DeJoy charges ahead with USPS cost-cutting despite beating financial projections

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

DeJoy charges ahead with USPS cost-cutting despite beating financial projections

Timely delivery service remains poor, and critics hope President Biden’s nominees, once confirmed, can increase pressure on Postal Service leaders

By Jacob Bogage
Staff writer
May 7, 2021 at 2:19 p.m. EDT

The pandemic’s e-commerce shipping surge propelled the U.S. Postal Service to better-than-expected financial fortunes in the second quarter, the agency reported Friday, but its governing board and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said they would press forward with service cuts.

Here are four takeaways from the Friday’s board session:

Mail service remains poor

When the board last met, in February, governors attributed the mail service’s generationally bad on-time performance during the holiday season to vicious package volumes, employees out on leave because of the pandemic and entrenched problems with the agency’s processing network. And they said that service would improve in the next quarter.

Well, service got worse.

In the quarter that ended Dec. 31, the Postal Service delivered 78.4 percent of first-class mail on time, well short of the internal goal of 96 percent. In the quarter that ended March 31, that number dipped to 78.1 percent.

By the percentages, that is basically flat. But in the real world, that is hundreds of thousands of first-class items — bills, paychecks, prescriptions — that did not arrive on time. And that’s fueled complaints from mail customers who’ve gotten dinged on their credit scores or incurred late fees because of bills that got stuck in the mail.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/usps-dejoy-meeting/

[ailsagirl]

1. He WILL be ousted... right??

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Unfortunately.........

to do so is one of those things that has to go through Congress - and you know how tough THAT is.
If Moscow Mitch wants him - and Manchin has some special 'something' that he's wanting that week - well, don't wait for the 'check in the mail.'

[ailsagirl]

4. Oh, damn

Wasn’t the guy responsible for destroying ballots? And other illegal activities?? 🤬

[BigmanPigman]

3. This is so frustrating.

All of my bills from March were never delivered and 3 out of 4 packages don't get delivered as well as my 2nd Economic Stimulus payment. We have to get rid of this guy somehow and ASAP.

[Rebl2]

5. I live

in the Kansas City area and after Christmas it seemed like our service got better finally. I do want to see dejoy fired. I don’t remember Congress approving his appointment. I thought trump just put him in there after firing the former postmaster.

[dalton99a]

6. Get rid of this criminal posthaste.