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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has slowed down its delivery starting on Friday. The new changes come from a blueprint by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to cut costs. “The service standard changes are part of our balanced and comprehensive Delivering for America Strategic Plan and will improve service reliability and predictability for customers and enhance the efficiency of the Postal Service network,” USPS said in a statement. “The service standard changes that we have determined to implement are a necessary step towards achieving our goal of consistently meeting 95 percent service performanc...
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The U.S. Postal Service has sealed a five-year contract that cost $120 million with XPO Logistics, a company that has financial ties to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. DeJoy has previously worked as XPO’s supply chain chief executive from 2014 to 2015. Since he took became the postmaster, DeJoy has divested roughly in between $65.4 million and $155.3 million worth of his XPO shares. DeJoy’s family businesses will continue to lease office buildings to XPO, which is expected to generate up to $23.7 million to DeJoy and his family over the next decade, according to a person who spoke to The Washi...
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The United States Postal Service’s new vehicle design began as an Internet joke for its odd shape, and now the House Oversight and Reform Committee now has demanded that the deal between the USPS and Oshkosh Defense be rescinded. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-New York), chairwoman of the Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy asking that he release the USPS from the contract, citing that the fact that Postmaster General ignored the federal government’s requirements for the new vehicles. The USPS’s new vehicles are required to incorporate electric powertrain engines, but...
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The United States Postal Service held a press conference last week announcing they had awarded a $482 million contract to Oshkosh Defense to design new delivery vehicles for the agency. The model from Oshkosh Defense, however, has not been received as positively as the U.S.P.S. may have hoped. “Looks like sh-t,” said Mike Isaacs, tech reporter for the New York Times. A Twitter poll now with more than 215,000 votes found that 40.2% of users found the design “sleek and cool” while 59.8% called it “an ugly duckling.” The new trucks will host a suite of modern features including 360-degree cameras...
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In a House hearing on Wednesday, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy admitted that the Postal Service has “persistent problems” and that the agency “fell far short of meeting out service targets” during 2020. DeJoy, an ally and donor to former President Donald Trump, was appointed in May 2020 and stirred outrage from Postal workers and Democrats alike when he ordered mass-removal of mail sorting machines nationwide andseverely cut overtime for employees during the pandemic. When questioned by the House Oversight Committee, DeJoy stood by his controversial measures telling Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenness...
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Ahead of Congress’ formal investigation of U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, many members of Congress have taken to Twitter this week to call for his resignation. These calls come after weeks of accusations that DeJoy has been meddling in the election by making postal service cuts, engaging in illegal straw donor plots and lying to Congress.Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) lashed out at DeJoy, saying, “it isn’t just me who wants him gone: it’s the American people.”Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) accused DeJoy of blocking key documents from being obtained by Congress, including...
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The U.S. Postal Service has paid Postmaster General Louis DeJoy‘s former company millions in recent weeks.A public records request by the New York Times showed the company XPO Logistics and its subsidiaries received $14 million in the past 10 weeks, compared to in 2019 when it received $3.4 million during the same period, and $4.7 million in 2018.DeJoy served as the chief executive of the supply chain business and board member until 2018.An XPO Logistics spokesperson told The Hill that the payments were part of a contracted signed last December, nearly half a year prior to DeJoy being named po...
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