USPS letter volume has been on the decline for yrs , however they had new FSS sorting machines put in that handle the work of several of the other sorters so thier was already plans in action taking out the smaller sorters ,Send a thank you note to Louis DeJoy who was appointed to run the Post Office this past June.
Immediately after enacting new changes, which have been discussed ad nauseam, mail was late.
In fact, the Inspector General has examined this and found his changes have caused delays, lost
packages and enormous backlogs that affected everyone, especially small business owners and
the Veteran’s Administration’s mail delivery of prescription drugs to Vets. The situation is just awful.
However, last week a Federal Judge Stanley Bastian ruled that the changes DeJoy implemented
were improper since the very nature of what was done required prior approval of the USPS Board
of Governors. As an aside, the Judge noted his actions promoted voter disenfranchisement.
DeJoy has zero experience with the US Postal system, did not conduct impact studies of the changes
prior to being implemented which is standard operating procedure at USPS, never reviewed these
changes with the Board of Governors for their approval as is required and service started deteriorating
in June after he enacted these changes. Furthermore, yesterday another Federal Judge in New York
ruled that DeJoy must treat all election ballot mail as first class mail. Because of the things that DeJoy
has done, USPS service is not only being undermined but is being subjected to actual sabotage by him.
Two different Federal Judges have ruled to reverse the changes. So yes, USPS is experiencing serious
problems and sadly, it’s due to political motives. Remember that USPS has a 91% approval rating.
Now you can complain about service before DeJoy took over but any problems people are having since
this past June when he was at the helm, that’s on the politics of this and it’s obvious where it comes from.
Louis DeJoy’s greatest single job qualification was he is a major donor and fundraiser for the President.
Postal employees deserve better than getting blamed for problems created by this inept Postmaster General.
The union has had a problem with the newer type because it eliminates jobs , so there has been some funny business going on with how was being directed, leaving the FSS sortiers only working at 40 pct compacity, the false notion by the democratics saying they are taking the sorting machines out and inpacting the ability of the mail getting through is simply not the case , those FSS machines at 10 mil a pop can handle the load and then some ,
It's all about the transportation and extra mail handlers needed to handle the extra load , that's already stressed because of the high volume of ecomerence sales because of Covid ,
What a lot of people don't know is all of the delivery companies use USPS in some form so shipping through one of those doesn't always guarantee the mail stays in their hands
Just for the record I'm a supt for a general contractor and all I do is postal work going on 15 yrs and have done many jobs in multiple main sorting plants so I'm not plucking off the wall
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