Hawley Presses USPS For Answers Behind New Postal Plan's Disservice To Rural America

[@richardellis3141]

Dejoy got $533,146 last year and he is talking about cutting cost... I can see where to start .

[@Pozi_Drive]

It is only $0.007 per capita.

[@QueenOfDump]

That’s actually not bad at all for a top EXEC.

[@neilkadakia0]

That’s pretty fair for the amount of hassle.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

@@QueenOfDump Which actually defines a problem.

[@5710fpilot]

A PE CEO is going to be much higher. So is cost. He's putting ideas out there, unlike the Senator. Lesigh.

[@SadieBabyBlue]

As a postal employee, I beg of you…. Get this man OUT of the postal service!! Please!

[@hfrt29]

I thought it was just me

[@susanstewart7663]

Its crap now! This cant help!

[@samissk8n663]

This is what happens when self serving morons are allowed to appoint other self serving morons to positions of power and high responsibility. They deny responsibility, but cling to power any way they can.

[@garrystreeter-noaafederal2049]

He was appointed by trump, looks like he will be around a lot longer thanks to the maga movement.

[@patchadams4me]

As a former postal employee, I concur.

[@chinookvalley]

Hawley says he's written DeJoy letters about the bad service. Odds are, DeJoy still hasn't received those letters due to slow service by the USPS.

[@Luke2128]

They're probably sitting in a storage unit somewhere in small town USA.

[@newmobile1455]

if you wrote a letter or needed a small package delivered I can do sameday delivery or less riding a bicycle if it's local

[@BradHawbaker]

Lol

[@BradHawbaker]

​@nbut we cant because it will cut our route. We get credit only if it goes 200 miles away and comes back in dps. Or we will all be working 6 days a week.ewmobile1455

[@dogpatch75]

Yet Hawley is a rabid supporter of the inept president who, during his first term, created a revolving door of incompetent appointees. DeJoy is but one of scores of unqualified individuals put in the highest positions in government. Buckle up! The second term will be much worse!

[@GetToTheFarm]

if you mail a letter within our small city, it travels to a big city 200 miles away, then comes back another 200 miles to get delivered....RIDICULOUS!

[@cjreed9443]

That's how it works here in the small town I live in in southeast Missouri. Talking about waste.... This is the most wasteful practice of the post office in our region

[@thirdnut1]

It's cheaper than paying people or buying machines to sort it.

[@elizabethwalter6310]

@@thirdnut1actually costs more. And mail is delayed in my area which is a bigger city - it takes 7 + days to mail a letter to a location that is maybe 10 miles away.

[@KimberlyWalrath]

Us too, and those jobs lost

[@KimberlyWalrath]

​@@thirdnut1kinda like shipping from China is cheaper, only bc costs are hidden

[@nadinestapler3881]

This man should never never have gotten this post.

[@MrRiley-Is-Not-Amused]

Too late now because he's not going anywhere unfortunately.

[@av3nger3]

Unfortunately, because of him, everybody else doesn't get their post ;)

[@siriocouchinggroup6284]

Rural America thank you, Sen. Hawley!!!!

[@junit483]

He loves when the unwashed uneducated and illiterate worship and praise him.

[@rightsmatter2370]

How about cutting pay of upper management of all public officials

[@arthurpendragon3000]

DOGE DOGE DOGE

[@playdohsrepublic3562]

Including Josh Hawley. Good actor isn't he?

[@greatplainsman3662]

I call bs. They have been so inefficient for YEARS....more money, less sevice. Every time.

[@audijo6562]

Yep. I live rural. Post office closed/no mail on Saturday.

[@bizygirl1]

@@audijo6562That’s Dejoy for ya! Doing the work of the Koch Bros and Republicans keep cheering voting to get shafted

[@chriskirk9708]

This is what happens when a non profit goes to be a for profit organization. This guy is a tard and can't think outside the city.

[@barbaratyrrell3185]

And it’s not going to get any better 😊

[@jusrobby5829]

Cause all the money is going to upper management while the workers starve for scraps with outdated and cheap equipment

[@SheliaMar]

USPS is a mess because of this man’s policies. Carriers can’t report to work until 9 am because the mail isn’t ready for them. This puts them on people’s porches or yards at 10:30 or 11:00 pm. He is destroying service people have always relied on.

[@nerdkillerr]

Dejoy is Destroying the post office. He needs to get cost down? Stop paying your managers over $100k just to sit all day doing nothing. 😂😂

[@Luckyduck10]

Refer them to DOGE!

