Washington
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Louis DeJoy, head of the US postal service, said he intends to step down on Tuesday after nearly five years of tenure marked by the coronavirus pandemic. Service cut.
In a letter Monday, Postmaster DeJoy asked the Postal Service Committee to begin searching for a successor.
“You know, I have put in tireless efforts to lead 640,000 men and women in the postal service to achieve an incredible transformation,” he writes. “We have served the American people through an unprecedented pandemic and an era of high inflation and sensational politics.”
DeJoy took the helm of the post office in the summer of 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term. He was a Republican donor who owned the logistics business before taking office, and the first postmaster in nearly 20 years to be a career postal employee.
Dejoy has developed a 10-year plan to modernize operations and STEM losses. He previously said postal customers should get used to hiking at “uncomfortable” rates, as the post office aims to stabilize their finances and become more self-sufficient.
The plan calls for more efficient and cost-saving email delivery systems by integrating email processing centres. Critics, including members of several state legislative sessions, say the initial integration slows down services and further integration could particularly hurt rural postal delivery.
Dejoy objected to it, and in September, he told the U.S. House Subcommittee in the discussions in September that the post office set out to a longer-term investment in “rat” facilities and delivered the mail more quickly. He said he made other changes to create the service. .
DeJoy also oversaw the post office in two presidential elections that surged by mail.
Prior to the 2020 presidential election, federal judges restricted one of the postal services’ cost-cutting practices after contributing to delays in postal delivery. Dejoy has halted the agency’s long-standing practice of limiting payments for postal workers overtime and allowing additional truck delivery late in the summer of 2020. This move left me with some emails the next day.
DeJoy said in his letter that he had promised to “help as much as possible in promoting the transition.”
