Just received a Christmas card postmarked Dec. 20.

[Grasswire2]

Mailed in Illinois, delivered here on West Coast Feb. 8.

Someone in the Senate is holding up confirmation of Biden's most recent nomination to the USPS Board of Governors.

DeJoy can't be fired until all members are confirmed, and the Board can vote to do so.

What are the odds that it's Cruz holding it up?

[lindysalsagal]

1. Merry Christmas!

[Grasswire2]

2. yes

For my daughter here, and it contained a $100 gift card.

We assumed someone had nabbed it somewhere along the line, having been told there was a gift card inside. Probably not the best way to send it.

[lagomorph777]

3. Schumer and Biden need to name and shame any Senator holding up the US Mail.

[questionseverything]

4. Dejoy should of been fired when the first box of dead chicks showed up

Slowing the mail is a felony

[Grasswire2]

10. DeJoy could not be fired by Biden, by law.

The Board of Governors has to do it.

Biden has cleaned out and replaced Trump holdovers as their terms expired.

The last appointment is being held up by someone in Senate.

[questionseverything]

13. Sorry i don't buy that

Dejoy is openly committing felonys

The president is in charge of enforcing the law

Arrest him for deliberately slowing the mail

[Grasswire2]

14. It is the law. The President cannot fire the Postmaster General.

Democrats obey laws.

Are you sure you're in the right place?

[questionseverything]

16. So if dejoy decided to gun down someone is he still above the law?

The felony for slowing mail was in place long before repubs dreamed up this board to neuter the president

I will just ignore the insult

[Grasswire2]

17. I'm sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about.

I suggest you go read the federal laws and regulations regarding the Board of Governors and the Postmaster General.

[link:https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/|

[former9thward]

18. Biden has three appointees already serving on the Board of Governors.

Those three, along with the rest of the Board, voted in December to install a new Chairman. The new Chair supports DeJoy.

[Grasswire2]

19. maybe you will accept the word of Senator Whitehouse, from 2/4

[link:https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/whitehouse-calls-for-confirmation-of-usps-board-of-governors-nominees-to-address-major-operational-problems-under-postmaster-general-dejoy|


WHITEHOUSE CALLS FOR CONFIRMATION OF USPS BOARD OF GOVERNORS NOMINEES TO ADDRESS MAJOR OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS UNDER POSTMASTER GENERAL DEJOY
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today called for speedy approval of the two pending nominees to the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, citing an urgent need for a change in leadership at the agency. Whitehouse’s call comes after a new report that the EPA and the White House Council on Environmental Quality have warned USPS that its plan to replace its massive fleet with thousands of polluting gas-powered delivery vehicles does not comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. The USPS fleet makes up about one third of all government vehicles.

“The Postal Service urgently needs a change in leadership,” said Whitehouse. “Under Postmaster General DeJoy, the Postal Service is actively choosing to ignore science and the law in order to make sure one of the world’s largest fleets of government vehicles continues to be a major source of pollution. Postmaster General DeJoy has messed around with our mail system for too long and he’s caused real harm to the Americans who rely on it. This cannot continue.”

The nine-seat USPS Board of Governors has the sole authority to remove the Postmaster General, who was appointed by the previous administration. President Biden put forth two nominees in November, but they have not yet been confirmed, leaving the Board under the control of a Republican-appointed Chair.

Press Contact
Meaghan McCabe, [phone]

[former9thward]

20. That statement says nothing.

What about the three Biden appointments that are already there? Who voted for the new DeJoy supporting Chairman? And one of the two Biden nominees awaiting a hearing is a Republican. The math is not there.

[Grasswire2]

22. sigh

By law, the Board may not have more than five members appointed by one political party.

By law, a complete board is nine members.

By law, Biden could not fire DeJoy.

The most he could do is fill the Board seats, which then must be confirmed by the Senate. And then the completed, confirmed Board could vote to fire DeJoy.

And Senator Whitehouse says TWO of the nominees have not yet been confirmed.

Nor have nominees for many State Department posts been confirmed. But that's a whole other story and the buck stops with Ted Cruz.

I suggest that you go to the link I posted, and read the rules and laws.

[former9thward]

23. I suggest you follow your own advice and read the rules.

Either a D or R Senator has the hold. If it was Cruz then Schumer could call for a cloture vote which only requires 51 votes. Then the nominations could be moved to the floor and since it is a presidential appointment it would only require 51 votes. If it is a D Senator then Schumer is respecting an ally's wishes. It is probably a D Senator.

[Grasswire2]

24. Go talk to Senator Whitehouse.

It isn't doing any good for you to argue about things here.

Take it somewhere useful.

[Blue Owl]

5. DeJoy to the World, the mail has come...

[Scrivener7]

6. And it's looking like DeJoy is never going away.

[area51]

21. +1 n/t

[MyOwnPeace]

7. NOT DEFENDING DeJoy..............

The USPS has been having problems for years, long before the past MIS-ADMINISTRATION. We must admit that.
However, the appointment of DeJoy and his 'mission' was terrible timing. Was it to 'improve' postal service - or was it to just F**K with the mail-in voting?

And his own arrogance has done nothing to win any support for him either. Just based on THAT I'd kick his A$$ out!!!!

We DO need him gone - if for no other reason it would be his arrogance regarding what his mission is and who he is serving -and we DO need a Board of Governors that can act in a non-political way that can and will provide a necessary postal SERVICE - something that is so basically fundamental and essential to our country.

Among all of the things Joe has to fix, yeah, this is one of them!

[Grasswire2]

11. Joe did fix it, under the law.

But some Senator is holding up confirmation of his last appointee to the Postal Board of Governors, and ONLY that Board can fire him.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Cancel the traitor.

Return to sender.

[Emile]

9. Cruz filibustering this too?

[PSPS]

12. It spent the winter in dejoy's attic

[maxsolomon]

15. I got one last week.

Postmarked around the same time. 'Twas amusing.

I imagine it fell out of a cart and went under a table or something, and they haven't had time to straighten up till now.