[@justintimeforfishin773vidz]

Trump needs to hire this guy to fix the food delivery service companies in America for the drivers and the customers. There should be no reason that I can't deliver a neighborhood restaurant food to my neighbor and the driver and the customer suffer while the company makes billions.

[@reletaortiz2026]

My post office won't even answer the phone. Dejoy is a bs'er.

[@ritad.franklin6372]

Post Offices could also be paid based upon the number of transactions that take place in each County. The higher the transactions, the higher the salary for the Postal Workers who are delivering the mail. The 100,000 K for managers, could be dropped down to $80,000 due to less work in the County being delivered.

[@5710fpilot]

​@ritad.franklin6372 are you willing to take a 20% cut? Don't try and short the help. This isn't McDonald's.

[@Maris-W]

Way to go, Hawley! Every state needs a Senator like him who puts his people first.

[@TheDotDetective]

Do you know what a pal is? Private ass kicker. Are you one of those? Josh represents his lobby. Not you.

[@7791D]

Why I’m glad to be a Missouri midwesterner

[@keel3r433]

​@@TheDotDetective keep your insane thoughts to yourself

[@indivisibleman8596]

Trump put Dejoy in charge, Hawley is Trump's buddy

[@baclava69]

@@TheDotDetective show me a better senator who does golod for the people please

[@laveraparato258]

These are the same people who still pay bills through the mail verses online. This means people could have late bills/late checks. This is very bad. Thank you, Senator Hawley for fighting for ALL of us in rural areas.

[@jw70467]

It is one extra day.

[@bobbiefisher4623]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@ashydes_mom_of_7]

It's not 1 extra day. We now only get mail maybe once a week. We were seeing our mail people daily. The last 3 weeks we've had to go to post office to pick up our mail.

[@zuzuspetals9281]

@@jw70467No it’s not, it was one extra day ten years ago. Then two, now three or more. I’ve gotten bills after the due date. And online banking isn’t the answer because many of those transactions become “checks” that the bank mails for you. And disappear in some strange place where they are lost forever, and you get a late notice, have to pay to stop payment, and pay a late fee. We’d be better off bringing back the Pony Express.

[@williamjones6053]

Right I wish my state had Hawley or even a strong Republican like Tommy tuberville !!! those are real patriotic Americans standing up to liberal bull crap for rural Americans like myself !!!

[@tad3900]

Thank you senator Hawley. Keep fighting for America and our fellow Missourians.

[@dianewhitlock8756]

When I lived in S Kansas City Mo our mail was really sketchy!

[@cl3165]

I love Senator Hawley's integrity and respect his work. I really hope someone in our state steps up and fights for us as he is for state of Missouri.

[@akita96th]

That man has no intregrity he is Trumpian bungholeLicker. A J6 traitor.

[@gabrielespinoza5328]

BRING BACK MANAGEMENT WITH INTEGRITY !!!!!!!!

[@sylphofthewildwoods5518]

Precisely! Isn't old J. Brennan involved with the PS. That would explain a lot.....

[@reneestesnetwork]

Women need to be in charge men have has a long run at it and have driven our society off a cliff.

[@samissk8n663]

That doesn’t exist anywhere, and never has.

[@gabrielespinoza5328]

@ just cause you have an experienced it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Iv seen iv worked with awesome management before

[@RichelleWatson615]

It's over

[@chuggingee]

Josh Hawley you are a genuine great person who actually care we love you for that

[@playdohsrepublic3562]

Yeah. He really gets things done doesn't he? Oscar winning actor, that's all.

[@tammyterrell1641]

Flat rate shipping small package rate is ridiculously expensive! Dejoy is lying! He’s an incompetent RINO! Fire him immediately!

[@ej12349]

Trump appointed him. The Postal Board should have fired him! He destroyed thousands of mail machines that made the process faster and more efficient. He did this just before the 2020 Election.

[@Black_Jesus3005]

About 12 bucks

[@daveburrows9876]

You're mistaken. He's not a RINO at all. This is what it looks like when a Republican controls a service like the USPS.

[@rayrussell6258]

Wrong! DeJoy was appointed by Trump, he was MAGA

[@tennesseegregario7253]

@@daveburrows9876 No sir, YOU are mistaken. If Republicans ever truly get control over the postal service, we will close it down.

[@marcydobbs1653]

Rural America has found a voice. Thank you, Senator Hawley. We should not be treated like second class citizens because of our address.

[@Eudi2020]

I love listening to Josh Hawley. He ALWAYS questions how an issue will affect his state (Missouri) and the people living there.

