Fellow USPS supporters,

First I hope you're well. Especially all my fellow Texans who've been through hell this past week. You can check here if you're one of the counties that qualified for FEMA aid requested by Governor Abbot and approved by President Biden.

Louis Dejoy is back in the news, planning to slow down the mail and make it more expensive. It appears the USPS still isn't safe with him at the helm. It's no wonder - he has conflicting financial interests  and is sorely unqualified for the job.

President Biden isn't able to fire Dejoy outright.

We need to #FireLouisDejoy.

(Washington Post) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is preparing to put all first-class mail onto a single delivery track, according to two people briefed on his strategic plan for the U.S. Postal Service, a move that would mean slower and more costly delivery for both consumers and commercial mailers.
 
DeJoy, with the backing of the agency’s bipartisan but Trump-appointed governing board, has discussed plans to eliminate a tier of first-class mail — letters, bills and other envelope-sized correspondence sent to a local address — designated for delivery in two days. Instead, all first-class mail would be lumped into the same three- to five-day window, the current benchmark for nonlocal mail.

That class of mail is already struggling; only 38 percent was delivered on time at the end of 2020, the Postal Service reported in federal court. Customers have reported bills being held up, and holiday cards and packages still in transit. Pharmacies and prescription benefits managers have told patients to request medication refills early to leave additional time for mail delays. The agency has not disclosed on-time scores yet in 2021... (Click for full article)

Call your Senator to support H.R. 2382 - This bill repeals the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits.

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.