Protect Postal Workers - Fire Louis DeJoy!
Petition to President Biden:
Trump-appointed Postmaster
General Louis DeJoy’s policies have been a disaster for USPS workers and customers. We urge you to nominate Postal Board of Governors candidates who will fire DeJoy for his failed leadership, and advocate strongly for the expansion of USPS services already authorized by Congress.
Why is Trump crony Louis DeJoy still the head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)?
His tenure has been a disaster for USPS workers. Trump appointed DeJoy in 2018 to oversee privatization of the postal service. Since then, DeJoy has cut postal worker staffing by over 30 million hours just this year, and dramatically reduced wages for two thirds of rural mail carriers.1
Overworked, underpaid carriers are currently working through record-breaking heat waves, often in trucks that lack air conditioning. Multiple USPS workers have died in the past two years from heat related illness, including one in Texas this summer.2
DeJoy has plans to keep cutting the USPS, and to make life more miserable for workers.3 President Biden needs to step in right now and stop this Trump-appointee from doing any more damage.
DeJoy’s plans have also been a failure for everyone who uses the post office. Mail prices have gone up, and delivery has slowed down. Service cuts have been felt especially hard in rural and Indigenous communities, where broadband is scarce and for-profit delivery companies often don't provide service.4
Even local newspapers are hurting under DeJoy’s new policies. The USPS recently raised the costs of delivery for publications by one third. The cost increases pose an existential threat to much of the local press. When government agencies have criticized such changes, DeJoy aggressively moved to shut down all criticism and oversight.5
DeJoy is a one-man wrecking crew for the U.S. Postal Service. He needs to go. President Biden must nominate Postal Board of Governors candidates who will fire DeJoy for his failed leadership, and advocate strongly for the expansion of USPS services already authorized by Congress.
Sources:
- Government Executive, “USPS continues to lose more money than expected,” August 9, 2023.
- ABC, “Family, friends mourn loss of Dallas USPS mail carrier who died on this route,” July 1, 2023.
- Truthout, “DeJoy’s 10-Year Plan Could Gut USPS. He Doesn’t Want You to Know the Details,” August 7, 2023.
- Vox, “If the US Postal Service fails, rural America will suffer the most,” April 16, 2020.
- Duluth News Tribune, “End DeJoy's, the USPS's war on local newspapers,” August 15, 2023.