[@siriocouchinggroup6284]

That's how you have to talk to these phony CEOs.

[@arthurpendragon3000]

Congress is soooo polite. The honorable this, the esteemed that, blah, blah, blah while they LIE to your face. I want actual jail time for witness perjury. I want fines for Congress intentionally lying.

[@barbarapettinger5687]

Josh....A package mailed in Tulsa goes past Joplin to Kansas City, to St Louis, to Springfield, then back to Joplin before I get it just outside Joplin. The WASTE IS TAKING IT ALL OVER THE SYSTEM INSTEAD OF DELIVERING IT WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE CITY I'M FROM!!? This is Bull

[@RetroQueenGamer]

Yeah, ive seen those when i used to ebay. Like why does the package have to go all over the country to show up in the dame or neighboring states. Theres something weird with all that.

[@galamillar]

I live in a rural area. Our local PO is only open half the day. We used to have two mail slots inside the building, one of which was marked "Local" meaning it stayed in our little bitty town [population 500]. The "Local" slot has disappeared. If we don't want our mail to leave town, we have to make sure to go into the PO when a clerk is there. Otherwise, the mail goes 90 miles down the road before it turns around to come back here. This UNJOY person is stupid.

[@julieweber6670]

Same here in southern Illinois, i’m waiting on an item coming from Ohio, it’s traveling around -went to Kansas City came back to Saint Louis, and then to Belleville, Illinois. Ridiculous.

[@HopeSpringsFarms]

It is the same in Ohio. I live in Northwest Ohio and all our mail has to go through 1 or 2 hubs in Detroit Metro area. It is not efficient and the Detroit hub has lost more packages of mine than it delivers.

[@asmith8529]

Same in Texas. Our mail goes 1 1/2 hours out of state, to be delivered 15 miles the opposite direction. It takes 3+ days to mail 15 miles. We often receive medical bills a mere week before it's due date, because it takes so long to reach us. One more day does have major impacts on rural America.

[@kathyolney4083]

Yes!!! We are tired of this!! GO Hawley!!💫

[@SaraMercer-v6i]

You go, man! We all need help with this. As an elected official, you are our voice. Wish more in Washington felt the weight on their shoulders. Thanks

[@treezafernweh4156]

Took a letter one and a half months to make it from Florida to Ohio in June 2024 for me. A neighbor sent out wedding invites this summer and some people in our small rural southern Ohio town didn’t get them in time! This has been going on for 4 years. Get rid of him!!! 🤬

[@francoh4701]

josh hawley is the best. he fights for things that matter to us. thank you, senator hawley!

[@mikehunt9392]

Why does my local mail have to be sent 110 miles away to a hub and then back which takes three days that seems highly inefficient

[@butterflygirl2285]

IMO - Yes, it is absolutely ridiculous.

[@jusrobby5829]

Because he is sabotaging the post office thats what he wants and thats bad for workers AND customers

[@D.Standridge]

I'm only a rural carrier in MO, so remember this when I provide my limited knowledge of the postal system: Since so much of processing mail is done by machines (very large machines--I was given a tour of the processing center in Springfield, last year, when I was hired), there's no mechanical system in each post office that could process local mail (did I mention the machines are large?), and there aren't enough bodies in any given post office to sort the likely hundreds of local letters that come in each day (depending upon the size of your community, of course). We're dependent upon automation to maintain even the poor speed alluded to in this video. We no longer live in the era where people sat at stations, hand-stamping and sorting mail to go to different locations. I'm not saying DeJoy is properly managing the resources as it is; our mail delivery truck is showing up 1-3 hours late at least once per week, which has most of us mail carriers out in the dark during the daylight savings months, in the cold. If the mail trucks were more consistently timely in their arrival each morning, I'd be all for having us clerks and carriers punching in at 6:30, instead of 7:30, to get us out earlier and back to the office before it gets dark. A few times, this past few months, the truck wouldn't show at a reasonable time, so all we had to deliver was Amazon pkgs. The system's crumbling, and I can't fathom all the cogs in the wheel that provide some semblance of normalcy, where a normal day should have your mail in your mailbox by 5 PM, so I'm not going to pretend to know the answers. Also, letters are getting less frequent to deliver. Maybe the increasing price of stamps is causing it. Perhaps relatively free communication via internet is causing it. Mayhap, younger generations don't cherish the services of the USPS like their forebears did. Less volume of postal mail means less revenue for the USPS. Carriers are delivering fewer and fewer things to mailboxes, but more and more packages are being deposited on porches, near garages, etc. I've read that the USPS is scrambling to generate revenue through new and different avenues, and that will likely mean an entirely different paradigm shift for my (new) profession. The USPS is cutting what rural carriers earn per mile driven on each route to offset the loss of millions of dollars to the operating budget. Quite frankly, I struggle imagining a future USPS as efficient and respected as we enjoyed it 20+ years ago. I now doubt my choice to continue this job, though I've been employed at at least two other shipping-sinking companies in my adult life . . . what's one more? I might start suffering a mental complex, thinking that it's my fault all these companies who've hired me went bankrupt or were bought out by a bigger fish. This response is only partially defending the system that sends your local mail in a 110-circuitous-mile journey. It's in no way defending DeJoy. I am in no position to offer alternatives.

