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Nevilledog

(51,186 posts)
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:22 PM Jan 2021

Louis DeJoy to Postal Service employees: "As we begin the new year, I want us to set a new tone..."



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Louis DeJoy to Postal Service employees: "As we begin the new year, I want us to set a new tone..." (Original Post) Nevilledog Jan 2021 OP
DeJoyless needs to be prosecuted for his role in the election MagickMuffin Jan 2021 #1
Like maybe delivering the f*cking mail on time? The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2021 #2
Louis DisGrace YDogg Jan 2021 #3
The kind of tone Dagstead Bumwood Jan 2021 #4
Since his term is set to run for a long time, halfulglas Jan 2021 #5
I hope FeelingBlue Jan 2021 #12
Incompetence is the ticket and I would bet if he is investigated the DOJ...will find dirt on this Demsrule86 Jan 2021 #26
How is this a job you he can't be fired from?... lame54 Jan 2021 #6
He can be fired by the USPS' board of directors. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2021 #10
Time for a Godfather moment "take care of Pauli" for Mr. DeJoy ... not taken out into the weeds ... Botany Jan 2021 #7
Biden/Kamala need to fix this as soon as it can get fixed. It's a friggin' mess!!! BComplex Jan 2021 #8
Biden should replace the Board of Governors and get rid of the treasonous ass dalton99a Jan 2021 #9
Throw the bum out!!!!! He doesn't need this job anyway, he already got what he wanted.... secondwind Jan 2021 #11
This from Wikipedia OnDoutside Jan 2021 #13
A good change in tone would be for his mafia ass to go Captain Zero Jan 2021 #14
If I read the Wikipedia article correctly, of the 9 board members OnDoutside Jan 2021 #15
Carrier pidgen might be faster occupant Jan 2021 #16
This has been the worse month for late mail that I have ever experienced. Bills, checks not even katmondoo Jan 2021 #17
DeJoy seems to think he can continue on with a career as the Postmaster General. PufPuf23 Jan 2021 #18
18 U.S. Code § 1701 - Obstruction of mails generally mackdaddy Jan 2021 #19
I mailed my property tax around the 20th of December, it was just deposited yesterday MiniMe Jan 2021 #20
I am hoping they have asked around marlakay Jan 2021 #21
Why is he still bdamomma Jan 2021 #22
Believe it or not Deuxcents Jan 2021 #23
I believe it Generic Brad Jan 2021 #27
Yeah, his sorry ass should be fired. roamer65 Jan 2021 #24
A DeJoyless tone, hopefully Blue Owl Jan 2021 #25

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,650 posts)
4. The kind of tone
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:27 PM
Jan 2021

where you don't rightly storm my office and toss my wholly unqualified, sycophant ass right out a GD window.

halfulglas

(1,654 posts)
5. Since his term is set to run for a long time,
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:30 PM
Jan 2021

He should be able to be fired for incompetence, since it might be hard to get direct evidence to charge him with election interference, although we all know that was the purpose of his orders that screwed up delivery. The Christmas check that my friend sent her son in Florida Dec. 14 just got there last week.

Demsrule86

(68,643 posts)
26. Incompetence is the ticket and I would bet if he is investigated the DOJ...will find dirt on this
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 07:36 PM
Jan 2021

guy. Also, launch investigations of the board that hired him..dirt there you just know it.

lame54

(35,317 posts)
6. How is this a job you he can't be fired from?...
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:33 PM
Jan 2021

How is his incompetence and deliberate obstruction/destruction allowed?

Why is this position automatically tenured?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,829 posts)
10. He can be fired by the USPS' board of directors.
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:35 PM
Jan 2021

There are currently two openings on the nine-member-maximum board. If Biden fills those openings it might be possible to get enough votes on the board to sack him.

Botany

(70,567 posts)
7. Time for a Godfather moment "take care of Pauli" for Mr. DeJoy ... not taken out into the weeds ...
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:33 PM
Jan 2021

... and whacked (leave the gun take the cannoli) but fired and if they can't fire him he needs an
office in the basement with no windows and nothing to do.

Sonny Corleone, "Take care of the son of bitch ... make it first thing in the morning ... Pauli he set up the
old man."

Why does DeJoy still have a job? He had high speed mail sorting machines cut up and put into dumpsters.



BComplex

(8,060 posts)
8. Biden/Kamala need to fix this as soon as it can get fixed. It's a friggin' mess!!!
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 04:35 PM
Jan 2021

They're going to have to fire the board of governors, and un-do the legislation that says the post office has to fund their retirement accounts for like...forever.

OnDoutside

(19,969 posts)
13. This from Wikipedia
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 05:09 PM
Jan 2021

The board directs "the exercise of the power" of the Postal Service, controls its expenditures and reviews its practices and policies.[3] It consists of 11 members, 6 are requisite to achieve an ordinary quorum. Of the 11 board members, 9 are the presidentially appointed governors, 1 is the postmaster general, and 1 is the deputy postmaster general. The 9 governors elect the postmaster general, the chairman of the board as well as the USPS inspector general; the governors and the postmaster general elect the deputy postmaster general. No more than five governors may be adherents of the same political party. The board also has the power to remove all of these officers.

OnDoutside

(19,969 posts)
15. If I read the Wikipedia article correctly, of the 9 board members
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 05:16 PM
Jan 2021

there are currently 4 Republican governors and 1 Democratic governor, as the second appears to have finished his term in December. If that's the case, Biden can appoint FOUR governors to bring the board back up to 9 and a 5 to 4 Democratic majority.

 

occupant

(166 posts)
16. Carrier pidgen might be faster
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 05:18 PM
Jan 2021

Post Office needs a change, asap! Took four weeks for a pkg to go from USPS at my house to Amazon. Took my gas bill over a week to go to cincinnati from north Detroit, making my bill late. Bullshit! I hope Biden can act on this soon...

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)
17. This has been the worse month for late mail that I have ever experienced. Bills, checks not even
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 05:30 PM
Jan 2021

junk mail. Days with an empty mail box.

PufPuf23

(8,822 posts)
18. DeJoy seems to think he can continue on with a career as the Postmaster General.
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 05:32 PM
Jan 2021

That violates the must-be-rational test of the job description.

Fellow should be investigated to see the extent of his sabotage in the name of Trump.

mackdaddy

(1,528 posts)
19. 18 U.S. Code § 1701 - Obstruction of mails generally
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 05:39 PM
Jan 2021
18 U.S. Code § 1701 - Obstruction of mails generally
Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 778; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)


No-one, ever, had done as much as DeJoy to "retard the passage of the mail".

Prosecute the SOB and then jail him and he can be fired for cause.

MiniMe

(21,718 posts)
20. I mailed my property tax around the 20th of December, it was just deposited yesterday
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 06:29 PM
Jan 2021

Don't know what happened to it, I was getting nervous.

Deuxcents

(16,314 posts)
23. Believe it or not
Sat Jan 23, 2021, 06:51 PM
Jan 2021

I got a Christmas card last week post marked December 14. I don’t blame the Carriers..the blame is squarely on this incompetent n spiteful DeJoy. Let’s get this fixed..

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