# Controversial DeJoy is out-who do you think will take his place? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 24, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062 "2025-03-24T21:21:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/1 "2025-03-24T21:21:25Z")
Louis DeJoy says that this is his day as Postmaster General- [Exclusive: Louis DeJoy Resigns as Postmaster General | TIME](https://time.com/7271271/louis-dejoy-resigns-postmaster-general/) Who will probably get the job…if anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/2 "2025-03-24T22:55:41Z")
Hard to know without knowing what the current bidding is. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/3 "2025-03-24T23:21:57Z")
Well, is there someone from FAUX News lookin’ for work? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/4 "2025-03-24T23:24:55Z")
Is there anyone left over there that hasn’t already secured a spot in government? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/5 "2025-03-24T23:27:56Z")
I hear Chachi might be available. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/6 "2025-03-24T23:28:41Z")
I’m thinking Kevin Sorbo or Kirk Cameron. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/7 "2025-03-24T23:30:48Z")
John Ratzenberger: > **[John Ratzenberger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ratzenberger)** > > John Dezso Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Cliff Clavin on the comedy series Cheers, for which he earned two Primetime Emmy nominations. Ratzenberger reprised the role in the short-lived spin-off The Tortellis, an episode of Wings, as well as in an episode of Frasier. He has voiced various characters in several Pixar animated feature films including Hamm in the Toy Story franchise, The Abominable Snowman in the Monsters, Inc. f [As Seen On TV] ETA: This was the character Ratzenberger famously played on _Cheers:_ > **[Cliff Clavin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Clavin)** > > Clifford C. Clavin, Jr. (born 1947 or 1949) is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers played by John Ratzenberger. A postal worker, he is the bar's resident know-it-all. Cliff was not originally scripted in the series' pilot episode, "Give Me a Ring Sometime", but the producers decided to add a know-it-all character and Ratzenberger helped flesh it out. The actor made guest appearances as Cliff on The Tortellis, St. Elsewhere, Wings, and Frasier. > > The original script for... ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/8 "2025-03-24T23:35:07Z")
I’d suggest voting in person, next election. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/9 "2025-03-24T23:36:59Z")
Who’s CEO of Uber right now? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/10 "2025-03-24T23:48:12Z")
I never heard of Har Mar Superstar until I saw a story about how he got a temporary job as a mailman during COVID. > [@Har Mar Superstar - Mailman!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/har-mar-superstar-mailman/928592): > > I’ll admit it - I’d never heard of him until today, when this story showed up on my Facebook feed. Wiki makes it sound like he’s rather, ahem, colorful. He can’t do his usual shtick right now, so he might as well perform a needed public service and make some money at the same time, correct? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/11 "2025-03-24T23:53:21Z")
Doesn’t Mike Lindell need a job? He’s got some serious legal bills to pay and no visible mean of support. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/12 "2025-03-25T00:05:27Z")
Moderating: As there is no real debate framed here, the appointment will be political and the thread is little more than names being thrown out, let’s move this to P&E. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/13 "2025-03-25T01:01:04Z")
It was widely anticipated that DeJoy was appointed to guarantee that mail-in ballots would be mishandled. He didn’t even try, AFAIK and may have done a reasonable job ot modernising the post office. I am sure his successor will be more carefully vetted. Vote in person, as someone said above. Unfortunately, I cannot, being 1000 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/14 "2025-03-25T01:01:58Z")
Why should there be a postmaster general to replace him. Didn’t the current occupant of the Oval Office decide already to completely privatize the USPS? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/15 "2025-03-25T01:09:23Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t the current occupant of the Oval Office decide already to completely privatize the USPS? Not only that, but he also doesn’t like generals (generally). ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/16 "2025-03-25T06:53:49Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Didn’t the current occupant of the Oval Office decide already to completely privatize the USPS? Just appoint the CEO of UPS. They’ll get the job done of dismantling the post office for private gain, and they wouldn’t even need to alter their business cards that much, if at all. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/17 "2025-03-25T08:14:01Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Just appoint the CEO of UPS. They’ll get the job done of dismantling the post office for private gain, and they wouldn’t even need to alter their business cards that much, if at all. But if Trump can’t get any money out of it, he’ll be seeing green. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/18 "2025-03-25T15:23:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Who will probably get the job…if anybody? Kid Rock! Bumper nuts on every Grumman LLV! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/19 "2025-03-25T15:29:45Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Just appoint the CEO of UPS. To be fair, UPS is sort of a similar operation; delivers packages to every address in America, unionized workforce of hundreds of thousands, etc. The management issues are actually quite similar. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062/20 "2025-03-25T15:44:09Z")
I don’t know about you all, but I get USPS deliveries six days a week in my door-code-access-controlled building (at The Home) like clockwork with no problem. Getting UPS deliveries here is a hit-or-miss-crapshoot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-dejoy-is-out-who-do-you-think-will-take-his-place/1016062.md?page=2)