USPS tomfoolery brought to you by Trump and the coward Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

[China]

Consumers fume after US Postal Service suspends Australian deliveries

 

The United States Postal Service has suspended most of its deliveries to Australia, infuriating consumers waiting for mail and businesses relying on overseas sales.

 

The national postal service began halting services last month due to the “unavailability of transport,” with many items destined for Australia returned to their US senders.

 

Australia is among 21 countries, including war-torn destinations such as Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, the US postal service has suspended deliveries to.

 

A postal service spokeswoman said first-class package international services to Australia were temporarily suspended on September 3, and priority mail international services were suspended two weeks later.

 

“The postal service regrets any inconvenience. Our ability to find available transportation capacity to Australia is driven by external forces which we do not control,” she said.

 

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[Cooked Crack]

 

[The Evil Genius]

Also..

 

Edited November 19, 2021 by The Evil Genius

[PokerPacker]

9 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

about ****ing time.  Probably too late to save Christmas, though.

[China]

Long overdue:

 

Biden To Take Key Step Toward Ousting Postmaster Louis DeJoy

 

 

President Joe Biden is slated to announce on Friday that he won’t keep a top ally of controversial Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on the U.S. Postal Service board of governors next month, according to the Washington Post.

 

The ally, USPS board chair Ron Bloom, reportedly will not be renominated to the nine-member board when his term ends next month. Though Bloom is a Democrat, he supports DeJoy, who was appointed by ex-President Donald Trump and has implemented USPS policies that have slowed down deliveries while hiking up prices.

 

Bloom’s critics have pointed a potential conflict of interest between the chair and DeJoy, who has bought more than $300,000 in bonds from Bloom’s asset management company. 

 

Removing Bloom from the board, the only institution that can oust a Postmaster General, allows Biden to appoint a governor who could provide another vote with the three other Democratic members to get rid of DeJoy. The President has filled three slots on the board since he entered office.

 

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USPS Will Pay Postmaster General-Connected Company $120M

 

Louis DeJoy is the Postmaster General and has created an intricate web of financial conflicts which will ultimately cost $120 million to taxpayers over the next five years.

 

XPO Logistics, a freight transportation company, pays DeJoy and family businesses at least $2.1 million every year to lease four office buildings in North Carolina, The Washington Post reported.

 

DeJoy, who was the chief supply chain executive for XPO in 2014-2015 after New Breed Logistics bought DeJoy’s trucking company DeJoy owned since more than 30 years.

 

The Post reports that DeJoy and his families have sold between $65.4 and $155.3 millions worth of XPO shares since he was made postmaster general.

 

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The fight to oust Louis DeJoy and his ‘disastrous’ austerity plan

 

Unions, elected officials and others call for Trump appointee’s exit amid delays in services, cuts and consolidation efforts

 

he US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, has drawn criticism over changes made to the US Postal Service since Donald Trump appointed him in May 2020, which have included delays in services, cuts and consolidation efforts, along with financial conflicts of interest.

 

These changes have continued into the Biden administration amid calls from unions, some elected officials, and progressive groups to oust DeJoy from his position, especially as in the pandemic, postal votes have become increasingly common and a core part of America’s democratic systems.

 

In March 2021, the USPS unveiled a 10-year austerity plan to improve the financial sustainability of the postal service, which includes implementing longer delivery windows, cuts to branch hours, consolidation and shutdowns of branches and facilities, and postage rate increases.

 

As well as fears over the efficacy of postal voting, the move has raised concerns over impacts on low-income Americans, rural communities and small businesses that rely on these services.

 

“The 10-year plan is a plan for privatization. It just doesn’t use the ‘p’ word,” said Porter McConnell, co-founder of the Save the Post Office Coalition. “It’s already happening. I think what they’ve discovered is that you can privatize without talking about it.”

 

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[China]

Still wondering why DeJoy hasn't been canned yet.  Meanwhile:

 

Biden officials are trying to stop the Postal Service from spending $11.3 billion on gas-powered trucks, citing pollution and climate change

 

Officials in the Biden administration on Wednesday urged the US Postal Service not to go through with a plan to spend billions of dollars on gas-powered trucks, expressing concerns over pollution and the climate crisis.

 

The Postal Service plan includes spending $11.3 billion on as many as 165,000 trucks over the next decade, despite the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warning against the environmental impact of the decision. In letters sent on Wednesday, the EPA and the White House Council on Environmental Quality urged the independent agency to ditch its plan and conduct a new environmental analysis.

 

The EPA letter, which was obtained by Insider, said the Postal Service's plan, which calls for just 10% of the new fleet to be electric, "underestimates greenhouse gas emissions, fails to consider more environmentally protective feasible alternatives and inadequately considers impacts on communities with environmental justice concerns."

 

The letter also noted the plan has "virtually no fuel efficiency gains for the other 90%" of new trucks and is inconsistent with President Joe Biden's agenda to "move with deliberate speed toward clean, zero-emitting vehicles."

 

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, an ally of former President Donald Trump, signed off on the plan and has said the Postal Service, an independent federal agency, cannot afford to buy more electric vehicles, The Washington Post reported.

 

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[Hersh]

18 minutes ago, China said:

Still wondering why DeJoy hasn't been canned yet.  Meanwhile:

 

Why hasn't he been yet? I thought Biden had appointed enough members to the board to have him removed

 

[Simmsy]

If someone is so hard to get rid of as post master, how did DeJoy get in, exactly?

