Postal Reform

As long as Louis DeJoy is Postmaster General of the United States, you can expect mail delivery to continue to be sluggish.  But a new bill passed by Congress and certain to be signed by President Biden should help alleviate matters somewhat.

The postal reform bill that was just passed will remove $57 billion in unpaid liabilities from the U.S. Postal Service and  and eliminate $50 billion in payments over the next ten years, replacing the pre-paid postal-retiree program passed in 2006 with Medicare, saving taxpayers $1.5 billion through 2032.  The bill also codifies new requirements meant to guarantee timely mail deliveries and allows the Postal Service to offer services other than mail in partnerships with state and local governments, which could pave the way for a return to postal backing for low-income Americans.

What did DeJoy think of this legislation?  He supported it; he actually lobbied congressional Republicans to vote for it.  But he's still doing an abominable job in running the agency, and hopefully it won't be long before there are enough postal-board governors he can't put in his pocket who will be ready to replace him with someone else.

One good thing has come of of all this turmoil in the Postal Service aside from this bill; Americans now at least know who the Postmaster General is.