[@mikehunt9392]

@ not at all thank you so much for your response and your service that I know the most small town in mail carriers provide and have gone above and beyond what’s required of them just to provide decent service to us rural communities. I remember when we went from curbside mail delivery to just PO Box. It was a big change, but it definitely helped save a lot of jobs there’s no one solution thanks again and happy holidays

[@Baker_king12]

Basically because that is the cheapest way to do it. It is cost efficient vs time efficient. Yes would it be better for your local mail person to see that your letter is local and not ship it to the hub for sorting… possibly but that would require manual sorting time which would clog up the system and require more man hours be worked at your local office. It is cheaper to use automation to do the actual sort but the machines that die that automation are at the hub. Why are they at the hub well because they are huge. They require specialized labor (people that know how to fix and service them) and the bigger more complicated machines are more cost effective where a smaller sorter at your local office may cost say $10k the bigger hub machine cost$250k but the big machine handles mail for 100 or 1000 offices so it only cost $2500 or $250 per office equivalent. Now these are hypothetical members the real numbers are probably much higher. But regardless centralization of the post office is arguably the most efficient way in terms of cost. The post office used to take 14-21 days to get a first class letter from one under the country to the other (the reason for the variance is that if it goes from NY to LA it’s 14 days because efficencies in the fact that that is a more common route where if it goes from say keywest florida to Moscow Idaho it will take longer because that isn’t a common route)it now takes five or less to get first class mail along almost any route. The thing is we’ve become accustomed to the speed, but it’s a speed that is dependent upon the use of the mail system. The more the mail system is used the more efficient. The hub and spoke scheme becomes the problem is we are sending less and less mail. With that reduction in mail traffic you run into issues with the efficiency of the logistics model and that’s why the Postal Service is having trouble less dependence upon services. It’s kind of a knock on effect because mail service was efficient, but now that people aren’t using it and using things like electronic statements and so on the mail service has to cut back, which leads to people cutting back on using it, which leads to getting cut back again. Basically the service is dated and while there are still people that use it, it is becoming a more and more difficult business model to justify and people expect it to stay cheap but the reason it was cheap was due to economies of scale. It no longer has those economies of scale so they either have to increase rates or cut service levels and the public has been pretty upset with them increasing rates so they’re only other option is to cut service levels.

[@TheUnknownSwan]

Thank you for standing up for Rural America. I live in a rural area as well in the mountains of CA. Josh Hawley is on point, articulate, intelligent, and stands up for American people, what is right, logical, practical and realistic. Well done, Senator Hawley. Wish you were here in CA. I'd totally vote for him as President. He makes sense and is an appropriate candidate.

[@playdohsrepublic3562]

What has Josh Hawley gotten done with all that yelling and screaming? Not much because it's called acting. BUT....as long as you THINK he's on your side...welllllllll, that's all that matters.

[@dogpatch75]

Wait till Hawley and the republicans succeed in privatizing USPS. Mail service to many rural areas will cease to exist!

[@SheLoveSports]

Well dang, Senator Hawley, stand on business. I enjoyed this clip. I have only seen brief clips of him in the media so it was nice to see him fighting for his constituents.

[@theknightwithin6187]

UPS has also started this as well. I overnighted a package costing an extra $35, Ordered first thing Thursday morning, was supposed to get it that Friday. Come early Friday morning, it was at my nearest warehouse, never got put on a truck for delivery and wasn’t going to be delivered till the following Monday. Was a pretty important package, so I actually went to the warehouse itself and explained my situation, met some very nice individuals and they got my package for me. The young lady, then explained to me that UPS started cutting delivery days to rural communities “Silently” throughout the week, which would’ve resulted in me pretty much getting screwed out of $35. So to anyone seeing this message and you live in a rural area, yall be careful paying extra to get your packages quicker if it’s through UPS. You may not get it when you expect it 👀👀👀

[@MississippiGranny]

Good for you Mr Hawley enough is enough with these people!

