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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has been a blight on the already-beleaguered U.S. Postal Service from the moment he took office a year ago this month.
The Trump appointee slowed mail delivery during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, then in a bid move to help his boss’s re-election changes yanked mail sorting equipment and refused to seek federal funding to help the postal service deal with the deluge of Democratic-leaning mail-in ballots expected in last November’s presidential election.
What followed was a disaster of delay, affecting both the election and Christmas season deliveries. A full third of first-class mail was late over the holidays, with packages piling up in distribution centers.
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Postmaster promises new operating plan will help USPS to ‘break-even’ February 24 United States Postal Service Postmaster General Louis DeJoy speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Legislative Proposals to Put the Postal Service on Sustainable Financial Footing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/AP) Leadership at the U.S. Postal Service has yet to release its long anticipated plan to resolve the agency’s financial deficits, but Postmaster General Louis DeJoy promised lawmakers on Wednesday that the finalized measures will get the agency to a “break-even” state when combined with proposed legislation. That draft legislation would mandate three primary changes to postal operations: requiring all postal employees to enroll in Medicare when they reach 65 years old, eliminating the mandate that USPS prefund retiree benefits and requiring certain service performance standards.
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