USPS News Link – 7/9/20 – In his first letter to USPS employees, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy expresses his pride in their service to the American people and his eagerness to work with them to secure the organization’s future.
“I commit to working with you to create a long-term, viable operating model for the Postal Service that will ensure the organization can fulfill its public service mission in a financially sustainable manner,” DeJoy writes. “America wants and deserves a financially strong Postal Service that can invest in the future and adapt to the tremendous opportunities that lie ahead. Together, we will put the Postal Service on a successful trajectory for generations to come.”
DeJoy, who in June became the nation’s 75th Postmaster General, also discusses employees’ “amazing response” to the coronavirus pandemic, which he says “demonstrates the indispensable role of our organization in the life of the nation and helped us earn a deeper level of trust and support from the public.”
The Postmaster General also discusses his career, including more than 35 years growing and managing a nationwide logistics company.
“We were successful as a business by delivering value to those we served and by continually earning the loyalty of our customers. These are also fundamental attributes of the Postal Service,” he writes.
USPS mailed the letter to employees’ homes last week.
DeJoy previously addressed employees in an all-employee video message that was distributed throughout the organization during his first week.
Share your feedback at uspslink@usps.gov. Your comments could be included in the “Mailbag” column.
Immediately revert back to being POD, another government agency just as it was originally!
Next reduce deliveries to 5 days a week!
My letter carrier showed me a very small amount of letters and flats he had for the day but the amount of parcels was purely insane. This job is like a UPS route nowadays. The starting times have been moved up to 9 AM with the summer heat. Of course, they are hounding him every day for “under time” just by going off of the letter and flat count and not counting parcels. The parcels were easily 3 times more volume than Christmas time. Thank you Jesus for getting me out of there a few years ago. God speed to those who are closing in on retirement.
Time to implement 5 day delivery of mail and seven day parcel packaging. Retired 1 year ago and the job has been getting worse very year. Routes are longer with later starting times. It must be a nightmare now with Covid 19 and no contract for letter carriers yet.
Nice, a little pat on the back before a huge foot up our asses. PO management has been riding craft employees since 9/11. You’ve squeezed all you can from us. Time to focus on management and pricing restructuring.
We have a number of problems, but first and foremost we have a huge, inflexible bureaucracy that must be cut. Any job that is not front line and doesn’t touch the mail should be eliminated if possible. The next thing should be the moving on of those employees that can no longer do their jobs. There are positions that these people can fill but many are just milking the system and only want to achieve one goal-get off the street. Promotions should be based on merit, not race or the buddy system. This is harsh but true.
Looking forward to improvements. When I share the news of a new PMG to those calling 1-800-ask-USPS, my QA scores get lowered because I’m sharing unnecessary information. Sigh. I sent a few ideas to PMG DeJoy via his foundation link.. We’ll see what happens….