Louis Dejoys five year tenure and implementation of his "Delivering for America" plan has been an absolute disaster, especially for rural Americans. Incredibly, both sides of the aisle are in agreement. Dejoy got absolutely grilled by Congress and then covered his ears like a child. Look it up.
In trying to run it "like a business" he destroyed the service level provided. A sevice level that is mandated by laws. In Wyoming, had his his plan been implemented, there were places where sending a letter a short distance would have involved a letter going to Billings, then Salt Lake, then Denver, then getting to its destination. And that if everything worked "right" and things weren't delayed in any of those notorious bottlenecks in the big cities.
Furthermore, by trying to or in some cases being successful at eliminating outgoing mail processing at so many of the smaller P&DCs like Cheyenne and Casper, or for that matter Hays KS, North Platte NE, Grand Junction, CO Springs etc they created incredible bottlenecks at the new flashy RPDC's. These places already had significant issues. Look at places like Atlanta GA, Kansas City, Indianapolis. These are the places where Dejoys plan was actually implemented or just partly implemented and it has been a cluster of massive proportions. Indianapolis is another. It's all over the news in those places. Mail piled up and no one to work it because they can't hire enough people. Low starting wages, shit working conditions for your first several years (lots of people don't want to work 60 hours a week with 8hrs off between shifts not on their own volition) coupled with high cost of living in places like Denver etc. and here we are.
I tell you this with many years experience in the service. If the DOGE email had gone out to USPS, mine would have been unanswered as I have spent 5 of the last 6 days in the hospital with my wife and newborn child. But, had I been able to respond, it would have said something like.
1. Performed preventative and operational maintenance of two letter sorting machines that process an average of 300+ thousand pieces per day. One of which (my primary responsibility) has consistently been top 10 in the nation in lowest "at risk mailpieces" out of 188 sites that process outgoing letters .
2. Performed daily maintenance on BDS system that keeps anthrax out of all Americans mail.
3. Crossed craft in violation of contract to operate machines that I am not supposed to operate because of lack of staffing in operations.
4. Enough said.
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