that any other mandated government service turn a profit.
You gotta hand it to the GOP; they think ahead. DeJoy was brought in around May 2020, IMO for the sole purpose of fucking with the ‘24 election via delayed or lost mail-in ballots.
We all know he’s trying for the same plan as before….delay and slow mail-in voting as much as possible and to make the case that the USPS should be privatized.
That’s why this guy is at the USPS.
Say it with me now, the USPS is a branch of service, they do not need to turn a profit. They do exceptionally well despite being dicked with for 30 years, and the only thing we need to do is get rid of Dejoy and let them be.
JIT (Just In Time) Logistics strategies has failed due to DeJoy
DeJoy already violates ethics code for Federal employees due to his stock holdings. He should be forced to divest himself of his holdings or resign.
Shitty Slow walking full on privatization of everything. Greed is a hell of a drug.
Don’t send in your mail in ballot while he’s in command. Seems intentional to screw everything up before the next election
Congress originally set up the US Postal Service to be resistant to politics, but with the unintended consequence that when one party (Republicans) manages to install a political hack (DeJoy) as Postmaster General, those same protections make him nearly impossible to dislodge.
You think it’s bad now wait until it ballot mailing time.
DeJoy is a leftover from Trump’s poor decision making. Dump him ASAP and let’s get our mail system working properly.
Mail carrier here. DeJoys system has changed up the truck logistics in our area to where our truck with out DPS(machine sorted letters) will arrive. Our post offices answer? Leave without the mail and deliver what shows up later the next day.
I’m so embarassed when customers ask me “why hasn’t (said letter) shown up yet?
Our mail service in Montana has been terrible ever since DeJoy took over the USPS, we really need to get rid of him.
DeJoy is a top tier moron. How is this guy in charge of anything.
Fuck DeJoy!
Didn’t see this in the comments so I think we need to start this trend.
Justification? That’s easy.
Anger the hicks.
An angry hick votes Republican, cause Look What Biden Did.
Trump’s legacy continues to “deconstruct the administrative state. Want to kill the United States? Just vote Republicans into office.
It’s not just Dejoy all the managers are complicit in his plan and their plan is to disrupt the election.
Hey Anonymous, surely you have a few emails you can share??
That’s why trump appointed him. If conservatives can keep convincing poor Americans that the government isn’t working for them, conservatives can continue the privatization of every aspect of life until corporations have control of everything.
I live in rural Montana and we already have issues with inconsistent USPS. this would just add to our issues. UPS has enacted similar rural practices. Used to deliver to us 5 days a week and now it’s only three days and we’re never sure what those days will be.
As long as we’re okay supporting the USPS budget, everybody can have Amazon quick delivery.
Why is DeJoy still in charge of anything in government? How to prune this sandbagging dipshit?
Why is he still there????
The Postal Service has only gotten worse since Dejoy, a Trump appointee, took over. Mail that originated in Jacksonville (going to Orlando) sometimes travels to the Carolinas or Indiana or God only knows where, before it finally comes back to Florida and gets to Orlando. And that happens frequently.
OR- we could wake up tomorrow and he’s died of a heart attack
Imagine a person with shares in FedEx trying to privitize a competitor. So crazy! 😡
JFC if you can’t fire this asshole arrest him.
Either the USPS is a service and should not be required to make a profit, or it is a private company that should be able to set prices to be competitive to make a profit.
Republicans have insisted it should be profitable while not allowing the USPS to compete with other private shipping and mail services, and while requiring more investment for pensions that aren’t required for any other entity
Biden should fire the republicans on the Board that controls DeJoy’s job, for dereliction of duty in permitting DeJoy to sabotage the USPS. It’s unconscionable that this is still happening when there’s a democrat in the White House.
Or put USPS back in the Cabinet and we can go from there
Why can’t they hire a new contractor person, then 90 days later tell him his job is redundant and he is no longer needed? That’s what normal companies do.
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>The Protecting Access to Rural Carriers for Every Location (PARCEL) Act, introduced by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., would prohibit the consolidation of mail processing operations unless the Postal Service met certain conditions. Under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year Delivering for America plan, USPS is in the midst of consolidating mail sorting away from individual post offices in favor of centralized centers and moving processing operations away from hundreds of cities and towns in favor of 60 mega-centers throughout the country.
>In some cases, such as Tester’s home state of Montana, those changes will move major elements of mail processing out of a state entirely. Several lawmakers have voiced concern with that approach, citing the potential for increased delays as traffic and weather disrupt mail transportation.
…
>Mail delays have spiked across the country and performance has been particularly poor in areas piloting the new network structure, leading DeJoy to apologize and promise improvements. He added, however, that his efforts will bear fruit if given appropriate time.
>“It’s easy to criticize when you show up at the crime scene and see the damage, but the path there is long and people are working very hard to change minds and hearts in terms of how we perform,” the postmaster general said.
>A recent inspector general report found the standing up of a new RPDC in Richmond, Virginia, led to worse service, an uninformed public, decreased employee availability and a spike in late and canceled mail transportation trips.