[@doakie3348]

SENATOR HAWLEY IS THE MAN!! TRULY SPEAKING FOR THE PEOPLE. WE NEED SO MANY MORE LEADERS LIKE HIM. THANK YOU

[@A_Legal_Immigrant_1776]

Best senator 🇺🇸

[@siriocouchinggroup6284]

By far!!!!

[@Pantera-wu9ty]

Senator Kennedy is right there with him

[@emmyt9304]

I have a package still sitting in a distribution center in Hazelwood MO. My local post office can see it there and flagged it. Been there since July.

[@tankersleystribe4588]

Thank you for supporting rural American!

[@dogpatch75]

Wait till Hawley and the republicans succeed in privatizing USPS. Mail service to many rural areas will cease to exist!

[@conniewalker6125]

Missouri LOVES our Josh Hawley

[@docholliday5439]

You guys are very lucky to have him as your senator! 🤠🌵🌵🌵🇺🇲

[@conniewalker6125]

@@docholliday5439 Thank you I think so👍

[@niklay33]

Lucky ppl✌🏾

[@NathRebornsK]

❤❤❤

[@7791D]

Missouri people in the house!

[@lawinsimpleterms]

I literally cannot stop watching, Senator Hawley. There has to be a future for this man. (President?)😀

[@siriocouchinggroup6284]

Same here!!! I hope he runs for presidency of the USA eventually.

[@kathyolney4083]

Yes...he's a strong leader...we will always need this. After the 2020 placement...🧐

[@jaywood7672]

I definately see a future president in Hawley

[@RetroQueenGamer]

I like him.

[@SteveB-nx2uo]

DOGE officer

[@lubrown188]

Let's go back to the "Pony Express" because it seems to work better. USPS is a MESS! 😩😡

[@queenbee3647]

Im in a rural area. The mail doesnt go in or out of our local bldg. It goes 8 miles away to a college town nearby. Even mail that is meant to stay in our town! So it adds days to delivery that could have been done in hours. Also they are confiscating mailboxes and bldg mail kiosks. Im disabled and rather than my mail coming to my yard it goes to the opposite end of our housing development. My heart is destroyed, Im on oxygen and cant get to that kiosk. Calls to the post office get you no where. Supposedly Im protected by Disabilities Act. I despise the post office. I didnt order Christmas gifts this year because of late and lost packages. I had over $400 of Christmas gifts stolen from me. Delivered to who knows where. Again contact at the post office gets you ignored or cussed at. The post office needs to be redesigned.

[@jacobgrissom1391]

Cut USPS they can apply to FedEx or UPS or bitch about how we needed them and they didn't want to work

[@janedoe9421]

USPS is greedy!!! 😠

[@AmericanEveryday]

What about why cant the postal service stamp & process local mail right in the small postoffice instead of sending it an hr away just to bring it back to the same town it needs to be delivered to!?! That's inefficient!!!

[@SandcastleDreams]

​@@AmericanEverydayCause morons run the USPS!

[@jimmartin5362]

Heres a soulition charge more for junk mail that nobody wants.

[@StephanieHarring]

Lolz ❤ it! Plus charge Amazon, USP, FedEx by the mile, invoke any and all applicable laws.

[@MrNobody2828]

Keep your junkmail! The landfills here are about filled up.

[@thehappyhermit01]

I live in a small Midwestern town and was told the mailmen don't pick up mail that you place in your mailbox unless they have mail to deliver to you that day. That's crazy. That's like getting paid for only doing half your job.

[@josep4549]

If you have a flag on your mailbox, you should think of using it. Blame blame blame, shame shame shame.

[@thehappyhermit01]

@@josep4549 I do, Francis.

[@danettepaquette6047]

There are a few carriers that do this but it is not the policy of the post office it is just lazy carriers. And as someone who lives in the area that they are currently do this one truck per day it is bad.

[@thehappyhermit01]

@@danettepaquette6047 No, I went to the post office and spoke with the folks in charge and that's what I was told.

[@WritingArcadia]

Thank you for caring about the people of the country. Please run for President in 2028.

[@siriocouchinggroup6284]

He will have my vote without any doubt!!!!

[@charcierand88]

mine too❤

[@mariaalexander427]

Reminder: Hawley refused to vote in favor of Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader.

[@siriocouchinggroup6284]

@@mariaalexander427 I wasn't aware of this. Do you know how to check this voting? Thank you!

[@BonnieBlue2A]

@@mariaalexander427 Yes,that was disappointing.

