Why do I get the impression that this Mr. “DeJoy” is actually Mr. Sender from The Stupids movie? 
There’s evidence the damage is already done and him saying “ok, we’ll stop messing stuff up” is just a ruse:
Also this:
Appalling, but not surprising.
Trump rails about mail-in voting. The USPS is suddenly being ravaged. Just a remarkable coincidence, that has nothing to do with Trump talking about how mail-in voting will be fixed to cost him the election. And definitely has nothing to do with a pandemic happening that might cause more people to want to vote by mail. Nope, just all a coincidence.
Next you’ll be telling me when Trump said that he hoped Russia would find Hillary’s emails, that he had no idea that it was going to be happening. Just all a coincidence.
It is truly remarkable how these sorts of things always seem to happen to Trump.
The post office is unlike any other federal agency. They are supposed to be self funding. Thus no other agency has to pre fund retirement benefits.
There is a difference between a covid bailout and the post office bailout. The post office was losing billions a year before covid and the 25 billion bailout without changing business practices is just the beginning. Covid bailouts were to help businesses keep employees during a temporary crisis, not to temporarily pour money down the rat hole of a failed business.
I’m going to laugh at all the Trump voters who live in rural areas that no longer can get their mail, packages, medications, or even live chicks delivered.
Honestly, even if we did get rid of the oldest govt agency, one older than the constitution itself, it would only hurt most liberals in that they actually care about their fellow countrymen, and would be saddened to see even the Trump supporters who voted for this suffer.
I’ve never quite gotten the irrational hatred that people like yourself express for the post office.
The post office saw a dramatic drop during the COVID crisis, too:
The U.S. Postal Service could be another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.
“A lot of businesses have ceased to do advertising through the mail,” says Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., “and as a result, mail volume has collapsed.”
He says the decline could be as much as 60% by the end of the year, which he says would be “catastrophic” for the agency.
From here: COVID-19 Is Harming The U.S. Postal Service Too : NPR
In any case, what’s the next step? Let the post office collapse? Bring it back under the federal government? Also, please provide a cite that the post office is unlike any other federal agency – the housing agencies were self-funding, for example (until they blew up in the last crisis). Next time you post, please bring cites – I extend that courtesy to you.
I don’t have an irrational hatred of the post office. They have an unsustainable business model because they have a monopoly in a dying business and they do not have the flexibility to cut costs. If I were in charge I would allow them to renegotiate with their unions, cut back on mail delivery, and focus on delivering packages, which is a growing business. This would not only save the post office but save the taxpayers tens of billions of dollars. What I hate is the idea that a business that is currently 25 billion in the hole, and will soon be 75 billion in the hole is just fine. Every year that passes without reform is another couple billion they will have to be bailed out.
There are plenty of fine reasons to hate Trump if you want to, but the postal service problem is one decades in the making and has almost nothing to do with him.
That’s the only thing that I can think of that they could possibly want. That way, the private market takes over all those routes.
And they will take over the profitable ones.
The unprofitable ones will simply be abandoned, along with the people on them.
Is the best time to do the reform right before an election during a pandemic?
Is the best type of reform removing efficient sorting machines?
They don’t have a monopoloy, that’s actually one of the reasons that they are struggling.
It used to be, that if you wanted to send someone a letter, you had no choice but to use USPS. There were even laws to that effect, to where it was actually illegal to send correspondence via anything but USPS mail.
Removing that monopoly allowed private companies to compete where it was profitable, but left the USPS having to continue the routes that were not.
If they cut back on mail delivery, then does that just mean that mail doesn’t get delivered? I get letters from the state from time to time that need to be responded to in a pretty short period of time. If I cannot rely on the mail to get it to me, and then return it to the agency in time, then I may find myself having a higher unemployment or worker’s comp rate.
Another thing that they are unlike their competitors is that they cannot raise their rates without permission from a congressional appointed committee. You talk all about cutting costs and services, would you be down for increased shipping and mailing rates?
And has been explained, the only reason that the post office (prior to covid) was in the red is because congress added substantially to their costs in requiring them to prefund their retirement packages further out than any agency of company has ever been required to.
True that it has been decades in the making that conservatives have been trying to dismantle the USPS, but that doesn’t absolve Trump of being the one who has increased the harm and accelerated the demise that the conservatives have been wanting all along.
Anyway, this is all beside the point. @puddleglum said it was a conspiracy theory.
puddleglum, do you think it’s a conspiracy theory that the president is refusing any additional funding for the post office, with the express purpose of hobbling the delivery of mail-in ballots? Because that seems to be a fact.
If not that, then what’s the conspiracy theory?
Uh, what?
I edited my typo. I meant “via anything but USPS mail.”
The best time to reform it is twenty years ago and the second best time is now. They have been making changes for years. See this blog from 2012
"Given that pricing adjustments are off the table, setting an optimal network requires making some choices among customers. The Postal Service has little chosen but to focus on the current expectations of bulk mail and Priority Mail customers and fit service levels provided to other customers around what that network can provide. This makes sense given the expectations of volume growth (or losses) over the next decade for the full range of current Postal Service products.<
The change from first class mail to package delivery means they need fewer mail sorting machines. See this post from 2015 about mail processing consolidations.
Sure, maybe the best to reform it was 20 years ago. The questions remains given that it wasn’t reformed 20 years ago, was the best time to do the reforms a couple of months before an election during an epidemic?
Needing fewer machines does not necessitate removing and destroying them. Especially not just before an election where mail-in votes are expected to be on the rise. Right? I mean that seems kind of counterintuitive doesn’t it? Or is that just me?
Should probably notify people of the repercussions of reform, or they end up opening up a package of dead chicks with their children.
You clearly didnt read the Poltifact article above.
Next time, they should take a peep inside to check before opening.
