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BumRushDaShow

(165,178 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:44 PM Mar 2025

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Resigns

Source: Huff Post/AP

Mar 24, 2025, 05:58 PM EDT


Louis DeJoy, the head of the U.S. Postal Service, resigned Monday after nearly five years in the position.

He said in a statement that he told the Postal Service Board of Governors that Monday would be his last day on the job. DeJoy had said in February that he had intended to step down but hadn’t set a date. Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino will take on the role until the Board names a permanent replacement.

“I believe strongly that the organization is well positioned and capable of carrying forward and fully implementing the many strategies and initiatives that comprise our transformation and modernization, and I have been working closely with the Deputy Postmaster General to prepare for this transition, DeJoy said in the statement.

He added that “much work remains that is necessary to sustain our positive trajectory.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/postmaster-general-resigns_n_67e1d489e4b07dbdc6db87b8



Bye Felicia.
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Resigns (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 OP
something good comes from trump...maybe nt msongs Mar 2025 #1
Sarcasm tag missing wolfie001 Mar 2025 #9
Likely someone worse than DeJoy will take his place. PufPuf23 Mar 2025 #22
Right? wolfie001 Mar 2025 #33
GOOD. FUCKING. RIDDANCE. AZ8theist Mar 2025 #2
Time to appoint bucolic_frolic Mar 2025 #3
Oh my! moose65 Mar 2025 #11
Or one of the pardoned J6ers? RazorbackExpat Mar 2025 #21
Oh! A piece of Good news, at last?!.... electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #4
Of course that's the point: trump is going to appoint someone horrendous. C Moon Mar 2025 #24
Planned........... Lovie777 Mar 2025 #5
getting ready to move it under commerce pimpbot Mar 2025 #6
Sure, *now* he resigns. To be replaced with someone who will destroy it faster. unblock Mar 2025 #7
Well, Some Good News, then! electric_blue68 Mar 2025 #8
What's Ric Flair up to these days? EarthFirst Mar 2025 #10
Practicing his "Woo" cry. sakabatou Mar 2025 #19
Remember the big deal test that everyone had to take to get a job at the USPS? elocs Mar 2025 #12
100%, same here. Ours is a gem, beloved. Truly. When she retires I don't know what we will do. mahina Mar 2025 #14
Who picks his replacement? Polybius Mar 2025 #13
A President recommends but the Board would need to approve the nominee. BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #29
So much for the captain going down with his ship. markodochartaigh Mar 2025 #15
WOW Southern Progressive Mar 2025 #16
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #35
That must mean that he has fu*ked the USPS beyond repair, so his job is done. usaf-vet Mar 2025 #17
Good riddance to bad rubbish. But I fear he'll be replaced by something worse. sakabatou Mar 2025 #18
Perhaps his mission was finished. BidenRocks Mar 2025 #20
I am feeling melancholy about this. Lasher Mar 2025 #23
Some crazy fox news host who hates mail will be picked Demovictory9 Mar 2025 #26
There is no DeJoy in Mudville. generalbetrayus Mar 2025 #25
What does "sustain our positive trajectory" mean? DFW Mar 2025 #27
Another candidate HarryM Mar 2025 #28
Just as the excitement over Kevin McCarthy's departure as Speaker of the House led to disappointment with his successor* Oopsie Daisy Mar 2025 #30
His part in the hatchet job to destroy and privatize the USPS is done Blue Dotty Mar 2025 #31
He retires happy and proud blubunyip Mar 2025 #32
USPS has a new contract after just 1 week of arbitration which usually takes a year. n/t elocs Mar 2025 #34
DeJoy quit so he can buy it at Trump's privatization auction. Mawspam2 Mar 2025 #36
The consensus among the carriers is that he quit because the USPS contract was elocs Mar 2025 #37

PufPuf23

(9,678 posts)
22. Likely someone worse than DeJoy will take his place.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 10:40 PM
Mar 2025

Not so eager to see what the future brings in degradation of the US Post Office.

Thank you for your optimism.

wolfie001

(6,963 posts)
33. Right?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:51 AM
Mar 2025

The new lady at the CDC seems like a rational pick. Maybe because of the potential threat from bird flu. Very Jeckyl & Hyde though.

moose65

(3,438 posts)
11. Oh my!
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:52 PM
Mar 2025

Whew!

Isn’t the USPS board independent? Can they elect their own postmaster general?

RazorbackExpat

(882 posts)
21. Or one of the pardoned J6ers?
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 10:02 PM
Mar 2025

One thing's for certain-- whoever's appointed will have absolutely no interest in maintaining the USPS as a viable public service

Lovie777

(21,580 posts)
5. Planned...........
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:05 PM
Mar 2025

musk got his greedy hands on the post office to privatizes it. Hopefully it will survive because shithole musk republicans will destroy and make it unworkable, like the other departments they are doing the same too.

pimpbot

(1,161 posts)
6. getting ready to move it under commerce
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:05 PM
Mar 2025

He did his dirty work for the past five years. Time to doge the usps.