[China]

The New USPS Trucks Would Probably Be Illegal If They Weighed One Pound Less

 

The USPS has defended the purchase of up to 165,000 new trucks from increasing criticism—for being years late, oddly expensive, strangely inefficient, and only about 10 percent of them being electric—on the grounds that the current fleet is so old they’re bursting into flames and urgently need to be replaced. It further argues at least 5,000 of the vehicles will be electric, but the agency is too broke to buy more than that. Still, the USPS says, the gas models have a fuel efficiency of 14 mpg as long as the air conditioning isn’t running (8.6 mpg if it is) better than the current fleet—manufactured in the 1980s—that gets 8 mpg. And, the USPS points out, gas models can be converted to electric at a future date.

 

To critics of the purchase, these don’t sound like defenses at all, but further indictments of the decision making that led to it. Katherine Garcia, director of the Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All Campaign, told Motherboard, “I think their statement is misleading by suggesting that they’re going to convert these vehicles because that would be even more expensive than moving forward with an electric fleet to begin with.” She cited a study by the Atlas Public Policy research group that EVs would actually save the agency billions of dollars, especially if the alternative is vehicles that get such poor gas mileage. 

 

But this whole debate would be moot if not for a strange fact about the new USPS vehicles disclosed in a letter published by the EPA last week. If the vehicles weighed just one pound less, they wouldn’t be permitted on American roads because they pollute too much. 

 

In fact, Garcia argues, if the trucks had a gross vehicle weight of just .01 percent less, the delivery fleet would almost certainly have to be electric to meet the EPA’s new fuel efficiency standards.

 

“We suspect it was intentional,” Garcia deadpanned.

 

 

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Push for swift passage of Postal Service overhaul bill hits snag in the Senate

 

A push for swift passage of a sweeping bill with bipartisan support to overhaul the US Postal Service's finances hit a snag Monday evening in the Senate.

 

Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, objected to a unanimous consent request from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to make a technical fix to the bill. Scott argued that there are issues with the legislation and that the Senate should slow down and work to improve it.

As a result, the Senate was not able to proceed to a planned vote to advance the bill Monday night. Schumer said that being unable to immediately make the technical fix will delay the bill, but vowed that the Senate will eventually pass it.

Now, absent an agreement to speed up the process, the Senate will have to restart the procedure needed to set up a final vote on the legislation in the chamber. It's not yet clear when a final passage vote will take place.

The USPS reform bill has bipartisan support and passed the House last week by a vote of 342 to 92. The bill seeks to overhaul the Postal Service's finances to help shore up its financial footing and allow it to modernize its service.

 

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[Fergasun]

Rick Scott's office provided no further comment. 

 

This is unprecedented BS in the Senate. Bills rarely get that level of support in the House. 

 

Or, Rick Scott is an idiot who is blocking the bill for obstructionist sake.  If we had better voters, this type of action would get him shamed. 

[Cooked Crack]

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Additionally, USPS would no longer be required to pre-fund health benefits for its current and retiring employees, which saves about $27 billion over 10 years. This is where the greatest cost savings for the Postal Service would come.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079866701/usps-reform-bill

Edited March 8, 2022 by Cooked Crack

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Bang]

"Mr. Inspector! What will be done about this latest evidence of illegal activity?"

"Yes, um, we believe nothing will ever happen as a result of this"

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Postmaster general: Get used to 'uncomfortable' rate hikes

 

Americans should get used to “uncomfortable” postage rate increases in coming years as the U.S. Postal Service seeks to become self-sufficient, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Thursday.

 

The Postal Service Board of Governors sets postage rates, but DeJoy said he'll advocate for raising prices until “we have accomplished our objective of projecting a trajectory that shows us being self-sustaining.”

 

“I believe we have been severely damaged by at least 10 years of a defective pricing model which cannot be satisfied by one or two annual price increases, especially in this inflationary environment,” he added.

 

DeJoy made the remarks at a Board of Governors meeting in which the Postal Service reported a loss of about $1.7 billion for the latest quarter.

 

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[Hersh]

It’s infuriating that he is still postmaster general. 

[PokerPacker]

How ****ing hard is it to get rid of that scum?  Seriously?

[China]

 

[88Comrade2000]

On 2/4/2022 at 11:17 AM, Simmsy said:

If someone is so hard to get rid of as post master, how did DeJoy get in, exactly?

He gave Donny money probably 

[China]

 

[China]

USPS Update: There is no update

 

Nothing to report here.  There were two vacancies at the end of 2022.  It appears that Biden’s awesome team can’t bother to find two people in a country of 340,000,000 people who are qualified to join that board.  So the old DeJoy sycophants remain on the board and DeJoy continues to dismantle the USPS in order to send more business to private companies, including ones he has had long financial connections with.

 

WTF?  I mean really.  We control the Senate.  Why can’t Biden’s people get this job done?  It is things like this that make Americans wonder if EVERYBODY in Washington is hopelessly corrupt.

 

Biden could nominate one Democrat and one Independent immediately.  (The law prohibits more than 4 Governors from the same party, but Biden can certainly nominate independents rather than DeJoy suck-ups.)  There are two former Representatives who are seeking that Democratic slot.  Why can’t Biden get this done?  How hard can this possibly be?

 

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