Biden Surprises With USPS Board Shake-Up; Key DeJoy Allies To Be Replaced - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi talks with Rachel Maddow about the unexpected announcement that President Joe Biden intends to nominate two new members of the U.S. Postal Service board, removing key allies of Trump postmaster general Louis DeJoy, and likely setting the stage for his replacement. Aired on 11/19/2021.

[FreepFryer]

1. "Boiled shrimp sewn into the hem of the curtains when the last guy left the White House"

What THE FUCK is rachel talking about w this reference?

EDIT: it was hyperbole but at first that was unclear. Odd choice for what is otherwise a good segment.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. If the last administration had done that with the shrimp, it would smell pretty rancid by now

And that's what happened with DeJoy. He was placed there by TFG and continues to cause more difficulties with our mail system the longer he remains there.

[FreepFryer]

3. Oh yeah I get the analogy, when she first went there I was like "dafuq! Did they do that?"

After the “missing w” keyboard myth from the Clinton transition era I wouldn’t put it past em

[Rhiannon12866]

5. LOL! I know, sounds about TFG's speed...

[brush]

4. Joe has been bidding his time as Bloom's term is up in December. He's been on top...

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of the situation and knew he couldn't make a move to get rid of DeJoy until he had the votes on the Post Office board.

Now with these two replacements, he'll have the DeJoy backers gone, and then Dejoy will be gone too.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Thanks so much for explaining the details.

President Biden sure has a full plate! Back in 2008, I can remember seeing all the Democratic presidential candidates together on the stage and wondering, after all that had happened in the previous eight years, who would want the job now?? But that doesn't even compare to the overwhelming disaster that was left for Biden...

[Tomconroy]

6. Good.

[hlthe2b]

8. I can't tell you how many emails & letters I have sent about this. I will copy my congressional

delegation AGAIN in a letter addressed to Rep Raja Krishnamorrthi THANKING HIM for FOLLOWING THROUGH and not letting this drop. Hint hint to others (though honestly, I don't know what my own or other Reps might have been doing to assist).

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Was DeJoy streamlining USPS for sale to private carriers?

That's what I make of it. And any progress going forward on repairing the USPS will be slow and expensive. Unwinding the long-term contracts he made, the equipment and trucks purchase agreements, the altered sorting, the personnel levels - these are all problems. It's a business operating on reduced volume and therefore revenues for first class mail, but higher volume and costs for packages, and how do you maintain retail hours and levels while operating in the black? Not to mention union constraints?

Ten years ago my local post office was cold and in need of vacuuming. Now it has heat, cooling, waxed floors, janitorial service, energy-efficient (I suspect) window film, a roll-up window. These things cost money, and someone authorized its expensing. Another local post office, twenty years ago, the postmistress said there is no hot water, and she had an electric heater under her desk in the winter. Every few years there's a trial balloon about combining post offices, but some people would travel farther to pickup their mail.

And there is construction and growth. Buildings are sold off, larger ones built. I think those are General Services Administration actions, not something on USPS books.

So call me skeptical much can be done with the USPS, absent a new form of revenue

[left-of-center2012]

10. Why is this a 'surprise' ?

Posts on DU have been predicting this for some time
as have online articles.