Dear John,

Years after the end of the Trump administration, the U.S. Postal Service continues to suffer under the anti-leadership of Trump’s Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy.

You no doubt recall DeJoy’s happy decommissioning of thousands of mail pickup sites just in time to be unavailable for vote-by-mail in the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost anyway.

DeJoy has an established if unenviable track record of increasing mail prices under his leadership while delivery has slowed down. It’s all part of his 10-year plan to privatize and destroy the Post Office.

After DeJoy cut over 30 million hours of staffing over just the last year, and reduced the wages of two-thirds of rural mail carriers, those who remain are delivering mail in record-breaking heat waves in trucks with no air conditioning. Several postal workers have died of heat-related illnesses in the past two years.

At this point we have had enough of DeJoy, but President Biden cannot fire him on his own. The Postmaster General serves at the pleasure of the USPS Board of Governors, which currently includes two Trump administration holdovers who are allies of DeJoy.

Sign the petition to tell President Biden: The time has come to appoint two new USPS governors who will be willing to fire and replace Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General.

DeJoy has increased the price for delivering local newspapers by one third, posing an existential threat to papers already weakened by online news options. But DeJoy refuses any oversight, instead moving to shut down debate altogether.  

In order to save the USPS and retain access to our mail service, DeJoy must go.

President Biden must make sure the next two nominations to the Postal Board of Governors are prepared to fire the Postmaster General, in order to protect the USPS and preserve its status as a cherished public service.

Sign and send a direct message to the White House calling on President Biden to nominate the two new members to the USPS Board of Governors needed to fire Louis DeJoy and expand postal services.

Thank you for drawing the president’s attention to this important concern.

Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action