I’ve been using Informed Delivery for awhile now, but I do not understand why they introduced it. Does it make money some how?
Because the post of SCJ is “sexier.” Most people probably haven’t noticed or care about the effect of DeJoy on their post service
Our home delivery is VERY erratic. I would estimate that we receive mail no more than 4 days a week - and we often get regular mail on Sundays! Very irregular delivery times as well. Sometimes it is unbelievably quick, others, more than a week.
Really a shame, as the reliability of the USPS is something that has been ingrained in me for decades.
Recent TIME article says that Louis DeJoy was instrumental in getting the Republicans to sign on to the postal reform bill, and also that the USPS will be fully electric vehicles by 2026:
I’m confused. I distinctly remember a few years ago they decided on the new fleet of trucks. The design aesthetic was goofy looking, but that part is irrelevant. What was infuriating was that it was very much internal combustion engines, not electric. Even more infuriating was that this ICE fleet was expected to be in service for decades to come.
Did that weird-looking gas-powered revision get scrapped? I thought they already started production a couple years ago.
The Lordstown factory in Ohio was in the process of retooling to build the electric trucks the Postal Service had ordered, until they canceled the order. Yeah, it takes work to make new vehicles, but the work was being done.
This is what I’m remembering:
The U.S. Postal Service is pressing forward with its plan for a new fleet dominated by internal combustion engines despite objections from environmental groups, the Biden administration and Capitol Hill Democrats pushing it to aggressively embrace electric vehicles.
“DeJoy’s plans for the postal fleet will drag us back decades with a truck model that gets laughable fuel economy. We may as well deliver the mail with hummers,” said Adrian Martinez, senior attorney on Earthjustice’s Right to Zero campaign. “DeJoy’s environmental review is rickety, founded on suspect calculations, and fails to meet the standards of the law. We’re not done fighting this reckless decision.”
Apparently that plan is no longer happening?
So it may be that we were incorrect that DeJoy was a Trump toady, and instead he is an all purpose toady who will follow the orders of whomever is at the top, be it Trump of Biden.
Um, isn’t this what you expect from a cabinet-level position? He’s supposed to work for the President as part of the executive branch.
That would seem to negate the purpose of it being an elected* position. The president can’t fire him.
That said, if the article is correct, it doesn’t sound like he’s a toady at all. It sounds more like he made a dumb mistake that looked like he was helping Trump, and now is trying to make up for it and save his reputation.
*As in, elected by a board, not the general public.
It’s not an elected position, it’s an appointed position. Just like every other cabinet position, with the added layer of the appointed board. It’s still part of the executive branch. I think DeJoy is a hack, but criticizing the PMG for doing what the current President wants is pretty weird, it’s clearly part of the mandate (not all of it of course).
The current structure was implemented primarily to curb cronyism, not to make it somehow wholly independent of the executive.
In general, yes, but Ideally you would want them to push back against something that is unethical or destructive to the agency they are supposed to be running.
No one said anything about “wholly independent.” He was accused of being a toady, someone who does what they’re told no matter what. That isn’t his job. If it were, then the president would be able to fire him.
Just because someone works for the executive branch doesn’t mean the president can tell them exactly what to do.
There’s no evidence of that in anything shared here. Your statement was not qualified, and implies that him adapting to the preferences of the POTUS is by its definition a sign of low character,
Up to a point, it does. It’s silly to suggest otherwise. The degree to which Trump has broken our ideas of what is normal is quite sad.