# The Postmaster General **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 11, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-postmaster-general/1011473 "2024-12-11T03:19:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-postmaster-general/1011473/1 "2024-12-11T03:19:28Z")
He’s been in the news lately, and seeing him always makes me wonder: why does he even want that job? Was it just to somehow hamstring the post office in trump’s favor? I guess mission accomplished- he’s in office. So why would he want to stay? Sounds like drudgery to me. We know the guy is wealthy because it was a donation to trump that bought him the position, so he’s probably doing ok. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2024, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-postmaster-general/1011473/2 "2024-12-11T06:07:32Z")
You mean Louis DeJoy, the founder and [CEO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO) of the logistics and freight company [New Breed Logistics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPO_Logistics) and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately-owned competitor to the [public-private partnership](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-private_partnership) of the USPS entity whose companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest: > **[Embattled postal leader is Trump donor with deep GOP ties](https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-politics-business-nc-state-wire-aedcc34674344793961666fe82d6d257)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — Louis DeJoy, the embattled leader of the U.S. Postal Service, is the first postmaster general in nearly two decades who is not a career postal employee. This fuckin’ guy? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-postmaster-general/1011473/3 "2025-02-18T19:00:21Z")
> The US postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, said on Tuesday he had asked the [US Postal Service](https://www.theguardian.com/business/us-postal-service) (USPS) governing board to identify his successor. > > In November, DeJoy warned that the post office, which has lost more than $100bn since 2007, must continue to cut costs or will remain on the path to either a “government bailout or the end of this great organization as we know it”. > > USPS did not say when DeJoy – who has headed the agency since 2020 – plans to step down. His announcement comes weeks after [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) took office. > **[US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/18/usps-postmaster-louis-dejoy-steps-down)** > > Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential ‘end of this organization’ ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-postmaster-general/1011473/4 "2025-02-19T04:01:23Z")
DeJoy started to get good press in the Biden years when he started working with the Democrats on needed USPS innovations. > **[Louis DeJoy's Surprising Second Act](https://time.com/6263424/louis-dejoy-trump-election-postal-reform/)** > > Initially cast as a Trumpian villain, Louis DeJoy is quietly delivering for the Postal Service, and Democrats > The notion that DeJoy, 65, would help advance a key Democratic agenda item would have seemed unfathomable a few years ago. But to the astonishment of many in Washington, the man Democrats once denounced as a threat to American democracy has become one of their most important allies in government. Defying the far right, he delivered more than 500 million COVID-19 test kits to Americans in the winter of 2022. Crossing conservatives last December, he agreed to transition the Postal Service’s entire fleet to electric vehicles by 2026. DeJoy’s capstone collaboration with Democrats was the Postal Service Reform Act, which is arguably the most bipartisan piece of major legislation in the Biden era, drawing 10 more GOP Senate votes than the $1 trillion infrastructure bill. [Louis DeJoy: From Trump villain to Biden’s clean energy buddy](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/13/how-louis-dejoy-went-from-democratic-nightmare-fuel-to-biden-clean-energy-player-00110945) > Now, nearly three years later, DeJoy isn’t just still standing atop the U.S. Postal Service, he’s become a critical player in Biden’s environmental agenda, striking a partnership with the president’s green guru, John Podesta, as USPS considers an environmental renaissance of its fleet. Yeah, that fuckin’ guy. The Board who will appoint the new PG has 3 Reps, 2 Dems, and an Ind. We won’t see anyone near as good as DeJoy, even with all his faults, which I freely admit.