National treasure, Katie Porter, grades Louis DeJoy's performance as Postmaster.

[ffr]

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.

Link to tweet

December 8th cannot come soon enough!

[secondwind]

1. Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PDT69]

2. What happens on the 8th?

[ffr]

5. USPS board will get two new members on that date. Expect Biden to appoint two liberals.

IIRC.

[Me.]

6. And Will Ron Bloom Be Gone?

[wryter2000]

3. Is December 8 when he goes?

I cannot wait.

[Grasswire2]

22. unless Biden gives him another "HOLDOVER TERM"...i

...as some say he has requested. In reading the law, it seems clear that he should not be granted another HOLDOVER YEAR, as the law says a member may only serve two terms, and he served the remainder of one term that was a vacancy, and then was granted the HOLDOVER YEAR by Trump (that would be his second term).

Biden has already appointed three diverse member who are now Senate confirmed. As other seats become open, Biden will fill them, as well.

[Skittles]

4. I fear for Katie's daughter when she becomes a teenager

can you imagine Katie bringing out the white boards to make a point

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Teenager? I'd imagine that started when the kid was like 2 and a half

[Traildogbob]

9. The daughter?

What about the guy coming to pick her up for a date. The pre Prom white board session.😰😰🥺🥺

[Skittles]

12. now you're talking!

HAHAHAHA

[Rebl2]

8. Oddly my

mail order prescriptions have arrived in a timely manner and so has the rest of my mail for the most part. Magazines a little late sometimes and had a piece of election mail arrive the day of the election-so what’s new. My bills that get mailed have arrived on time. I also thought Social Security checks had to be direct deposit now?

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. Maybe that is a regional thing

I've noticed I get a lot less mail, and some is timely some is not.

The worst is what they did to Netflix. I used to be able to turn around 2 disks per week, now I can put one in the mail on Monday and sometimes don't get the next one until Tuesday or Wednesday of the following week. It's added over a week to the former turnaround time. I'd drop it, but some things are only on disk, not streaming.

Painful process or not, DeJoy's removal should have been started last January.

[skydive forever]

18. You're not wrong

But Biden had a LOT on his plate right then. As always, it’s going to be a lot of work to undo what TFG did to us.

[hermetic]

11. Mailed a birthday card to my son

back in March, 2 weeks prior to his bday. It had to travel straight across 4 states. It took 30 DAYS! I had enclosed a check which I stopped payment on after 2 weeks. That cost me $25. I've decided to mail all my Christmas cards next week.

[rurallib]

13. listening to Thom Hartmann today I was reminded of the Republican scheme

to bankrupt the USPS by forcing them to fund retirement and healthcare(as I recall) 75 years in the future.

They did this so the USPS could not fund a massive purchase of electric vehicles.

Congress needs to address this also. Be nice if DeJoy's departure was timed to go with getting rid of that damned plan to bankrupt the USPS.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I Need To See The Financials

I have a suspicion that all these service reduction moves, that supposedly were about cost efficiency, have done nothing significant toward that goal.
We've known the whole time that the biggest contributor to any financial issues was the stupid pension funding mandate. That hasn't changed.
So, I beoieve dejoy is ruining the primary mission of USPS, but not driving efficiency in either operations or financial matter.
This is, IMO, enough reason to dismiss him. Shear incompetence is reason to launch him.

[left-of-center2012]

15. Social Security checks are not mailed

“seniors to scramble to pay bills without their Social Security checks”

“If you get Social Security benefits,
you must receive your payments electronically. You can do so by signing up for direct deposit, which sends payments directly into your bank account. Or, you can have your benefits automatically deposited into your Direct Express® Debit MasterCard® account.”

https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10073.pdf

[TexasTowelie]

20. I did receive my back pay and the payment for the first month in the form of paper checks.

However, everything is being processed electronically now.

[C Moon]

16. He should be tried and put in prison.

If any of us did something like that, we'd have been hauled away a LONG time ago.

[gratuitous]

17. So many agencies saw their performance suffer in the four years before Biden

The Postal Service was doing quite all right until the former guy's appointee was put in charge. FEMA - believe it or not - used to be a sterling agency, responsive to disasters and effecting in providing relief. Then George W. Bush got into the White House. It made a bit of a comeback during the Obama years, but slipped again badly under the former guy.

It's just uncanny how badly government programs operate when Republicans are running them.

[Dan]

19. I can't wait until Katie runs for President.... She's the best!!!

[Kid Berwyn]

23. She'd make an excellent President.

Great for veep, too.

[moondust]

21. Profits?

Old Cynic wonders if he has slowed mail delivery deliberately to help his (top 1 percent) creditor/banker pals collect more late fees and thereby amass "profits" faster.

[Blue Owl]

24. A big fat "F"

As in "Fuck you DeJoystick"