>The changes have caused “additional labor and transportation costs, and it is uncertain if expected savings will be achieved,” the IG said. Previous IG reports have found prior efforts to consolidate facilities led USPS to perform worse while realizing just a tiny fraction of the cost reductions it had anticipated.
Weird to admit he’s causing a crime scene.
It’s in the name.
“Service”
Eh… seems like this is just an example of rural America getting the policies that they, themselves, voted for. Providing rural services costs many more tax dollars per resident than providing these same services to urban areas. And god knows rural Americas hate handouts. Thats socialism.
Why isn’t dejoy a criminal in jail yet? This guy tried to subvert the election!!
I live in a semi-rural area..when I order Amazon it would be here the within 2 days…now I get USPS notification it will be 3…then 4 days..You can’t tell me asshat isn’t the cause of this..
I really hate it when Republican attacks on our government are characterized as reform. That’s like taking a sledgehammer to someone’s leg and calling it physical therapy.
I miss the days when I didn’t even know who the postmaster general was, because they weren’t drawing attention to themselves by dismantling the USPS to enable fascist coups in our country.
How soon till we can oust this mobster?
The post office is a service mandated in the constitution itself. It is simply abhorrent that the Republicans are trying to destroy it by insisting that it be “profitable”. No one demands that any other mandated government service turn a profit.
You gotta hand it to the GOP; they think ahead. DeJoy was brought in around May 2020, IMO for the sole purpose of fucking with the ‘24 election via delayed or lost mail-in ballots.
We all know he’s trying for the same plan as before….delay and slow mail-in voting as much as possible and to make the case that the USPS should be privatized.
That’s why this guy is at the USPS.
Say it with me now, the USPS is a branch of service, they do not need to turn a profit. They do exceptionally well despite being dicked with for 30 years, and the only thing we need to do is get rid of Dejoy and let them be.
JIT (Just In Time) Logistics strategies has failed due to DeJoy
DeJoy already violates ethics code for Federal employees due to his stock holdings. He should be forced to divest himself of his holdings or resign.
Shitty Slow walking full on privatization of everything. Greed is a hell of a drug.
Don’t send in your mail in ballot while he’s in command. Seems intentional to screw everything up before the next election
Congress originally set up the US Postal Service to be resistant to politics, but with the unintended consequence that when one party (Republicans) manages to install a political hack (DeJoy) as Postmaster General, those same protections make him nearly impossible to dislodge.
You think it’s bad now wait until it ballot mailing time.
DeJoy is a leftover from Trump’s poor decision making. Dump him ASAP and let’s get our mail system working properly.
Mail carrier here. DeJoys system has changed up the truck logistics in our area to where our truck with out DPS(machine sorted letters) will arrive. Our post offices answer? Leave without the mail and deliver what shows up later the next day.
I’m so embarassed when customers ask me “why hasn’t (said letter) shown up yet?
Our mail service in Montana has been terrible ever since DeJoy took over the USPS, we really need to get rid of him.
DeJoy is a top tier moron. How is this guy in charge of anything.
Fuck DeJoy!
Didn’t see this in the comments so I think we need to start this trend.
Justification? That’s easy.
Anger the hicks.
An angry hick votes Republican, cause Look What Biden Did.
Trump’s legacy continues to “deconstruct the administrative state. Want to kill the United States? Just vote Republicans into office.
It’s not just Dejoy all the managers are complicit in his plan and their plan is to disrupt the election.
Hey Anonymous, surely you have a few emails you can share??
That’s why trump appointed him. If conservatives can keep convincing poor Americans that the government isn’t working for them, conservatives can continue the privatization of every aspect of life until corporations have control of everything.
I live in rural Montana and we already have issues with inconsistent USPS. this would just add to our issues. UPS has enacted similar rural practices. Used to deliver to us 5 days a week and now it’s only three days and we’re never sure what those days will be.
As long as we’re okay supporting the USPS budget, everybody can have Amazon quick delivery.
Why is DeJoy still in charge of anything in government? How to prune this sandbagging dipshit?
Why is he still there????
The Postal Service has only gotten worse since Dejoy, a Trump appointee, took over. Mail that originated in Jacksonville (going to Orlando) sometimes travels to the Carolinas or Indiana or God only knows where, before it finally comes back to Florida and gets to Orlando. And that happens frequently.
OR- we could wake up tomorrow and he’s died of a heart attack
Imagine a person with shares in FedEx trying to privitize a competitor. So crazy! 😡
JFC if you can’t fire this asshole arrest him.
Either the USPS is a service and should not be required to make a profit, or it is a private company that should be able to set prices to be competitive to make a profit.
Republicans have insisted it should be profitable while not allowing the USPS to compete with other private shipping and mail services, and while requiring more investment for pensions that aren’t required for any other entity
Biden should fire the republicans on the Board that controls DeJoy’s job, for dereliction of duty in permitting DeJoy to sabotage the USPS. It’s unconscionable that this is still happening when there’s a democrat in the White House.
Or put USPS back in the Cabinet and we can go from there
Why can’t they hire a new contractor person, then 90 days later tell him his job is redundant and he is no longer needed? That’s what normal companies do.
“Reform” more like deform.