Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced Tuesday a ten-year plan for the United State Post Office (USPS) that includes post office hour cuts and longer mail delivery times to address a budget shortfall.
A New York judge ordered the U.S. Postal Service to prioritize election mail Monday and to approve overtime for postal workers.
On the front page of the August 24 edition of The Washington Post, the headline was, “More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected in the primaries. That could make the difference in battleground states this fall.”
Democrat Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper taunted Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during Monday’s House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing.
Several left-leaning organizations, including MoveOn, the Working Families Party, and the NAACP, organized a protest called #SaveThePostOfficeSaturday, which asks Americans to demand that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resign from his position.
“He’s a fantastic man, he wants to make the Post Office great again,” Trump said at a press conference at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey on Saturday evening.
U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan told a House committee last week that the Postal Service could ‘collapse’ in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
