DeJoy remains silent on lawmakers’ demand for explanation for slow mail delivery – People’s World

WASHINGTON — The top brass of the U.S. Postal Service, all appointed by Trump’s Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, are apparently remaining silent, at least on their website, in responding to its regulators’ request for data on slow mail deliveries. the USPS and DeJoy’s increasing shutdowns.

And it also gives a cold shoulder to 22 skeptical senators, who reflect the concerns of their constituents.

The latest elimination took place June 17, reported Gail Adams, communications director for the Postal Regulatory Commission. That’s when the panel asked for details about the closures and slow deliveries.

The committee was the Postal Rates Commission, but it was renamed and given more oversight powers.

The commission followed a May letter from the bipartisan group of senators, seeking detailed information and warning about the negative impact of DeJoy’s plan on deliveries of life-saving medicines, perishable goods, bills – and, a senior official of the Illinois Postal Union previously said …ballots.

DeJoy and the business cronies he brought with him to run the USPS are required by law to obtain, at the very least, a full advisory analysis and opinion from the commission before going moving forward with such drastic changes. DeJoy told senators during a contentious hearing in May that he would go anyway.

Postal unions have so far remained silent on the latest controversy. Postal Workers (APWU) are scheduled to begin national negotiations with USPS leaders on a new contract on June 24.

The panel “requested information on the Postal Service’s continued large-scale network changes despite its announced ‘pause’ in implementing parts of the Delivering for America (DFA) plan,” the Postal Service statement said. commission.

He also said DeJoy sent few details about “a pilot test of postal network changes” in his May 16 “response to the commission’s show cause order.” A show cause order is a legal term generally reserved for cases where the recipient must “show cause” why an action should not be targeted to them.

While the letter asks for details about the closures and slow delivery, an accompanying commission chart reveals the scale of the problem.

It says in the bottom legend that the USPS has a national on-time delivery goal of 92%.

This conveniently overlooks the fact that when he became Postmaster General, DeJoy solved the difficulties of “on-time delivery” by expanding the targets. This meant, for example, that first-class mail from Chicago to the Twin Cities, which previously had a three-day delivery goal, now has a five-day goal.

And even with longer goals, the chart shows DeJoy’s plan failing. Some 91 percent of mail was on time the first week of the USPS fiscal year last October. It has not exceeded 90% since then and plummeted to 60% just after the December 2023 holidays.

DeJoy, loyal to his corporate class and to XPO Logistics Inc., which he had run and still owns a large share of, is instead offering packages.

“National service performance in 2024 has reached historic lows, while places like Atlanta continue to suffer from service problems, even after some improvements in recent weeks,” the commission statement added.

DeJoy also promised that his Delivering for America closures of post offices and sorting centers—and the resulting forced retirements of postal workers—and his shift from lucrative first-class letters to parcels would produce benefits.

Instead, DeJoy, who former Republican President Donald Trump imposed on the USPS, now projects a loss of $65 billion over ten years. While leading XPO, DeJoy was also a major Republican donor, beginning with a contribution more than four decades ago to arch-racist Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.

“The emerging circumstances and information have heightened the urgency and importance of understanding the impacts and regulatory implications of the DFA before the Postal Service makes further changes impacting service,” said President the Postal Regulatory Commission, Michael Kubayanda, in the panel’s statement.

DeJoy also did not respond to senators, an inspection of the USPS website and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee site shows. That panel oversees the USPS and its chairman, Gary Peters, D-Mich., is behind the letter.

“While USPS claims these changes will improve service overall while reducing costs, there is evidence to the contrary in locations where USPS has implemented changes to date.. USPS must halt implementation, restore service to areas where changes have been implemented, and fully understand the national effects of its plan on service and communities,” the senators wrote.

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