[@marcfilms999]

I'm a farmer, so many of the BS changes in the past 4 years has caused a lot of government buildings to close down in smaller towns throughout the country side. This causes us to leave our farms to go stand in super long lines within major cities. That makes more active around the clock farmers, lose time and money prepping their farm for planting, harvest or even taking care of lifestock. Why does the current government not care they're making things harder and more expensive for us but constantly increase funding and reduced costs to people who live in major cities?

[@Crowbars357]

They want us all to starve to death. That’s why.

[@bizygirl1]

Because ya’ll keep voting for these clowns

[@jusrobby5829]

Its on purpose and the carriers dont like it either .. it is costing us jobs .. he wants dedicated delivery points which bad for workers AND customers

[@ej12349]

Trump caused 100,000 farmers to go bankrupt during his first Presidency. He then had to bail most of them out while others went under. He will do the exact same thing this time around.

[@ej12349]

​@@jusrobby5829Trump appointed DeJoy to head up the Postal Service. DeJoy destroyed thousands of Postal machines that made processing the mail more efficient and quick. He did this just before the 2020 election. Trump appoints the best people!

[@trudyfarabee2683]

Thank you Senator Hawley. Our postal service is terrible. No more money for them.

[@jusrobby5829]

@@trudyfarabee2683 the usps is not funded by tax dollars .. idk y ppl always think that

[@clemclemson9259]

@@jusrobby5829 we fund the Govt - who then funds the USPS

[@Barritoloco]

@clemclemson9259 usps runs entirely off revenue. It's a quasi government corporation. Government controls it, but does not fund it. Management has been notoriously horrible throughout the decades. It's full of backstabbers and crooks. The carriers are the poor souls that get used and abused then tossed to the curb.

[@Maiant]

Postal Service is a Constitutionally mandated service. You can stop funding the USPS. But you have to replace it with something.

[@danielsweeney6639]

@@clemclemson9259the Postal Service is funded through the sales of postage and services. At this point the government does help make up the shortfall of funds but it is mostly self funded.

[@donnastormer9652]

So elderly people who pay their bills on the first of the month may possibly be delinquent every single month

[@SmokyMountainBlessed]

good for the Senator for standing up for rural America, that's my family rural America

[@sherriroe4806]

Senator Hawley, you are a true patriot and blessing to this state

[@remix381]

Sounds like a job for D.O.G.E

[@bushveldkid7640]

Get rid of the bloated pensions and benefits! Government workers should not be living better and retiring earlier than the tax paying citizens. No more money to an inefficient organization.

[@ej12349]

Why? Trump created this mess by appointing DeJoy in his first term. DeJoy cut the workers hours, destroyed mailing equipment that processed the mail more efficiently. But hey, hurt the wrong people because you believe in false information. The Postal Board should have removed him years ago.

[@elreytriton]

@@bushveldkid7640 stop spreading bullshit just because you're mad and dumb. Fed pensions are self funded and they cant retire until 58. 4 years before they can tap into social security. Republicans have been defunding the post office for decades and want to privatize it. You're a fool if you think they're doing anything for the benefit of rural areas which are dying.

[@The_Osprey]

DOGE won't be able to fix empty trucks. The outgoing is miniscule but they have full on box trucks driving out there to pick up mail that would fit in a shoebox.

[@darkkingastos4369]

@@The_Osprey Bring back postal motorbikes that save money

[@billywydola3388]

I have a lot of friends in Missouri Senator, I'm very glad they have you to represent them in the Senate.

[@wk7060]

The main downgrades I have seen in previous years is their delivery service, it sucks.

[@tonibauer8449]

Fired enough said

[@brandondaniels9471]

9:53 - _"And listen... I've been nice to you up until now. But, frankly, I'm a little tired of this!"_ Now there's a real politician. Every time Sen. Hawley speaks, I sit up straight with good posture and start cleaning my room.

[@happycamper1372]

😂

[@akivalu]

Dont blame the Postal Workers. Our starting pay is $19.33 while the supervisors on up are making $100K sitting around gossiping about each other. My vehicle dies out on me at least 10 times a day. That thing shoots exhaust fumes into the cabin all day. I have to drive with my head out the window. The money is not going to the workers!

[@markchriestenson3257]

The exhaust on your llv should be on the other side of the vehicle, just like busses. The farthest corner from the door.