This is yet another sticking point of why didnt Biden press harder for leadership change at usps. He had the ability to stack the board with friendlies yet the people he chose stayed with dejoy.

 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
12. Remember the big deal test that everyone had to take to get a job at the USPS?
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 06:55 PM
Mar 2025

That's long gone now and they hire people right off the street to work there.
It took my carrier of 6 years 7 years to become a carrier and get his own route. He has worked there for 30 years now and has put in his papers to retire this fall when he turns 62 because he has had enough of what the USPS has become.
He is a good Democrat and we have had some good talks on everything when he stops at the mailboxes in front of my house and takes his 15 minute lunch break there. He is a friend although this is the only place I ever see him and I'm sure that once he retires I will likely never see him again and that makes me sad because I will miss him greatly.

mahina

(20,341 posts)
14. 100%, same here. Ours is a gem, beloved. Truly. When she retires I don't know what we will do.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:22 PM
Mar 2025

BumRushDaShow

(165,178 posts)
29. A President recommends but the Board would need to approve the nominee.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:25 AM
Mar 2025

AND the Board would have been the ones needed to remove the Postmaster.

During the Obama administration, the GOP made sure to keep the Board nearly non-functional by refusing to confirm vacancies.

45 wants to violate yet more laws, fire the Board, and roll the whole thing under the Commerce Department.


H.R.17070 - Postal Reorganization Act (1970)

H.R.6407 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (2006)

H.R.3076 - Postal Service Reform Act of 2022

BidenRocks

(2,699 posts)
20. Perhaps his mission was finished.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:58 PM
Mar 2025

Check everything he did. Look for service killing time bombs.
He is evil.

Lasher

(29,365 posts)
23. I am feeling melancholy about this.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 11:40 PM
Mar 2025

It would normally be hard to imagine a replacement who would be worse than DeJoy. But in the current political climate, we'll go from the frying pan and into the fire.

DFW

(59,689 posts)
27. What does "sustain our positive trajectory" mean?
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 02:19 AM
Mar 2025

Does that mean that letters from Germany to the USA, that took five or six days to arrive ten years ago, and now take four weeks, will soon take six weeks to arrive?

That certainly does sound like a Republican version of a “positive trajectory,” alright.

HarryM

(444 posts)
28. Another candidate
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 03:16 AM
Mar 2025

for the bus to prison.
He has done more to screw up the Postal Service than anyone since Congress made them cover for 80 years of pensions.
Modernization, my ass. He threw out all the modernization, and replaced it with feces.
He only wanted to privatize it. Just what the Cons want.
AFAIC, he can go rot in prison with the rest of these greedy, evildoers.

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
30. Just as the excitement over Kevin McCarthy's departure as Speaker of the House led to disappointment with his successor*
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:12 AM
Mar 2025

Just as the excitement over Kevin McCarthy's departure as Speaker of the House led to disappointment with his successor, Johnson, who proved even more challenging, I fear that the current jubilation surrounding DeJoy's exit may result in a similar let-down. Brace yourselves for the possibility that things might deteriorate further without any miraculous improvements.

Blue Dotty

(163 posts)
31. His part in the hatchet job to destroy and privatize the USPS is done
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:09 AM
Mar 2025
Mar 15, 2025
Truthout.org
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Thursday announcement that the independent United States Postal Service is partnering with the Department of Government Efficiency on a cost-cutting crusade that includes a planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that one of America’s most trusted and relied-upon federal agencies is on a path toward privatization.

In a letter to congressional leaders, DeJoy said DOGE will help the USPS “in identifying and achieving further efficiencies.” The postal chief listed “mismanagement” of the agency’s retirement assets and workers’ compensation program, “unfunded mandates imposed on us by legislation,” and “burdensome regulatory requirements restricting normal business practice” as issues to be addressed.

“The letter suggests alarming actions for DOGE to pursue that would easily lead to the privatization and politicization of the Postal Service,” Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee said in response to the announcement. “This includes DeJoy’s call to gut or even terminate the Postal Regulatory Commission, the independent regulator of the Postal Service created by Congress and responsible for approving rate changes and ensuring appropriate service.”

DeJoy — who last month announced his intent to step down after more than four years in office — has led a dramatic restructuring of the USPS, a constitutionally sanctioned agency. His tenure has been marred by allegations of criminal election obstruction, conflicts of interest, and other corruption. Critics have also warned that DeJoy’s Delivering for America, a 10-year austerity plan, put the agency on a fast track toward slower service, job cuts, and, ultimately, privatization.


Letter to Congressional leaders from DeJoy in full article.
https://truthout.org/articles/postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-teams-up-with-doge-to-gut-usps/
 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
34. USPS has a new contract after just 1 week of arbitration which usually takes a year. n/t
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 04:39 PM
Mar 2025
 

elocs

(24,486 posts)
37. The consensus among the carriers is that he quit because the USPS contract was
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 09:36 AM
Mar 2025

settled in arbitration in just a week when it usually takes a year. Trump will not be happy that it was settled so quickly.

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