Four years in, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has had one of the most controversial and high-profile tenures in the office’s history.
DeJoy was put in place by a Trump appointee-led Board of Governors in 2020 while under scrutiny for securing lucrative contracts for his former transportation company XPO Logistics, as well as for his investments in 14 companies with financial ties to USPS. During the COVID pandemic in 2020, DeJoy’s cost-cutting slashed the number of mail sorting machines and restricted postal workers’ ability to make extra trips, which a federal judge later found hurt both the Postal Service and states and localities by “impeding their ability to provide safe alternatives to in-person voting.”
But despite calls for his resignation, DeJoy has remained in the position during the Biden administration. “Get used to me,” he told congressional lawmakers during a 2021 hearing.
Everything is so much worse now. Mail at my house no longer comes at a consistent time. It used to be there 10:30-11:00 every day. Since consolidation that happens maybe once a week. The other days it’s 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 and sometimes 6:30 or later. I feel bad for my carrier because I know that this is due to how many days they now have to split routes. As more carriers quit/retire it’s only going to get worse.