The Washington Post is out with story about the guy giving a government contract to a company that his family has a connection to….
Let’s face it….
President Biden does NOT want to get rid of the guy….
I have NO idea WHY?
But ?
The guy IS serving at the President’s pleasure….
And he IS working to outsource Post Office assets and service’s….
And his old working people and family are making money on this…..
“He comes from a company that made much of its fortune working as one of the places where the Postal Service had outsourced work,” said Steve Hutkins, the founder and editor of the Save The Post Office blog, which has tracked the agency since 2011. “He knows all about outsourcing postal work to private industry. He was one of them.”
Under the new Postal Service contract, XPO will take over two “surface transfer centers” that organize mail shipments and load them on trucks.
The Postal Service struck the deal with XPO in April, but did not publicly discuss the agreement until late June. The agency will contract out work in four more facilities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, western Massachusetts and New Jersey in the coming months.
In each case, according to a presentation agency executives made in June before a postal stakeholder group, the Postal Service will relocate operations to buildings that can accommodate more package-sorting machines.
Close to a dozen employees in each facility will move to the new buildings to manage the work of XPO contract workers, union officials involved in the moves said.
The plans have sparked renewed fears of privatization, long a boogeyman in mailing policy debates. The Trump administration in 2018 recommended transitioning the Postal Service “from a government agency into a privately held corporation.”
But those positions have mostly been rejected by congressional Republicans whose constituents in rural and suburban areas require postal services more than those in liberal-leaning urban ones.
Adams, the Postal Service spokesman, said that the Postal Service’s commitment to operating as a public entity was reinforced by DeJoy’s 10-year plan.
“The U.S. Postal Service does not believe in and has not advanced the idea that it should operate as a private entity. In fact, we have advanced the opposite idea,” he said. “To carry out our universal service mission, and given our role as a fundamental part of the nation’s critical infrastructure, we believe that we must remain an integral part of the United States government.”
Dena Briscoe, president of the American Postal Workers Union branch for Washington and Southern Maryland, said contracting out the work felt like a “slap in the face” to her union’s members.
“This is the work that they’ve been doing for years and years and years,” she said, “and you’re going to segregate it away from them, put in another building, give it to a company that previously had a [top executive] that is now our postmaster general. A lot of our members are taking offense to that.”…
DeJoy is planning to slow First Class mail deliveries as of October also….
U.S. Postal Service on Friday finalized a plan to slow down some first-class mail deliveries as part of an initiative to cut down red ink, Reuters reported.
The plan, which will go into effect on Oct. 1, will revise the existing one- to three-day service standards to one to five days. The postal service will keep 61 percent of the mail at its current standard, according to the news outlet.
Delivery service will also be slower for about 7 percent of periodicals….
More…
It’s not as easy as Biden just firing him.
The postal service is a quasi independent agency.
The President can dismiss him but only for “cause,” not just like a political appointee.
Either Biden doesn’t believe he has sufficient provable “cause” or it’s simply not a fight he wants to engage in at this time.
The decision to hire the Postmaster-General for a fixed term is given to the bipartisan Postal Service Board of Governors, where at least one of the Democratic appointees finds DeJoy satisfactory or at least acceptable.
I’m not sure if the Governors, if they wanted to, could just change the PMG at will or would need cause.
And, although the US Postal Service (unlike the old Post Office Department) is independent of the Cabinet, I think that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that any Federal worker outside the Congress and the court system comes under the authority of the Executive Branch (i.e. the President). So I’m unclear as to what powers Joe Biden would have independent of the Postal Service Board of Governors.
Further reading leads me to believe that the President probably can’t “fire” Dejoy at all.
Apparently he might be able to replace some of the Board of Governors who then could theoretically dismiss him..
Anyway,I’m not particularly surprised that Biden doesn’t enter this fight at this time.
DeJoy…..
After a little thought on this guy I’m of this view…..
President Biden CAN fire the guy anytime he wants….
Like DSD pointed out ….
Trump got the Supreme ‘s to clear the FACT that EVERYBODY in the executive branch serves at the President’s pleasure …
The ‘with cause’ thing is bull shit….
He picks his nose?
Anything could be ‘with cause”
Biden could fire the board if he wanted to…I believe he’s added few already…DeJoy is STILL there….
Look?
Trump proved his point with the firing of FBI Director Comey and the IG’s….
With that?
I have come to believe that President Joe Biden WANTS Lou DeJoy to keep his job because he and his people WANT there to be cuts in the size and mission of the Postal Service…
Since the Service has all this red ink for Congress over capitalising their pension system and THEY won’t change that?
The President is seeking other cuts to system …
The media focus on the the guys ties to the outsourcing companies seem to mean nothing ….
One could assume Garland has been told to leave it alone….
Meanwhile another Trump appointee–as assistant AG– who thankfully no longer has a job haz stated that votes were changed from Trump to Biden via thermostat by the Chinese. Yeah that sounds reasonable.
Haley Byrd Wilt
@byrdinator
We just received a Christmas card someone sent us in December in the mail
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Rep. Katie Porter
@RepKatiePorter
On-time mail delivery has plummeted under Postmaster Louis DeJoy—forcing veterans to wait longer for prescriptions, seniors to scramble to pay bills without their Social Security checks, and communities to feel less connected.
Postmaster DeJoy needs to go.
(DeJoy seems to have President Biden blessing to keep his job…)