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John,
Louis DeJoy is still at it, boldly implementing his plans to wreck the U.S. Postal Service in order to privatize it.
He openly brags about his 10-year plan to make “dramatic changes,” but he keeps the details secret. No need for postal regulators to know what is coming!
Asked by House Oversight Committee member Rep. Summer Lee about why he has filed an objection to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s formal inquiry into his plans, DeJoy testified the commission “has overstepped its authority” and that such oversight “is going to put this whole plan in jeopardy.”
Exactly.
No one but DeJoy knows all the details, but we do know this much: he intends to eliminate 200 postal annexes and cut 50,000 jobs, increasing costs to citizens and delaying mail delivery. And, with years of early implementation started under the Trump and Biden administrations, his plans are already underway.
We need public discussion over how DeJoy’s radical plans will affect local communities and jobs. Tell the USPS Inspector General and the Postal Regulatory Commission to step in and allow public feedback on Louis DeJoy’s “dramatic changes” now!
Consolidating the processing centers is a first step, making it easier to shut them down and privatize them in the future.
DeJoy’s already-announced cuts to the delivery network will be especially devastating for rural and Indigenous communities, who rely on the Postal Service to receive medications, social security checks and vote-by-mail ballots.
These vulnerable communities are at risk of being either overcharged or ignored by for-profit delivery services like FedEx and UPS, that don’t find such areas to be profitable enough. Indeed, private companies often rely on the Postal Service for “last-mile-delivery,” because USPS is required to deliver to everyone -- not to make profits for wealthy shareholders, but to maintain connections between people in a free country.
So what further plans does DeJoy have up his sleeve? How will they affect local communities and postal workers? We don’t know, because his intention is to keep the public out of the review process until it’s too late to stop him.
We can’t let Louis DeJoy destroy the Postal Service. There is too much at stake.
Sign the petition now to tell the USPS Inspector General and Postal Regulatory Commission to allow public hearings, get the plans out in the open, and allow the public to make our views known.
Thank you for your commitment to keep the U.S. Postal Service in service to the people, and not just to wealthy corporate privateers.
- Amanda
Amanda Ford, Director
Democracy for America
Advocacy Fund
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