Summary:
Louis DeJoy has resigned as postmaster general of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) amid uncertainty about the agency’s future under President Trump.
DeJoy had notified the USPS board of directors in February that it was “time for them to begin the process of identifying his successor.” His resignation on Monday expedites that process and leaves Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino in charge until a permanent replacement is found.
“While our management team and the men and women of the Postal Service have established the path toward financial sustainability and high operating performance – and we have instituted enormous beneficial change to what had been an adrift and moribund organization – much work remains that is necessary to change our positive trajectory,” DeJoy said in a statement first reported by Reuters.
DeJoy had served as Postmaster General since May 2020. He previously donated to GOP political campaigns.
So nice of him to wait until he finished crippling the system and specifically fucking with ballot deliveries and returns and helping orangeboi get in before resigning. Fucking shitbag.
He’ll probably now lead the privatization effort from the corporate side.
He knows he won’t be needed for the next election, because…well, you know.
Why didnt Biden ditch this guy when he had a chance? He could have, if he had shown any spine at all as president. That entire administration let us down badly.
He couldn’t remove him directly, but he was able to appoint enough members of the board that they had a Democratic majority, who could have booted DeJoy. Biden needed to appoint members who were committed to resisting and firing DeJoy, and with Biden’s, and Congress’s loud vocal support, influence the rest of the board to replace him.
Instead, Biden did less than nothing.
Biden appointed 5 of the 9 members of the postal board of governors. He could have fired him that way and he didnt. https://apwu.org/postal-board-governors
https://prospect.org/politics/dejoys-continued-job-security-depends-on-bidens-next-move/
in 2022 Biden appointed to the board of governors: Anton Hajjar, Amber McReynolds and Ron Stroman Daniel Tangherlini and Derek Kan
Thats enough to oust Dejoy. And yet he wasnt ousted. Why not? Seems Biden didnt pressure them to fire Dejoy, but could have. As usual, centrists are not motivated to use the power we struggled to give them.
All I’m hearing here is a lack of imagination. And the current clusterfuck administration has an abundance of imagination in this realm, and we knew they would. Stands to reason that maybe Biden should have done more than sit on his fucking hands in the interest of forestalling the fascists.
You’re right of course. On the other hand this policy of strictly following established laws and precedents is in part what got us into this mess. Democrats could’ve been ruthless but they were meek. And now they have become almost entirely sidelined.
May he die in obscurity and pain, and burn in hell eternally.
Famous for trying to sabotage ballot delivery during the 2020 election to help Trump.
Biden couldn’t get rid of him. Look up the process for getting a new one.
This is the man that decommissioned a very large percentage of our auto mail machines, good way to shit over all the USPS staff and cripple the whole system.
Would have been cool if he did that like 4 years ago.
Obviously timing to be replaced by someone even worse
And now he can use his newly padded resume to get a cushy executive job at wherever guts the remainder of the usps
