U.S. Postal Chief Set to Release 10-Year Strategic Plan

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

Source: Reuters - U.S. News & World Report

By Reuters, Wire Service Content March 22, 2021, at 3:51 p.m.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is set to release a 10-year strategic plan as early as Tuesday expected to propose slowing delivery standards for some first-class mail as he seeks to put the money-losing U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on firmer financial footing, two people briefed on the matter said.

"I would suggest that we are on a death spiral," DeJoy a U.S. House committee in February. At a separate March 11 congressional hearing, DeJoy signaled some changes, including acknowledging his plan would revise existing service standards.

The current delivery standards are "not achievable," DeJoy said. "We cannot go to California from New York in three days without going on planes and we don't own planes."

A USPS spokesman declined to comment on the timing of the plan's release.



Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-03-22/us-postal-chief-set-to-release-10-year-strategic-plan

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Dastardly Don's destruction of democracy continues. Putin must be clapping his hands in glee.

[machoneman]

1. Review the plan, then fire his ass!

[Phoenix61]

2. Beat me to it. I can't imagine it's a decent plan

and if it is that he would carry it out. He just needs to go.

[rickyhall]

31. Easier. Fire his ass.

[Hoyt]

3. Despise DeJoy, but he's right about expecting the kind of stuff the postal service handles

nowadays -- mostly noncritical mail -- to go across country in 3 days for a lot less than a dollar.

Nor, can we continue to have the postal service crippled in making long-range plans because they have to beg Congress for a loan or grant every year, just to keep from threatening to shut down.

It's time for a long-range plan and Congressional action to modify the plan if necessary and figure out how to finance it -- options include increase postage substantially, cut some services, give the postal service a grant every year to cover whatever their budgetary shortfall is, discontinue requiring post office to account for accrued benefits just like almost every other organization in America, etc.

[zaj]

4. 2x BS: "he seeks to put the money-losing U.S. Postal Service on firmer financial footing"

He seeks to trigger a death-spiral in the Postal Service in order to raid the coffers of the only government agency with an actual revenue model.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Just like the private sector when they run a business into the ground

you know they're priming to dump it. Don't let him get away with it.

[ailsagirl]

6. Oh, is HE still around???

[catrose]

7. We don't need to see a DeJoy plan, except his own exit

[DEbluedude]

8. Change the fucking 2006 law that requires the USPS to fund their pension plan for 75 years.

This prick needs to go. Yes, they're on a death spiral because of legislation enacted by scumbag republicans. Their "strategic plan" has been to privatize the USPS. Good union jobs. That's the reason. Don't be fooled by these assholes.

[mpcamb]

10. Amen. Postal service is, was, always will be something we do for ourselves.

It should be pointed at a break-even metric.
Put the frigging fast sorting machines that a-hole put in a warehouse somewhere back on line and watch deficits disappear, mail get delivered on time and service satisfaction rise again.

[mpcamb]

11. Oh, and I forgot- Fire his crooked ass and charge him with insider trading.

[AZ8theist]

24. Hopefully his "10 year plan" is a personal one....

And includes prison time for perjury and the insider deal for the postal vehicles...

[C Moon]

9. I'm sure the GOPutin is still using DeJoy for upcoming elections.

[Blue Owl]

12. Get that DeJoy motherfucker outta there

He's the fucking idiot tRump stooge that caused all the problems in the first goddamned place

[iluvtennis]

23. ++++++++ agree. He's a jackass. nt

[live love laugh]

30. +1

[ashredux]

13. The Postal Service was never designed to be a profit center. It is a service that enhances the econo

[Ford_Prefect]

14. In no other country does the postal service exist in such peril nor depend on for profit firms to

carry mail anywhere. The GOP has been on a 50 year agenda to defund and eliminate publicly owned mail delivery. Louis DeJoy represents the final solution.

In Canada, England, France, Germany, and elsewhere the internet is owned and run by the Post Office as a public utility with much higher data rates as standard in any household or business.

[keithbvadu2]

15. So far his strategy has been to sabotage the PO.

So far his strategy has been to sabotage the PO.

Sometimes in ways that benefit his own investments.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. WTF! Even Stalin only needed a 5 year plan /nt

[marble falls]

17. Hasn't been fired yet?

[Jay25]

18. I hope his pompous ass doesn't cause irreparable damage before/if he is fired. I don't

Understand why he is still Postmaster, it appears he tried to sabotage mail in voting and ignored senate Democrats request for information.

[George II]

19. I think DeJoy will be out before trump's next "infrastructure week" in a couple of weeks..........

[area51]

20. "Death Spiral" certainly describes the post office under DeJoy.

[Mr. Evil]

21. Why isn't this bastard being grilled by the FBI as we speak?!

He's acting like he's going to be the PMG for the long haul. He should be in fucking jail right now! He intentionally worked to disrupt a national election with the purpose of altering the voting process. And he's making long term plans?! WTF!!!

[HUAJIAO]

22. His whole intent is to destroy the PO,

make it look like a disaster, then they can privatize it...

[NJCher]

25. I'm surprised he's taking himself so seriously

surely he knows his days are numbered.

However, if you read the article there are serious financial losses faced by the postal service and there have been for a long time.

Something needs to be done, but I would like to see what more imaginative people than DeJoy have to say about it. This national delivery system, which covers rural areas, is quite valuable. It just needs to be brought into line with current needs.

[peppertree]

26. The ONLY 10-year plan I want to see from deJoy, is for his 10-year jail sentence

He could take up woodwork or tomato gardening - probably the only worthwhile things he'll have ever done in his rotten life.

[Cozmo]

27. DeJoy needs to be de-clued in. Rep. Lawrence tried to school him but...

this dude didn't get it and he never will. To all the private sector buffoons that tRump appointed, Government is not a business and never will be. DeJoy, just go home before your screw things up even more.

[IzzaNuDay]

28. this is the plan for DeJoke:

Submit the plan, hand it over to Rep. Katie Porter for an extra credit wire brushing, then send him on his way!

[live love laugh]

29. Funny how the delivery stds. were achievable before Dejoy

was appointed. He’s full of shit.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Pay more and get less.

You can tell Dejoy is a Trump protegee.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/postal-service-overhaul-plan-sees-higher-prices-slower-mail/ar-BB1eSJ6A?li=BBnb7Kz