Lewis did joy spoke with the Economic Club of washington dc about postal club operations. In the handling of mailin ballots. He also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on the workforce. Let me first now go to our special guest the postmaster general lewis did joy. Thank you very much for giving us your time today. Thank you david for having me and i want to thank the Economic Club of washington for paying attention to me. Thank you for attending. You are the 75th postmaster general the first one is behind you i can see. He was the inventor of the Postal Service. You are a native of new york and you went to college in florida in stetson and then you went back to your familys business and you belted up in greensboro North Carolina and built into the Largest Logistics Companies in the United States. You had been very involved in philanthropic alma mater. Thank you for giving us your time today. O let me just ask at the outset when you agreed to be postmaster general did you realiz
Attention to me at this time. Thank you for attending. Just briefly for those that may not know your background you are the 75th postmaster general. The first one is behind you i can see, Benjamin Franklin, that he was the inventor of the post office, Postal Service. You are a native of new york. You went to college in florida and then he went back to your families a business and you built it up, moved it to greensboro, North Carolina, build it into one of the larger Logistic Companies in the united stateses ultimate merged with another company of been involved in philanthropic activities at my alma mater, Duke University among other places so thank you for giving us your time today. Let me ask you at the outset, when you agreed to become postmaster general did you realize youre going to get this much attention . Because its not normally the most famous position in washington, d. C. And about many people can name your immediate predecessors. You are very well known. Did you expect you
2020 values voters summit. This is 20 minutes. This is the 15th annual gathering, going all the way back to 2005. Some of those early value voter meetings. Yeah. Debbie and i actually attended, like many of the people that are tuned in tonight, activists wanting to make sure that their values are heard in washington dc. For us, it was more about making sure that we werent silent. 15 years, it seems like just yesterday. Theres probably no more impactful gathering of conservative christian values that we get to hear, whether its in the administration or on capitol hill. The values voters summit happens each and every year. You get a lot of the energy. A lot of headlines. A lot of press. I remember having a conversation with you after one of these gatherings. You were sensing that you are being led to move more directly into the arena. It wasnt long after that that you were elected to congress. I felt a calling to run for congress. As you know, it was not the thing that i ever had on my b
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Attention to me. Thank you for attending. You are the 75th postmaster general. The first one is behind you, i can see, Benjamin Franklin. He was the inventor of the Postal Service. You are a native of new york. In florida,ollege then he went back to your familys business and build it up we up. He built it into one of the larger Logistics Companies, ultimately merging it with another company. So, thank you for giving us your time today. Let me ask you, at the outset, when you agreed to become postmaster general did you realize you were going to get this much attention . The most normally famous position in washington, people can doubt if name your immediate predecessors. Did you expect you would get this much attention . Mr. Dejoy i think when i accepted the role you need to remember the situation the Postal Service was in at the time. It was right at the height of the beginning of the pandemic. And we were having significant financial consequences at the time. So, i was kind of urgentl