Hi,
It’s mystifying, but true: Trump mega-donor Louis DeJoy still hasn’t been
fired as head of the U.S. Postal Service.
In fact, he's just announced his latest awful idea.
This month, he’ll start shutting down services at more than 200 locations.
How many post offices will be closed? How much will this delay mail
delivery? DeJoy isn’t saying … yet.^1
It’s all part of DeJoy’s 10-year scheme to raise prices, cut 50,000 jobs,
and slow delivery times.
Enough is enough. It’s past time to fire Louis DeJoy and end his attacks
on the Post Office.
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A holdover from the Trump administration, DeJoy has already made a host of
decisions to make the Post Office worse.
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, as an unprecedented
number of voters prepared to vote by mail because of the pandemic, DeJoy
ordered cuts to overtime and presided over the removal of nearly 700
high-speed mail sorters.^2 He’s resisted the transition to electric
vehicles at every turn.^3 And his widely condemned 10-year plan includes
eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.^4
And this month begins DeJoy’s “Great Consolidation,” forcing mail carriers
to travel farther to pick up the mail they’ll deliver and creating more
carbon pollution.^5
It’s outrageous that DeJoy is still hanging around nearly two years since
President Joe Biden was elected. But the good news is that polls show that
the U.S. Postal Service is one of the most popular government agencies in
existence. If we can generate enough public attention about all the harm
DeJoy is doing, we can finally get rid of him.
Demand Progress has driven in more than 200,000 signatures to Congress and
the White House urging them to act. We’ve helped ensure that Biden
appointees now control the board that can fire DeJoy. Now it's time to
finish the job.
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up the heat to get rid of Louis DeJoy and save the Post Office?
With gratitude for all you do,
Tihi and the team at Demand Progress Action
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Sources:
1. Common Dreams, "'A True Danger to the Public Post Office': DeJoy Moves
to Consolidate USPS Facilities," [ [link removed] ]August 27, 2022.
2. HuffPost, "DeJoy Says Mail Sorting Machines Were Stripped For Parts And
Can't Be Reinstalled," [ [link removed] ]September 25, 2020.
3. The New York Times, "Democrats Want Investigation Into Postal Service’s
Gas Guzzlers Contract," [ [link removed] ]March 14, 2022.
4. Government Executive, "USPS Plans to Slash 50,000 Positions in Coming
Years to Reach 'Break Even' Point," [ [link removed] ]July 28, 2022.
5. Common Dreams, "'A True Danger to the Public Post Office': DeJoy Moves
to Consolidate USPS Facilities," [ [link removed] ]August 27, 2022.
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