Throughout the pandemic, postal workers have been among the most essential employees—working tirelessly to deliver medication, ballots, letters, and checks.

But the leadership of the USPS slowed the mail during the election, and postal workers and the essential mail service we all rely on suffered badly.

In March 2021, DeJoy submitted a plan that would make things even worse, lengthening first-class delivery windows and cutting service hours. The Washington Post called it the "largest rollback of consumer mail services in a generation."³

And now we learn that a covert arm of the U.S. Postal Service is monitoring our social media accounts, handing information about protests and other dissenting activity to other departments of the government.⁴

It's long past time for DeJoy to go. But some Democrats on the nine-member board that has the power to fire him have voiced support for him.⁵ We need to make sure that Biden's nominees are confirmed by the Senate, and we must keep the heat on the board and demand that it replace DeJoy.

Demand Progress is waging a grassroots offensive to get Louis DeJoy fired and replaced with someone who believes in the simple, universal promise of the U.S. Postal Service. Will you chip in?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

Sources:

1. Yahoo! News, "The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts," April 21, 2021
2. The Washington Post, "Meet Biden's Postal Service nominees, who could add pressure on Louis DeJoy," April 21, 2020
3. The San Diego Tribune, "USPS chief DeJoy said to cut post office hours, lengthen delivery times in 10-year-plan," March 23, 2021
4. Yahoo! News, "The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts," April 21, 2021
5. ABC News, "Biden's USPS board nominees aren't likely to oust embattled postmaster DeJoy, insiders say," April 22, 2021