[@jonnip7225]

I believe every word, i have seen those things, they are outdated. Hope you get a good delivery van soon!!👍

[@Grey-t1p]

I still want one of those old mail trucks so I can turn it into a tool truck

[@monicaLopez-gl8hv]

If you feel baaad(😉😉)go to the Dr and start getting it documented. Cause you mentioned that you're starting to get bad headaches and chronically coughing....riiight(😉) Then get an atty(😉😉)

[@williamfindspeople4341]

A lot of veterans depend on medicine through the mail. It could be life or death outcome.

[@kimberli2391]

I like him! May he stay in office to fight for his people. Wish he was from California.

[@katiesioux7757]

In middle Tennessee, we could mail a package and it would go through Nashville and sometimes be returned or go back through more than once or Nashville would send our packages back to where they came from more than once. Watching tracking was unnerving. Nashville hub needs to be investigated

[@Alaskabuilt_]

Doge needs to clean house at usps. In Alaska 75% of packages and mail are not delivered. They claim they can’t deliver unless you have a large enough driveway for a full size vehicle to turn around in. Which I do and they still don’t deliver.

[@KILLKING110]

So you literally want no one to get the mail got it don't complain when you get thecpower cut off

[@rauxhyde2614]

Trying to dismantle mail-in-voting !

[@mikehenry4743]

Well at least they will deliver. I live in rural Arizona and they don't deliver mail. You have to drive to the post office and pick it up, for some people that's up to a 50 mile round trip.

[@dougmilesmedia]

Great job Sen. Hawley! The post office hasn't been run properly since Ben Franklin!

[@countbobula8071]

Senator Hawley for president

[@1320pass]

Thank you Senator Hawley

[@AMFER7875]

He's a Traitor

[@cynthj796]

@@AMFER7875 Here in Missouri folks don’t take kindly to trash talk against, Senator Hawley. The rest of the nation could only be so fortunate as to have such a grounded, salt-of-the-earth, fearless protector and dedicated genius serving their state. No Senator has ever worked harder for our people and all the people of this nation. If ever in Missouri it would be wise for outsiders to not spew any filthy lies about him in public. That would be a good way to end up eaten by wild hogs… or worse.

[@EatBeefBeHealthy]

I love Senator Hawley for standing up for his State. I hope Louisiana joins him.

[@lauracobb564]

I am from Missouri and he speaks for me! Thankful and proud of this Godly man ..who uses his knowledge and wisdom to benefit you and me..He cannot change things by himself..but he will bring it to our attention..then is up to us to act! We must contact our leaders in Washington and LET THEM KNOW we want and expect change..without Sen Hawley we are left in the dark!! Please join me in praying for him, his family, staff and America!!!

[@gabrielespinoza5328]

LACK OF MANAGEMENT IS WHATS KILLING USPS..

[@CantrellMosley1]

Postal Management DOES NOT DO MUCH. They have meeting on phone calls and sit in their offices on their phones.

[@RichardJayJr-vz8ev]

Lack of GOOD management.

[@catherineportland503]

Pocketing the money. Follow the money you will get your answers

[@Barritoloco]

They are micromanaged. There's too much management control

[@ej12349]

​@@CantrellMosley1How do you know what they do?

[@kathyraines3447]

Get this… I live in Cape Girardeau. My package tracking showed my package moving from Columbia Mo to St Louis. It went back to Columbia. Then it moved to Cape Girardeau and then moved back to Columbia. After at least 5 days I finally received my package!

[@SandcastleDreams]

Happens here in FL, too! One of my packages bounced back to Jacksonville 3 times. It came to Orlando several times before it quit bouncing.

[@kathyraines3447]

@ and my husband’s package ended up in Puerto Rico. So unreal. Can’t depend on the USPS. Needs to go independent maybe.

[@karinwest919]

Exactly! Same here ... we are along I 44 and our mail goes from St. Louis to Kansas City and then back to Springfield and finally back east along the I 44 corridor .... Head shaker!!

[@karinwest919]

@@kathyraines3447 , better not. Rural people would get messed over, I have seen it in other countries. It would be really hard on seniors who are no longer able to drive.

[@samissk8n663]

You can thanks the deal with Amazon for that.

[@backroads82]

Hawley is on the right track. Now if he will insist on tracking every dollar that goes to the postal service. Break it down and see how much is needed to operate the heart of the postal service and see if those dollars are actually going there. If they are not going there first then see why not. What has been promised for the dollars already given and have those promises been fulfilled. If not then why not. Seems like accountability has gone out the window now days and people want to talk in circles with a smoke and mirror approach to their actions. Accountaility and good management will go a long way to solve a problem.

