PMG DeJoy Archives - Save the Post Office

Rachel Maddow on the potential demise of DeJoy

Steve HutkinsNovember 24, 2021Blog

Rachel focuses on President Biden’s changes to the USPS Board of Governors “that apparently are finally going to clear the way to getting rid of that guy,” PMG Louis DeJoy.

New book examines the attack on the people’s post office and the fight to defend it

Steve HutkinsNovember 8, 2021Blog, Slideshow

“First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat,” by historian Christopher Shaw, is hot off the presses.

Communities and Postal Workers United: Fall 2021 Newsletter

Steve HutkinsSeptember 28, 2021Blog, Slideshow

CPWU reports on efforts by postal workers to stop the nationwide slowdown of First Class mail on October 1.

Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination

SteveJune 28, 2021Blog, Slideshow

Briefs and Replies have been submitted for the PRC’s Advisory Opinion on the USPS plan to slow down First Class mail. Here’s my Reply Brief.

Postal historian asks the PRC to return the Postal Service to a mission of service

Steve HutkinsJune 11, 2021Blog, Featured

Former letter carrier Phil Rubio says the way forward for the USPS is to reject DeJoy’s service standard cutbacks

Postal advocate testifies against reducing USPS service standards

SteveJune 8, 2021Blog, Slideshow

Postal advocate Douglas Carlson tells the PRC how slowing down the mail will cause a range of problems at his institution.

How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail

SteveMay 21, 2021Blog, Featured, Slideshow

There is much in the proposed legislation to recommend it, but there is no reason for Section 208 to be included. Congress should not be facilitating Postmaster General DeJoy’s efforts to slow down the mail.

Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter

SteveApril 5, 2021Blog

The Spring 2021 Newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s ten-year plan, ironically named “Delivering for America”; the “People’s Postal Agenda” discussed at the online conference put on by the Grand Alliance to Save the Public Postal Service; Charlotte postal workers protesting mistreatment and harassment; and Washington state’s postal workers pushing to … Read More

The Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast

SteveFebruary 22, 2021Blog, Slideshow

The PMG wants to change service standards; the House Committee on Oversight and Reform wants to change the law.

Back to the Future: The USPS, PRC and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA

SteveFebruary 19, 2021Blog, Slideshow

The rate case is now in the DC Circuit, where the parties are arguing about what Congress meant when it gave the PRC authority to establish a new rate system.

The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts

SteveFebruary 14, 2021Slideshow

The PRC has been scrutinizing on-time service performance and requesting data about the scope and causes of mail delays

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Winter 2021 Newsletter

SteveFebruary 2, 2021Blog

The CPWU Winter 2021 Newsletter has articles about why Postmaster General DeJoy should be dumped, the possible implications of the Senate going Democrat, and the contrast between DeJoy’s vision and what a public vision of the Postal Service looks like. Read the newsletter here.

Rachel Maddow on the potential demise of DeJoy

New book examines the attack on the people’s post office and the fight to defend it

Communities and Postal Workers United: Fall 2021 Newsletter

Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination

Postal historian asks the PRC to return the Postal Service to a mission of service

Postal advocate testifies against reducing USPS service standards

How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail

Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter

The Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast

Back to the Future: The USPS, PRC and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA

The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Winter 2021 Newsletter

Updates on the USPS Service Performance Reports

Lawsuits against DeJoy, USPS & Trump over mail delays and election mail

Stop girdling the Post Office

DeJoy’s 57 Varieties of Cost Cutting: What’s in the new OIG report—and what’s not?

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