The Trump guy that President Biden has allowed to stay in office is back at it….
He’s been in brush-ops with Congress in his efforts to cut back postal delivers for Rural America,,,,
He’s about to get into again….
“At the end of the day, I think some portion of the mail showing up 12 hours later, I think it’s a price that had to be paid for letting this place be neglected,” DeJoy said. “You look around every other country, [delivery] is longer, it’s much more expensive. We’re trying to save the Postal Service — not figuratively, not to advocate for something. We’re trying to literally save the Postal Service.”
DeJoy said the new policy would not be implemented until after November’s elections. The Postal Service filed plans Thursday with its regulator to hold public hearings to solicit feedback on the proposed changes.
Four years ago, similar cost-cutting moves prompted litigation over fears voting would be disrupted. Ultimately, the agency helped nearly half of all 2020 voters request or cast ballots by mail, according to the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project.
In the plans under discussion, the Postal Service would allow mail and packages to sit at certain facilities for an extra day instead of transporting them immediately for processing and delivery, DeJoy said. That would extend acceptable delivery times for mail traveling longer distances….
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The Postal Service is still reeling from the aftermath of mail slowdowns around the 2020 election. In a drive to cut costs and improve operations, DeJoy-led initiatives snarled mail processing nationwide, with changes that experts say jeopardized ballot access for tens of millions of Americans.
The Postal Service faced a bevy of lawsuits over the 2020 policies and ultimately took “extraordinary measures” that saw nearly 98 percent of ballots delivered from voters to election officials within three days. The agency has generally won praise for its handling of ballots in numerous elections since….
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The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee also rebuked parts of DeJoy’s 10-year plan, writing that it was “deeply concerned about the potential negative impacts on mail service to the American people, customer satisfaction, and cost overruns.”
DeJoy in an interview shot back that lawmakers were “out of their league” with their critiques of the agency.
“They don’t understand the business. Nobody knows what it takes to compete with FedEx and UPS and drives billions of dollars of cost out of here that’s in the critique business. Even though it’s Congress, they don’t know,” DeJoy said….
Note….
Congress CAN reorganize the Postal Service anytime it wants…..