Having trouble with the USPS?

splitimageview said:
The new PG is called a 'logistics executive,' according to the Washington Post article linked above. He's not a politician.

Here is the internal document that the Post published, but that no one would go on the record to confirm.

My friend who recently retired as a local postmaster (30 years at the post) indicated that the document looks legit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/cont...-33442338d1cc/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_14

Clearly there are big problems internally, if one has to actually put in writing:

"The right mail must go on the right truck -- every time."

It also says: "As we adjust to the ongoing pivot, which will have a number of phases, we know that operations will begin to run more smoothly and that delayed mail volumes will soon shrink significantly."

Looks to me like the new PG is attempting to right a seriously sinking ship.

He's got a difficult task ahead.
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Louis DeJoy is a GOP top donor https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851976464/new-postmaster-general-is-top-gop-fundraiser. He has stocks in Fedex and UPS so this is another case of capitalist cannibalism and political tactics.
 
If a package is coming from California, FedEx routinely transfers the package at one of their processing stations that's about five miles from my house to send to the regional center which is about twenty five miles east. It sits there for a couple of days until transferring back to the station five miles from my house. Must make sense to them.
 
fort_wendy said:
Louis DeJoy is a GOP top donor https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851976464/new-postmaster-general-is-top-gop-fundraiser. He has stocks in Fedex and UPS so this is another case of capitalist cannibalism and political tactics.
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Many appointees of every administration of either party are donors, of course.

Actually he has at most $75m in assets with USPS "contractors or competitors."

The "competitors" in this case are UPS and JB Hunt and only count for $265,000 of this.

In other words, 99.6% of the assets are with USPS contractors...all of this disclosed to the Office of Government Ethics.

Bear in mind, USPS Board of Governors hired this guy unanimously; the board is bipartisan by law.

All the recent news articles appear to simply be the usual partisan Washington warfare.
 
Big donors/bundlers take all sorts of posts...Bush appointed 200 in 8 years, Obama appointed that many in his first 2 years...

This is a little different though; he was chosen by the bipartisan board of governors after an extensive search. Maybe that's fishy to some...

"The Board of Governors then began an extensive nationwide search, employing a national executive search firm to conduct the search with additional advisory services from Chelsea Partners. In the ensuing months, the Governors reviewed the records of more than two hundred candidates for the position before narrowing the list to more than fifty candidates to undergo substantial vetting. Subsequently, the Governors interviewed more than a dozen candidates in first round interviews, and invited seven candidates for follow-up interviews. A narrow list of finalists then underwent a final vetting process before the Governors made their decision."
 
You dont look at the politics of "bipartisan" appointees to head giant firms...you look at what they actually do...not what they appear to be or say..
People make good money..crushing companies..ala Romney..
Thats what is happening here..
As if..."Governors" had any ethics at all..other than the best way to make themselves and their cohorts..richer..
No matter what the cost to others..
 
Why the quotes? The board of governors is by law, bipartisan; no more than 5 out of the 9 can be of one party. And the vote to choose the new postmaster was unanimous.

It appears what he's doing, is what he was hired to do...but like everything in Washington, the party that isn't in power is going to make the job as difficult as possible.
 
Why the quotes?
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You actually believe..that either party cares about usps?
Both are crooked..its like asking Ford and Chevy..to support some other car company..when they have more to make by eliminating the competition..
Hence..the "quotes"
 
Virtually everyone in Washington is crooked, I’m with you there... that’s why they don’t like outsiders coming in and messing up their gravy train. Dejoy certainly qualifies in this regard.

The board doesn’t consist solely of public service/government though: “ at least four of the governors shall be chosen solely based on their demonstrated ability in managing organizations or corporations (in either the public or private sector) that employ at least 50,000 employees”
 
Unfortunately..overpaid CEO's..rip companies off..and in some cases ..destroy them completely..
See Sears..JCpenney..Kmart..and reams of others..
USPS..is no exception..
All that is needed is to remove the 75 year pension clause..and everything is dandy again..
Not hire some idiot CEO..to "manage" this 200 year old company...who stands to make bux..by its demise..
You dont make USPS solvent by decreasing service..and raising prices..and eliminating overtime..
You cut out stupid expenses..bringing the business down..thats the 75 year pension requirement..and more..
 
I'm about to get PO'd here.

Since COVID came along, my wife and I try to avoid going out unnecessarily. We order groceries online and go pick them up from curbside delivery. We buy as much as possible online. That means we get a lot of our necessary household items in the US Mail. Well, as of today, several items are late. Our dog's food is late and running low. Dog not happy if not fed. Amazon Prime delivers in two days but things bought from Amazon Prime now running late. We order a certain type of coffee beans that I grind for our daily brew and it is now late and nowhere to be tracked. I'm gonna be angry without my normal coffee. I get real mad when I don't get my morning coffee. Real mad.

Don't mess with my morning coffee, dammit!
 
