The USPS must meet its mandates while remaining financially self-sufficient, and while its core business of delivering first-class letter mail nationwide at a fixed price is shrinking inexorably. In that light, it may well be the case that DeJoy isn’t the worst conceivable leader for the service.
DeJoy’s 10-year plan, upliftingly titled “Delivering for America,” brims with business jargon that most consumers probably recognize as excuses for service cutbacks. It talks of a “bold approach,” “optimized,” “modernized,” “structured for success” and new “pricing strategies.” President Biden has nominated three new members of the board to fill vacant seats. That would give the board a Democratic majority capable of ejecting DeJoy from his job. But it’s not 100% certain that it would do so.
To some extent the act was a response to a crushing eight-day mail strike that began in New York and spread nationwide. To win support of an act that eliminated the Post Office as a Cabinet agency and placed it on its own financial footing, the postal unions got raises for their members and the statutory right to strike. Underlying the transformation, however, was the argument that private enterprise could operate more efficiently than a government department.
TomOrtenberg hiltzikm TRUE.
hiltzikm Dumbest headline I’ve read all day. Run it like a business. What’s the p&l look like?
TomOrtenberg hiltzikm I think destroying it from within is the point.
hiltzikm DeJoy is trying to destroy the USPS so that mail-in voting will become an impossibility by 2022. SaveTheUSPS