DeJoy's aggravated malfeasance on display - Senate Hearing LIVE

[Mersky]

I can’t live comment much this morning, but earlier I heard him say the Postal Service didn’t have a purpose until he got involved.

[Rebl2]

1. I still

have not gotten some mail displayed in my informed delivery from back in December-a Christmas card, a bill and something from my lawyer. I am impatiently waiting Dejoy🤬. Biden should have fired him last year! I truly believe Dejoy is trying to destroy the PO.

[Ocelot II]

10. Biden can't fire him. Only the USPS Board of Governors can remove him.

[Mersky]

2. Can't answer letters from Congress; can't explain axing processing centers

He’s mostly throwing attitude and arrogance to get thru questions about slow mail, bizarre truck route choices thru traffic bottlenecks, high stamp prices and more..

[ancianita]

3. On Facebook, DeJoy's USPS is posting questions to businesses about "their goals" with mail in ballots.

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[Rebl2]

4. I spoke with

someone yesterday who said some people in her neighborhood where she lives have not gotten mail in a month. My husband spoke with someone while he was at our local post office-who seemed to be in the know-that the post office has hired people, but then they never come to work. In other words they get hired, then quit before they start work.

[wolfie001]

15. It's a brutal all day, every day labor intensive job

If you're not fit and healthy, this type of work will eat you alive. I worked on a grocery floor and had to move every day all day (46 hours per week). Over 39 years and retired; for less pay and angrier customers.

[PatSeg]

20. The only thing is working for the USPS

comes with exceptional benefits. I remember a young mail carrier who had started at the Post Office when he was going to college. Once he graduated, he was doing so well at the Post Office, that it was hard to let go to take a job in the private sector for less money and fewer benefits.

A lot of government jobs come with perks and a comfortable retirement that you rarely find in the private sector.

[Rebl2]

36. My husband

worked for PO for 34 years, retiring 7 years ago. Things were not great then, but they have gotten worse. His supervisor asked him to stay a while longer, but he had enough, especially the bunch of right wingers he had to work with.

[PatSeg]

38. Right-wing co-workers would really make the job intolerable

I have a friend who retired from the Post Office (before the Trump administration luckily) and her pension and insurance are far better than most people get when retiring from the private sector.

It was infuriating seeing what DeJoy did to the Post Office and hard to believe he is still there.

[Mersky]

5. He's dismissive of every concrete example presented to him

One of his favorite excuses is empty trucks going out. Too many empty trucks, then he’ll pivot to bragging about how many packages they’re delivering. Which is it, Louis? Too much business or too little? Oh, and HE implemented the arbitrary empty truck timing years ago.

[PatSeg]

21. Back during the Trump years,

I remember DeJoy being a total dick during congressional hearings. Apparently time hasn't improved his disposition. I swear he looks like he snarls at people.

[Mersky]

23. Yep, he's the same pigheaded jerk now

No humility, and incapable of taking responsibility for his poor performance, likely because he’s doing exactly what he set out to do: undermine the postal service.

[PatSeg]

24. My daughter said

DeJoy looks like a mob boss and he talks like one as well.

[Mersky]

25. Indeed, maybe he's just a bit player, but

Would not surprise me if he’s connected to organized crime.

[PatSeg]

33. Same here

He does not strike me as an upstanding citizen and as I recall, his background would indicate he was a bit sketchy. It's been a while so I can't remember the details. I had really figured he would be gone by now.

[live love laugh]

35. Don't they all? Republicans that is .... and their cult leader.

[PatSeg]

37. True, but some more than others

Especially DeJoy and Trump.

[Faux pas]

6. What an effing

BSing con man.

[Mersky]

7. Lol, he certainly can't deliver on professionalism

And he’s had four years to get it up. Here at DU, we all knew tRump chose him in order to kneecap the USPS.

[Mersky]

8. Hearing adjourned, but worth watching

You won’t be disappointed in being disappointed with DeJoy. He brought everything you’d expect — poor excuses, generalities, petulance, and disdain for his, eh, post.

[jalan48]

9. So, is there anything that can be done while we have a Democratic President or are we basically stuck with the guy?

I'm sure Trump is thrilled to have him still running the PO.

[ffr]

11. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) really rips blinky-boy Dejoy a new a**hole beginning at 52 minutes.

"Unacceptable!!!"

[GenThePerservering]

12. Biden can't do anything about firing DeJoyless

it's up to the Board of Governors, which is bipartisan. DeJoy is an arrogant schmuck - he's done one or two good things and that's about it. If he's subject to a hearing, his days may be numbered. He's the first postmaster general who has had NO experience.

[live love laugh]

32. What one or two good things has Dejoy done?

[GenThePerservering]

34. I run a mail order business

Instituting Ground Advantage, which saved money for my customers (and myself) and went ahead with an electric vehicles phase-in.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had to be beaten over the head to do those two things - the rest of his decision making is awful.

