John,



Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is testifying right now before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. And he sure has a lot to answer for.

Just this morning, CREW published an investigation showing that DeJoy’s old company, XPO Logistics, got a USPS contract to help address the rush to send mail over the holidays. We don’t know if DeJoy has fully divested his interest in the company yet, so the fact that he could have profited from USPS contracts that were awarded after he became postmaster general raises serious ethics questions.

It’s not acceptable that while many Americans were waiting for their holiday packages to arrive (many of them weeks late), DeJoy’s former company was profiting from the chaos he caused at the postal service.

But it gets worse: CREW also obtained records of a Republican Senate memo that attribute overtime cuts at USPS directly to Louis DeJoy. That’s a big deal, because DeJoy denied—under oath—that he was behind the overtime cuts over the summer.

It appeared during DeJoy’s testimony before Congress in August that he was misleading the public about his role in the restructuring of USPS before the election, and these records give us more evidence that he was. As a government official, he should have no problem telling the American people which plans he is putting in place and why.

Since DeJoy apparently refuses to be truthful, we are forced to wonder whether his financial interest in a competitor or his political allegiance to Trump—he was a Trump donor and ally when he got the job—have affected his leadership of the postal service. It sure looks like they have.

We’re watching DeJoy’s testimony closely for answers to these questions and more. But one thing is already abundantly clear: Louis DeJoy’s time as postmaster general has been disastrous. Even as questions remain about his testimony to Congress and his conflicts of interest, we know he does not deserve the role of postmaster general. We’re demanding his resignation, now.

Thank you for standing with us,


Noah Bookbinder
President, CREW

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