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DeJoy's appointment as postmaster general looks even more dishonest than you thought
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-08-21/dejoy-appointment-postmaster-dishonestFor anyone concerned about the manifest slowdown of mail at the U.S. Postal Service or who watched the uninformative performance of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy before a Senate committee Friday, the following question has become more urgent:
How did this guy get his job?
Thus far, speculation about the appointment of DeJoy, who assumed his job in mid-June, has focused on his role as a major fundraiser for President Trump and the fact that he is the first postmaster general in some two decades to not have any experience with the USPS.
He didn’t strike me as a serious candidate.
FORMER USPS GOVERNOR DAVID WILLIAMS, ABOUT POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY
But congressional testimony this week by David Williams, a former USPS inspector general and former vice chairman of the service’s board of governors, put some meat on those bare bones.
Williams told the Congressional Progressive Caucus that he resigned from the USPS board when it became clear it was about to appoint DeJoy.
He says DeJoy’s name came to the board outside the normal route, which went through the headhunting firm Russell Reynolds. Instead it came from board member John M. Barger, a Southern California investment executive who was supervising the postmaster search.
Barger told the board he had had lunch with DeJoy and “wanted to move his name forward,” Williams said. “It wasn’t clear how [Barger] had met Mr. DeJoy to me, and I don’t think anyone was clear on it.”
Determining how DeJoy landed his post is important because of signs that the effectiveness of the USPS has crumbled in the roughly two months that he has been in charge.
If you want a picture of how badly service has been affected by management and policy changes imposed by DeJoy, my colleagues Laura J. Nelson and Maya Lau have spelled them out in an absolutely harrowing report about chaos on the postal floor.
How did this guy get his job?
Thus far, speculation about the appointment of DeJoy, who assumed his job in mid-June, has focused on his role as a major fundraiser for President Trump and the fact that he is the first postmaster general in some two decades to not have any experience with the USPS.
He didn’t strike me as a serious candidate.
FORMER USPS GOVERNOR DAVID WILLIAMS, ABOUT POSTMASTER GENERAL LOUIS DEJOY
But congressional testimony this week by David Williams, a former USPS inspector general and former vice chairman of the service’s board of governors, put some meat on those bare bones.
Williams told the Congressional Progressive Caucus that he resigned from the USPS board when it became clear it was about to appoint DeJoy.
He says DeJoy’s name came to the board outside the normal route, which went through the headhunting firm Russell Reynolds. Instead it came from board member John M. Barger, a Southern California investment executive who was supervising the postmaster search.
Barger told the board he had had lunch with DeJoy and “wanted to move his name forward,” Williams said. “It wasn’t clear how [Barger] had met Mr. DeJoy to me, and I don’t think anyone was clear on it.”
Determining how DeJoy landed his post is important because of signs that the effectiveness of the USPS has crumbled in the roughly two months that he has been in charge.
If you want a picture of how badly service has been affected by management and policy changes imposed by DeJoy, my colleagues Laura J. Nelson and Maya Lau have spelled them out in an absolutely harrowing report about chaos on the postal floor.
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And unimaginable effing rage! 
