When he ordered postal trucks to “run on time” in July 2020, he set off a chain of events that led to a slowdown of mail delivery for weeks as trucks left their depots without any mail. DeJoy is a prickly but flexible businessman who has at times struggled to adapt to operating within the constraints of a government bureaucracy.

These potentially dramatic changes are a chief reason why the postal unions have embraced the self-made man who shares some of their blue-collar roots. And it adds new services, such as partnerships with local retailers to help them compete with Amazon. It converts more than 100,000 part-time employees to full-time. The plan grows the agency, building new processing centers and centralizing the delivery network. Drawing on his decades as a business executive, when he built and sold a logistics firm worth north of $600 million, DeJoy is enacting a 10-year plan-apart from the reforms-that aims to remake a delivery service that deals increasingly less with traditional mail and more with packages. His Nixon-to-China-like efforts on the postal reform bill helped DeJoy secure a broad mandate to transform the agency. “There’s no way we could have gotten votes without Louis DeJoy,” says Jim Sauber, the chief of staff for the National Association of Letter Carriers at the time. When President Joe Biden signed the landmark legislation into law two months later, it guaranteed a union-friendly version of six-day mail service and stabilized health coverage for the 650,000 USPS employees. But by the time Schumer called him on that frigid winter night, DeJoy was on his way to convincing congressional Republicans-120 in the House and 29 in the Senate-to buy into a lengthy Democratic wish list of postal reforms. DeJoy may be best known as the Trump-era GOP megadonor the left accused of meddling with mail-in voting to subvert the 2020 election. The second most powerful Democrat in America wanted to know how the whip count was coming.Īs it happened, the count was coming along very nicely. It was Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. But as he settled in, his cell phone rang and, pulling it out, he saw who was calling and could already guess why. The Postmaster General was locked in a grueling, monthslong battle with Congress over a bill to shake up the Postal Service. None.Louis DeJoy thought his workday was done as he arrived home one evening in February 2022. Locally, there are other options too.īut the “that” part - it will be different for every shipper. Mr, undeniable conflict of interest isn’t the best choice for that job, to be sure, but wherever this falls out, it will remain true that there’s a cut off in weight and size (and sometimes destination) that with all else equal, will render USPS as best value, above that UPS, and above that, FedEx. And that ‘repeal windfall’ now needs to start patching 15 years of infrastructure and asset neglect. But it only covers what was being overspent. Rate increase arguments notwithstanding, and there’s no denying ‘oversight’ is needed - though it was Congress that created the mess in the first place - there is a cost savings realized from operational simplification. More of a reaction than a plan there, given the unpredictability of the past 30 months or so, and looking ahead. The elimination of zone and region rate boxes, beyond saving costs of producing them as separate bulk orders and then administrating a suitable distribution based on collecting and analyzing use data (another labor drain), is also due in part to the USPS reduced reliance on air assets for hub to hub transport. My statement 'Keep spending time on time wasting 'enhancements' like item specifics eBay' was directed at eBay, not you. You did add 'First class 0.60 mail has gone through the roof' which I overlooked. It is hard to discern because you did not specify that in your first post.you just said 2 or 3 packages. You may have meant that you are only shipping 2 or 3 Priority packages per week. Congratulations to you as it appears that this is not the case for your business. I pasted your quote because it appeared to me, by your statement, that you were shipping only 2 or 3 packages per week and I found that statement inline with the fact that I am shipping far fewer packages due to the fact that eBay's sales have slowed. You stated 'Packages shipped each week has gone from 75 - 100 to maybe 2 or 3.' In your response to me you state 'We sell hundreds of items a week.'

GetAGrip, I think that you completely misread my post or I misread yours. USPS 2023 Rates May Include End of PM Regional, Zone Changes

Usps changes coming