Only two weeks after Fed Ex delivered my letters to each of the seven sitting USPS governors, seeking to have Louis DeJoy replaced as Postmaster, and citing the many reasons why he must be ousted, DeJoy and his team put together an op ed for the Washington Post. Getting ahead of the media shit storm, Mr. Mail-in Ballot Suppressor?

He begins by rightfully blaming the 2006 Republican lame duck law, The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (a name as puckish as any of the wry German euphemisms of the late 1930s, arbeit macht frei, anyone?) that put the Post Office $55,000,000,000 in the hole to fund retirements fifty years into the future. The Postmaster, from his July 8th Washington Post op-ed/PR presentation:

We survived by suspending payments to our employee retirement fund, and deferring investments and maintenance on facilities, vehicles and equipment. This left the Postal Service workforce ill-prepared to deliver consistent, long-term service to the American public. . .

DeJoy shows this graph

. . . Three years later, our accomplishments have been significant. We worked with Congress to pass the Postal Service Reform Act, which eliminated unfair financial burdens that were placed on the Postal Service as a result of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. We have used our regulatory authority to make the pricing adjustments necessary to correct for more than a decade of defective pricing. . .

. . . By September 2023, 98 percent of Americans received their mail and packages within three days. Although we have slipped recently because of difficulties in overcoming our degraded operating conditions while opening new facilities, and remodeling and repositioning existing ones, we will soon be back to a performance level that can make the nation proud. . .

Now DeJoy starts in with his innovative cost cutting, efficiency improving (in the long run, if not in the short term, not, say, in time for the fall of 2024 — and mind you, a year ago we were at 98% on time, showing we can do it if we try) plan, Delivering for America (DFA). He runs the table with his glittering PR argument (minus any verifiable facts, on-time delivery data or other effects on actual postal customers) to the end of his op ed, which I reproduce without interruption. Note how his closing argument sets up the failing status quo (arranged by his radical right buddies in 2006) , which he posits is the only option to DFA, as an intolerable straw man at the end:

. . . Meanwhile, over the past three years, we have saved an estimated $2.5 billion annually by cutting approximately 50 million work hours; this fiscal year alone, we have reduced transportation costs by nearly $1 billion while significantly growing revenue and increasing our market share in the package delivery business. We have already invested more than $15 billion in renovating our facilities, acquiring new vehicles and equipment, and modernizing our technology. These investments provide our employees with the tools they need to perform their duties in today’s business environment, where we are required to compete with formidable commercial enterprises for our revenue. Along the way, we rapidly deployed our people, technology and logistics know-how to package and deliver more than 900 million coronavirus test kits to people across the nation in less than two days from ordering, confirming our role in the nation’s critical infrastructure.

Consequently, we have cut our projected 10-year losses from more than $160 billion to $65 billion, and we are working hard to eliminate the remaining losses over the next several years. Our progress clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of our plan, and it’s imperative we continue on this path.

“Delivering for America” is the only comprehensive strategy in existence that can save the Postal Service and empower this indispensable organization not just to survive but thrive. Now that we are on this path, we call on voices who continue to advocate the status quo to recognize that inaction has been proved to create a death spiral for the Postal Service. Our initiatives halt this decline, ready the Postal Service for today’s America and develop an institutional character to face the future. These self-help measures are critical for our operational and financial success. Waiting is not an option. Only by moving forward together can we build a modern Postal Service that will effectively meet the needs of the American people for generations to come.

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I trust this smirking fucking puto as far as I can throw him. How about you? No reason to be concerned that this asshole is in sole charge of mail-in ballots being delayed or delivered on time to be counted in an election expected to be unaccountably close?

Assume Biden wins the election by twenty million votes, and no mail-in ballots from Democratic areas in battleground states are counted. Guess which candidate who didn’t win the popular vote gets to be president again?