{"id":29188,"date":"2020-08-24T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=29188"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:00:04","slug":"pmg-dejoy-admits-that-mail-delays-are-far-worse-than-expected-but-fails-to-take-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/08\/24\/pmg-dejoy-admits-that-mail-delays-are-far-worse-than-expected-but-fails-to-take-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"PMG DeJoy Admits That Mail Delays Are Far Worse Than Expected, But Fails to Take Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following is from the Democrat Controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington, D.C. (Aug. 24, 2020)\u2014At a hearing today before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy admitted that massive delays in mail, medications, and other critical supplies caused by his sweeping changes are far worse than he anticipated or previously disclosed to Congress and the American people, finally conceding:\u00a0 \u201cWe are very concerned with the deterioration in service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Committee Members obtained a number of commitments from DeJoy, but reserved the option of issuing a subpoena if he continues withholding information.<\/p>\n

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  • Potential Subpoena for Withheld Documents:<\/strong>? After obtaining internal Postal Service documents showing delays far worse than the Postmaster General previously acknowledged, Chairwoman Maloney gave\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0a deadline of this Wednesday to produce a range of other documents he has been withholding from Congress, warning that he can \u201cexpect a subpoena\u201d if he continues to withhold this information.<\/li>\n
  • Reversal on Communications with Trump Campaign:<\/strong>? Under questioning from Rep. Gerald\u00a0Connolly,\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0reversed his Friday testimony before the Senate denying any communications with the Trump campaign, instead testifying:? \u201cI\u2019ve spoken to people that are friends of mine that are associated with the campaign, yes.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Calendars and Conflicts:<\/strong>? Under questioning from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DeJoy\u00a0admitted communicating with employees and officials from his former company, XPO Logistics, and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez suggested that a subpoena would be warranted if\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0fails to produce his official calendars detailing meetings, calls, and other communications with XPO and others since becoming PMG.<\/li>\n
  • Denying Responsibility:<\/strong>? When confronted by multiple Members about detailed reports of delays,\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0repeatedly denied responsibility or professed ignorance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • On Why Delays of Days Turned\u00a0Into\u00a0Weeks:<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0Under questioning by Vice Chairman Jimmy Gomez about why delays of days in mail delivery have turned into weeks,\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0responded, \u201cI\u2019m trying to figure that out.\u201d<\/li>\n
    • On\u00a0Why\u00a0His\u00a0Changes\u00a0Caused\u00a0Massive\u00a0Delays:<\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0Under\u00a0questioning\u00a0from\u00a0Rep. Lacy Clay\u00a0about\u00a0if he\u00a0considered\u00a0whether\u00a0his changes would delay the delivery of critical medications,\u00a0such as insulin, DeJoy\u00a0responded,\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not the COO, I\u2019m the CEO of the organization.\u201d<\/li>\n
    • On Requests from Local Postal Managers to Reinstall Sorting Machines:<\/em><\/strong>? Under questioning from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0testified that he has no way of knowing how many local postal managers\u00a0have asked\u00a0to reconnect sorting machines, testifying, \u201cHow would I know that?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0When asked, \u201cYou\u2019re in charge, you don\u2019t know whether there are plant managers that have requested?\u201d?he responded,\u00a0\u201cNo I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • Board Chairman Simultaneously Serving on GOP Super PACs:?\u00a0<\/strong>Under questioning from Rep. Raja\u00a0Krishnamoorthi, Robert M. Duncan, the Chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors, admitted that he still\u00a0serves\u00a0on the boards of both the Republican Senate Leadership Fund and\u00a0American\u00a0Crossroads while\u00a0overseeing the Postal Service.? Duncan\u2019s official\u00a0Postal Service\u00a0biography\u00a0boasts about his role as RNC Chairman, where \u201che raised an unprecedented $428 million and grew the donor base to 1.8\u00a0million\u2014more\u00a0donors than at any time in RNC history.\u201d<\/li>\n
      • Overtime:?<\/strong>\u00a0Rep. Mike Quigley asked DeJoy:\u00a0 \u201cAre you certain that no one was cutting back on overtime?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0He replied:\u00a0 \u201cNo, I\u2019m not certain, that\u2019s part of the problem at the Postal Service, sir.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to get my hands around.\u201d \u00a0Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton asked DeJoy\u00a0about who wrote an internal Postal Service document from July stating, \u201cOvertime will be eliminated.\u201d\u00a0 DeJoy responded,\u00a0\u201cI have purposefully not tried to find out who that was.\u201d\u00a0 Congresswoman Norton was able to secure a commitment from DeJoy to relieve overtime restrictions in the weeks prior to the election.<\/li>\n
      • Substantial Nationwide Impact:<\/strong>\u00a0 Under questioning from Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett,\u00a0DeJoy\u00a0admitted that\u00a0he has been engaged in a\u00a0\u201ctransformative initiative\u201d with nationwide impacts\u00a0that have caused\u00a0widespread delays\u00a0across the country, yet he has refused to seek an advisory opinion\u00a0from the Postal\u00a0Regulatory Commission as required by statute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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        The following is from the Democrat Controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform Washington, D.C. (Aug. 24, 2020)\u2014At a hearing today before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy admitted that massive delays in mail, medications, and other critical supplies caused by his sweeping changes are far worse than he anticipated or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29189,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29188\/revisions\/29189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}