Raja Krishnamoorthi is calling on President Biden to replace USPS Board of Governors Chairman Ron Bloom, above, over his refusal to remove embattled postal chief Louis DeJoy.ДЄ USPS rep refuted allegations that the policy change has been вЂњdisastrous,вЂќ arguing that вЂњUSPS service performance has shown recent improvement,вЂќ pointing to service performance surpassing вЂњ90 percent for the first four weeks of Postal ServiceвЂ™s fiscal first quarter.вЂќ

Despite Postmaster General DeJoyвЂ™s claims, this massive postal slowdown was not even financially justified.вЂќ Rep. вЂњIn Chairman BloomвЂ™s response to my October 20th letter, he noted that the service standard changes were essential to ensure вЂmore reliable service.вЂ™ Unfortunately, the only manner in which the Postal Service has become more вЂreliableвЂ™ is to deliver mail reliably late. This policy, which Chairman Bloom claimed, вЂhas my fingerprints, lengthened the standard delivery time for approximately 30 percent of first-class mail and packages,вЂќ he wrote. вЂњAs a member of the USPS Board of Governors, Chairman Bloom was responsible for the selectionВ of Postmaster General DeJoy as Postmaster General and enabled his misguided 10-year вЂDelivering for AmericaвЂ™ plan. The Illinois Democrat cited BloomвЂ™s defense of Dejoy in a letter responding to his request that a vote be held to remove the mail chief from his position. In a letter sent to Biden this week, Krishnamoorthi called for Bloom to be replaced on the Board of Governors at the end of his term, arguing he is enabling DeJoyвЂ™s вЂњdisastrous policies.вЂќ

Raja Krishnamoorthi is calling on President Biden to replace USPS Board of Governors Chairman Ron Bloom over his refusal to remove the embattled postal chief.ДeJoy - a Trump-era-appointee who is currently under federal investigation over allegations of campaign finance violations - has come under fire for operational changes that have slowed first-class mail delivery under his supervision, with multiple Democrats calling for his removal. This NJ post office is a вЂblack holeвЂ™ for lost packages nationwideДЄ congressman from Illinois is leading the charge on DemocratsвЂ™ push to oust Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Maryland man busted allegedly selling 600 fake vaccine cards for $75 eachДemocrat calls for ouster of Postmaster General over slowdown Not least because his reported plan to overhaul the Postal Service would involve eliminating first-class mail and implementing higher postage rates, which really doesn't seem like a way to get more people to want to send things through the mail.USPS mail carriers allegedly stole credit cards as part of huge identity theft ring The appointment of DeJoy, a former shipping executive, was deemed suspicious from the jump, more so after his changes to the Postal Service's delivery procedures caused a major backlog and a spike in delays that mired people's bills and medications in the quagmire.ДЄnd, if I'm being honest, I still find him extremely sus. He took the reins in the shadow of President Donald Trump's repeated attempts to kneecap the Postal Service ahead of the election. That it's even a question is surprising given how central he was to the chaos at the Postal Service last year.

And yet, somehow, DeJoy's fate hangs over it all. And the Senate needs to both confirm Biden's appointees and get any House-passed legislation onto his desk. The House needs to pass the legislation that House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., unveiled Wednesday, which would transfer retired postal workers into Medicare, get rid of the health benefit fund and require the Postal Service to set up annual performance targets for deliveries. President Joe Biden has four open seats to fill on the Postal Service Board of Governors, which would give his appointees and the current chairman a majority on the nine-seat body. Everyone already knows their roles in fixing this problem.

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