Emile de Leon said:
Unfortunately..overpaid CEO's..rip companies off..and in some cases ..destroy them completely..
See Sears..JCpenney..Kmart..and reams of others..
USPS..is no exception..
All that is needed is to remove the 75 year pension clause..and everything is dandy again..
Not hire some idiot CEO..to "manage" this 200 year old company...who stands to make bux..by its demise..
You dont make USPS solvent by decreasing service..and raising prices..and eliminating overtime..
You cut out stupid expenses..bringing the business down..thats the 75 year pension requirement..and more..
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All those companies are going down because of online shopping and competition from places like Walmart who know how to run low-margin retail operations.

USPS has been losing money for years, much of which has to do with lower volume due to the internet...just like with retailers listed above. 30% less mail over a decade... Lower volume = less revenue. Yet their expenses are still there...hundreds of thousands of employees, tens of thousands of retail post offices, etc. etc.

When they tried putting PO counters in retail Staples, that was shut down by the labor union. By comparison, full shipping services are available for Fedex packages at Office Depot or Office Max. Imagine if the PO could shutter locations that are money-losers in favor of renting space in retail, like Fedex can do...that would be a considerable reduction in expense, and that's what the problem is...expenses are too high, and revenues are dropping.

Meanwhile, they are getting more competition from companies like Amazon who now operate their own delivery trucks...

Add in too many mid-level managers, more union issues (it's very difficult to ditch poor employees.) It's not simply about pensions, there are problems from top to bottom.

USPS needs a complete restructure, which is what he's doing.

Give the guy a chance, he's not trying to drive it into the ground, he's already made his money and nearly all of his assets are related to usps contractors so he has a vested interest to make things work.

All the recent chatter is the usual political garbage. None of this vote by mail is even necessary...if people can shop at Walmart in public wearing a mask, certainly they can cast a vote in public wearing a mask...
 
Except he was appointed by the USPS board of governors after an extensive search, as posted earlier.

Time to bow out of this, we'll see soon enough how well this guy revamps the organization, and whether the powers (politicians, National Labor Relations board) allow him to do the job or not.
 
splitimageview said:
USPS has been losing money for years, much of which has to do with lower volume due to the internet...just like with retailers listed above. 30% less mail over a decade... Lower volume = less revenue. Yet their expenses are still there...hundreds of thousands of employees, tens of thousands of retail post offices, etc. etc.
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Actually, the USPS was the only government agency that made a profit every single year until the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed - an absurd piece of legislature that put restrictions on the USPS that the federal government would never dream of putting on any private company - and gutted the USPS' ability to turn a profit.

splitimageview said:
they are getting more competition from companies like Amazon who now operate their own delivery trucks...
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They are currently engaged by Amazon in a lucrative contract that benefits both parties and generates a fair amount of income for the USPS.

splitimageview said:
Add in too many mid-level managers, more union issues (it's very difficult to ditch poor employees.) It's not simply about pensions, there are problems from top to bottom. USPS needs a complete restructure...
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You will get absolutely no argument from me about that! The USPS is an impossible bureaucracy that needs serious fixing.

Getting back to the OP, I live in NYC - Brooklyn to be exact - and there are quite a lot of post offices in Brooklyn. Some are doing a better job than others. The one in my neighborhood is really, really terrible and the increased volume of packages due to COVID-19 has only made it worse. While most of my mail makes it here eventually I have had more issues in the last couple of months than I have had in the last 10 years. I currently have a first-class package that's been in limbo for 16 days. I have opened an official USPS inquiry and nobody has gotten back to me in over 10 days. I imagine (wide-eyed optimism?) it will reach me eventually but I'd sure like to know why I paid first-class postage for a package that's taking this long to arrive.

I have had trouble at many NYC post offices over the years, both in Brooklyn and Manhattan but those issues were always resolved (usually resolved, to be completely honest) but the real difference I'm seeing at my local post office recently is that the staff doesn't even seem to care if the issues get sorted out or not. They don't seem to have any interest in actually getting the mail delivered and that's something I never saw in the past.

I'm angry that the USPS is being used as a political football and, sadly, that's not new to this administration as the PAEA demonstrates. I also don't have a lot of faith in the current powers-that-be to make it better rather than worse. The big push for privatization doesn't paint a picture I like the looks of.
 
Pentode said:
...the USPS was the only government agency that made a profit every single year until the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed...
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The entire "profit" argument is a red herring anyway. No other federal government agency is expecteded to make a profit. There's no rational basis, other than so-called conservatives' decades-long push to privatize everything (and thereby enrich themselves), to think the USPS would be profitable. How much profit does DOD earn? DHS? Zero, exactly the amount USPS ought earn.

For a long time those same "conservatives" have proclaimed "government should be run like a business." That's a load of BS. Businesses are operated for one and only one reason, namely, to make money for their owners. Government is established to serve the people, and for no other reason.
 
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