office experience whatsoever. he has distinguished himself by, among other things, being under fbi criminal investigation for allegedly using the company he previously ran to gin up hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal republican campaign contributions, which among other things appeared to have positioned him to get this postmaster job. he has also distinguished himself by maintaining personal financial investments himself with companies doing business with the post office, while he s been running the post office. that doesn t seem good. he s also distinguished himself by doing everything one human could conceivably do to sabotage the actual post office so it doesn t work anymore, including ordering the irreversible physical destruction of multimillion dollar custom built mail sorting machines. he actually came up with a plan, a ten-year plan by which he promises he will make the post office provide fewer services and be permanently slower and be
from chicago, it would take two days if the destination was close. three if the destination was anywhere else in the continental u.s. sometimes it would be faster than that. today if you send that same piece of mail first class it would take three days even if it were just a few states away and it could take up to five days to reach the coast. at times services from the post office are getting, at the same time, services from the post office are getting more expensive. they re likely to keep going up, about twice a year, even as the service gets worse. so what s going on? why is the once innovative and reliable post office going in the wrong direction? well, it s part of a ten-year plan, from the postmaster general and trump administration hold over-louis dejoy. you might remember general dejoy from his role removing 10% of mail sorting machines before the start of the election last year. despite the massive amount of mail-in ballots going usps, people wanted to vote by mail because th
the wrong direction? it s part of a ten-year plan from the postmaster general and trump administration holdover, louis dejoy. you might remember, you might remember him for his role of removing 10% of mail sorting machines just before the presidential elective election last, year despite the massive mail-in ballots. because people didn t want to leave, they wanted to vote by mail, because there is a global pandemic. or maybe remember him from the still ongoing fbi investigation into campaign fund raising activities involving his former business where he allegedly pressure his employees into a strong donor scheme where they would donate to political campaigns, republican, ones that he, supported and that he would reimburse them through bonuses. which is illegal. that guy, this, guy louis dejoy, somehow still in charge of the united states postal services. are we still stuck with him and how do we get the post office that we love back? joining us now, put him a call,
he has been a u.s. postal worker for nearly 30 years, god bless him. what he s talking about there is the mail. when he says he has witnessed miracles on the job, did you catch what he said first, though? i don t think he really has a clue about what we do. the he in that sentence is this man, louis dejoy. he is the head of the u.s. postal service, the postmaster general appointed by donald trump. he is still in that job today, believe it or not. it was of course louis dejoy, pardon me for saying so, who kind of broke the u.s. mail system last year immediately after trump installed him in the job. he instituted draconian new policies that created unprecedented devastating backlogs in the mail across the whole country. he ordered multimillion dollar irreplaceable custom built mail sorting machines to be removed and destroyed. he cut the number of trips that mail carriers were allowed to take. he banned mail carriers from taking extra trips to deliver mail that would otherwise be late
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