{"id":32068,"date":"2022-04-14T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=32068"},"modified":"2022-04-14T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T13:48:11","slug":"trumps-favorite-postmaster-is-surviving-biden-and-maybe-even-saving-the-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2022\/04\/14\/trumps-favorite-postmaster-is-surviving-biden-and-maybe-even-saving-the-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Favorite Postmaster Is Surviving Biden – and Maybe Even Saving the USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

4\/14\/22 – USPS News Link<\/a>: Bloomberg notes USPS successes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy\u2019s efforts to modernize the Postal Service are the subject of a\u00a0lengthy article<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in Bloomberg Businessweek.<\/p>\n

The feature details the challenges facing USPS when DeJoy became the 75th postmaster general, in 2020, including the effects of COVID-19 on the organization\u2019s 644,000-member workforce and the issues associated with the increase in mail-in voting during that year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

As the March 31 article points out, though, DeJoy is helping the Postal Service get back on track through Delivering for America, the organization\u2019s 10-year plan to improve its finances and service.<\/p>\n

For example, the postmaster general tells Bloomberg Businessweek that USPS had relied too heavily on unreliable air transportation to fly mail across the country.<\/p>\n

His solution: Shift some First-Class Mail back to trucks, which added a day or two of delivery time to some mail, but is allowing the Postal Service to provide more cost-efficient, predictable service.<\/p>\n

Delivering for America is also targeting employee turnover, including converting as many as 63,000 precareer workers to full career status so they\u2019ll stick around. Although this will be costly, DeJoy says, it will save money in the long run.<\/p>\n

The piece also discusses the recent passage of the Postal Service Reform Act, along with the organization\u2019s other efforts to move into the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take seriously the fact that we\u2019re an independent agency,\u201d DeJoy says. \u201cI have a lot of authority, and I use it, right? And I\u2019m getting us to be more bold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4\/14\/22 – USPS News Link: Bloomberg notes USPS successes                 Postmaster General Louis DeJoy\u2019s efforts to modernize the Postal Service are the subject of a\u00a0lengthy article\u00a0in Bloomberg Businessweek. The feature details the challenges facing USPS when DeJoy became the 75th postmaster general, in 2020, including the effects of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068","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=32068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32070,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32068\/revisions\/32070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}