USPS service for me has been excellent, but I put that down to the stellar postal employees, not DeJoyless.

[onenote]

40. He played a significant role in getting Repubs to support the Biden administration's Post Office Reform bill.

That put him in good stead with both Schumer and the President and, I suspect, is one of the reasons getting rid of him has not been a priority. It's politics.

[onenote]

42. He is not the first postmaster general with no postal service experience

In fact, several Postmaster Generals came into the position without any postal service background, including Winton Blount, Albert Casey, Preston Tisch, Anthony Frank, and Marvin Runyon.

[jaxexpat]

13. This is way too easy. Anybody that blinks that much while "answering" questions is simply lying.

You can usually take that observation to the bank. Manic blinking is a sure sign the blinker is lying and desperately trying to sell the listener their lies. Non-stop blinking while talking is a nervous reaction to being afraid of exposure. Exposure that would confirm his flawed character. DeJoy is a poster child for this phenomenon. He is untrustworthy in all he does or purports to be. Just a fact.

Someone out there is going to say it's a sign of eye moisture disorder or some such unlikeliness. Save it, don't do business with chronic blinkers and you'll be better off for it.

[ShazzieB]

14. What gets me are those "Built for how you business" commercials the USPS has been running.

I don't know how they expect anyone over the age of 7 to believe this horse pucky!

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[MontanaMama]

18. As the owner of two businesss...

actually one now because we sold one of them at the end of the year...we could not use USPS for shipping in the lower 48 states. I used them sometimes to Canada and AK but they really are not set up for small business to use in a meaningful way. AND, you can't get a person on the phone. Ever.

[2naSalit]

16. Fuck that guy...

All the way.

[MontanaMama]

19. I approve this message.

[2naSalit]

30. I mean...

What else is there to say to or about the guy?

[snot]

17. Fwiw, a little over 4 mos. ago, 2 vacancies opened up on the USPS Board of Governors

(per Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Governors_of_the_United_States_Postal_Service ). If Biden appoints two Democrats, the Board will include 5 Democrats, 2 Independents, and 4 Republicans.

[OnDoutside]

27. I had a look at that, how the hell did Biden appoint a

Republican, Derek Kan to the board ???? It makes no sense.

[onenote]

41. Kan's nomination was paired with that of a Democrat

It's a very common strategy for filling vacancies on multi-member agencies.

[OnDoutside]

43. So does that mean the two open slots won't be filled by 2 Dems ?

[onenote]

44. It means that neither will be filled by a Republican

Biden already has nominated a Democrat to fill one of the vacancies. He will be the fourth Democrat. Kan was the fourth repub. Since no party can have more than five, there is no way Biden will nominate a fifth Republican leaving the Board with four Democrats.

[yorkster]

28. I think Pres. Biden has nominated Marty Walsh, former Boston Mayor and Sec. of Labor

for one of those slots. That was on March 1st of this year.

[usaf-vet]

22. Well I have a pretty good idea why things continue to get worse in the USPS. Dejoy is a (R) operative he want to slow...

... and disrupt voting ballots (bottom line), regardless of what he says he is doing. That stuff, in my opinion, is smoke and mirrors that will be used to explain why voting ballots didn't get where they were supposed to be when they were supposed to be, trying to throw the election to Trump.

Problem two. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson are on the committee that oversees the USPS. During their questioning, it was apparent that they thought a private postal service would be more efficient. Thus, the USPS would be able to hire non-union laborers for a cheaper hourly wage.

Rand Paul wants to do away with a union retirement plan and only hire new employees who would be forced to have a 401K.

These two, and there may be others, are both rich and do not give rats a$$ what happens to the folks that deliver our mail.

It's not the blind leading the blind; it's the co-conspirators working to privatize every government service THEY think would benefit them and others like them.

Watch it here:

Added link to the committee hearing.

[onecaliberal]

26. Why is he still in this job? Dragging him to this hearring is a joke. He's a piece of shit.

[Wild blueberry]

29. Senator Butler also did a great job

I think around 1:25 or so.
DeJoy sounds unintelligent, uneducated, incurious, and incompetent. His plans to wreck the U.S. Postal Service are succeeding. He seems to think he's the czar, not the head of an Essential Service.
My rural town depends on our Post Office. Our Postmaster despairs of DeJoy, and says that most on the Board have little to no experience working in the Post Office. They sound like bureaucrats covering their asses.
I hope that this fustercluck is not beyond repair.

[live love laugh]

31. Mail volume has to be down exponentially bc of his sabotage.

I hardly get mail now.

Before Republicans invaded the USPS it was consistently voted the most positively regarded federal agency. Now I’m almost afraid to use it. It’s hard to watch seeing that I used to manage there and we were uber conscientious about customer service.