Posted on 08/18/2020 6:51:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday, a spokesman for the panel's chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), confirmed to The Hill.
The hearing, which is expected to take place virtually because the Senate is currently in the middle of a three-week recess, will be the first chance for lawmakers to publicly question DeJoy amid growing bipartisan concerns about changes at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and widespread mail delays ahead of the November election.
According to the committee, the hearing will look at the "finances and operations of the United States Postal Service during COVID-19 and upcoming elections."
Top Democrats have clamored for days for Johnson to hold a hearing with DeJoy, who is also scheduled to testify before the House on Monday.
“It is imperative that Mr. DeJoy publicly and comprehensively testify about changes and planned changes taking place at the U.S. Postal Service, since the Postal Service is a public institution that both serves and belongs to every person in our nation," Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the top Democrat on the panel, wrote in a letter to Johnson over the weekend.
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Good, he can regain his credibility after the Schumer juvenile lies.
Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s thunder. He isn’t scheduled to appear in front of the House hearing until Monday.
I’m surprised. Why would they want facts to intrude upon their conspiracy theory, particularly when the President unfortunately lent credence to it.
WHEN they start with the Barr treatment (Ask accusatory question, interrupt answer to “Reclaim my time”, then repeat for 5 minutes) he should tell them to get bent, turn off the stream and go have lunch.
Or, since this is an e-inquisition, don’t let them “re-claim” their time. When asked a question, mute them and go on and give a complete answer, then un-mute. The inquisitors will look silly with rage trying to get him to comply.
Here’s some info I would like to see elicited: How many people who have reported delivery issues with USPS are Trump donors?
It would be easy enough for Fedzilla to check.
I never had a problems until I became a Trump donor.
I’d be curious to see if there’s a pattern.
“ Stealing Nancy Pelosi’s thunder”. AND stealing the news cycle from Biden!
Clap,clap, clap!!!
Go Ron Johnson.
This could be good. As far as I know, this guy supports the President. Get him in front of the Senate, ask him some sensible questions, and get him to actually make a case for why the USPS shouldn’t handle millions of mail-in votes.
Then let the House try to undo that damage.
Trump actually put out a tweet yesterday criticizing the Senate GOP for not getting him in there this week. It looks like they heard him.
Umm, USPS is handling millions of mailed in ballots in Alaska and Florida today, with millions more over the next couple weeks. The census went to every address in the US; none of this breaks USPS, the problem USPS is experiencing is that we're transitioning with the American public from a letter mail organization that also delivers packages to a package delivery company that also delivers mail.
It ain't letter mail (or magazines or advertising, etc) that is jammed into every corner of the plant I work at, it is packages as the COVIDmas volume continues and grows almost every day. We literally can't rip out machines we're not using to make more room for package sorting machines because the machines are surrounded by packages.
Ballots, pshaw, that's easy peasy stuff. It's the damn packages what's causing the biggest issues. There aren't carriers quitting in record numbers because they have to deliver 3 letters vs two letters to a household, it's because they're not delivering any letters to a household but still go there to deliver 9 packages.
I have a friend who works for the Postal Service who showed me picture of their backroom. It was packed, floor to ceiling, with cartons of TOILET PAPER that were being delivered for Amazon.
Being bulk shippers of toilet paper is NOT something the USPS is really designed to be.
especially at a cut rate which loses money.
Beds in a box were my biggest bane. Followed by bags of dogfood in boxes, all from Amazon, because it was cheaper to pay USPS to deliver it than deliver it themselves.
Yup. My friend also echoes kingu’s point that the turnover rate on mail carriers has gotten very high. Delivering the mail is REAL WORK and it seems there aren’t a whole lot of young people signing-up for that these days.
I’ve always felt that “Postmaster General” is the most inflated title in the U.S. government. Why does this guy get to be both a “master” and a “General” when he is managing a bunch of overfed paperboys?
Yesterday my mail arrived a little after 7 pm, well over an hour after its normal delivery time, which is usually between 4:45 and 5:30 pm, and sometimes earlier. This could have just been a coincidence, but I was wondering if mailmen might be deliberately slowing down delivery to make some kind of political point.
To a degree you are right. Here is what my postal worker friend told me.
Trump’s new Postmaster General wanted to get control of the post office’s runaway costs. The first thing he did was try to cut out the payment of overtime. The way it worked was that when the public windows closed for the day you went back and sorted the mail that was on the dock so it would be ready to deliver next-day. As the volume fluctuates day-to-day there is no way to know how long that might take you so very often you racked-up overtime meeting this standard.
The new PG changed the standard and said that you should work up until you’re about to hit OT and then clock out. Anything not sorted on the dock should be left for the next day.
Problem is that the mail never stops coming. If you get 90% of it sorted and leave the next day you’ll have another delivery, plus 10%. If you don’t get it all sorted that day the backlog will grow some more, and some more, etc.
That’s what was causing the delays and the OT policy has since been relaxed. However, the union brotherhood, unhappy with the loss of premium pay, has been known to show their displeasure with deliberate slowdowns.
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