[@StephanieHarring]

@backroads82 Each individual congressman, congresswoman, and the abcdefghijklmnopqrst' s need to be audited by the tax auditers, the Sec. While they're at it, do the same with all sitting senater's.

[@amandaann3272]

Go after DeJoy harder! He’s stealing from us hard working carriers and our union is helping him!!! PLEASE HELP US USPS EMPLOYEES! His shuttering tells you he’s a liar!!! CUT HIS PAY AND OVERPAID MANAGEMENT! As I watch I hate this man!

[@AngelaBirditt-rw1yf]

I say LIAR. Decoy is an idiot.

[@MrNobody2828]

I had enough of the bs from top heavy management at the PO and quit there. The sub took it for awhile and the quit also. Been 5 or 6 people now tried the route. I got everybody's mail but my own. Once in a while I got my own mail by chance. That place is a joke!

[@nanci8175]

Josh Hawley!! ❤ I like when he calls BS when he sees it .

[@dennisspears7177]

I’m from the UK and I really wish I could live in Missouri where Senator Hawley was my representative. What a truly inspiring politician with honesty and integrity. An outstanding ambassador for the right and good.

[@7791D]

Hey I’m born and raised in MO the Midwest really is underrated in America. It’s all about the east and west coast in this country. Midwest America has some the of the best hard working people in the country. I moved to Florida and moved back cuz I love the Midwest. I can’t live in the crazy east/west coast. Come on over sometime I think you’d like it. Lots of cool cities to explore in middle of America with awesome culture and history. Detroit. Chicago. St Louis(where I’m from) Kansas City. And many others.

[@beckygraham5041]

We don't get our bills and mail now WTH!!!

[@AngelaBirditt-rw1yf]

No workers because the job is so hard. Why don't you apply? Then you will understand why your mail delivery is screwed up. One of the problems is too many packages.

[@brandibridges1483]

Great composur, and thank you, Our Senator Hawley.

[@marky2A]

As a Postal retiree I can tell you that the Postal Service was never meant to be a money making institution. It is a government service that serves every address every day. The workers are very hard workers. The fat that needs to be cut out is the big salaries in the mountains of administrators that smother the Postal Service. That is the waste that kills the entire institution. Get rid of the fat cats, let the workers do their jobs for a fair wage. Then lets see what we really have. A true Service for fair prices.

[@arthurp68]

Josh is a very well spoken fella!!

[@francoputin5785]

I can’t believe the nerve of this man asking for grant money. Here’s a critical question: what exactly does your business produce that is a valuable service? And Taxpayers are going to pay your Christmas bonus too?? I think not. Thank You Senator Hawley for exposing corruption and bringing these shady people into the light for the Public to See. What is done in the Night will surely come to Day. ❤️🇺🇸

[@ej12349]

I thought that you were all proud of Trump's appointees? The Postal Board should have fired this guy a long time ago. DeJoy destroyed thousands of expensive mail machines that processed the mail more efficiently and quickly. He did this just before the 2020 election.

[@chillbill2480]

You understand that pmg is Trump’s buddy appointment by Trump😮

[@LexGoyle]

Well the postal service is required to exist via the Constitution. I'm fine funding it with taxpayer money but yes, costs need to come down including salaries of higher ups.

[@victoroneill7924]

I live in town but have a mail box in my front yard with a my address on it. I also have my address in big brass numbers on the front of my house. It's amazing how often the post office puts my mail to the wrong mail box (sometimes even on the wrong street). The USPS tracking system is also a real mystery.

[@samissk8n663]

It’s because the sorting machines are trash, and most carriers are too lazy to case their presorted mail, or at the very least finger through every letter like they are supposed to.

[@mysticmeadowshomestead6209]

It's like we regular folks need to take care of delivering the mail ourselves. 🤔 Dejoy got paid $533,146 last year, and he received Ten Billion Dollars to deliver the mail. In a RFD of a thousand, that'd be about $31 we could shave off our tax money each year, or $31,000. I think a town population of a thousand could pay one guy to delivery to mail. Problem solved. Just stop paying taxes.

[@AngelaBirditt-rw1yf]

Why do you track your mail? It will get to your home or post office box the day it is received at your post office. Your carrier cannot get it to you until it gets there. Why are you so impatient? I have never nor will I ever track mail. It will get to me when my carrier gets it. Simple.

[@mysticmeadowshomestead6209]

@@AngelaBirditt-rw1yf Is this some sort of joke reply? Are you taking a piss?

[@Apparition2077]

⁠@@samissk8n663you’re wrong, it has nothing to do with laziness. We literally aren’t allowed to case our dps unless we are loading our trucks. Some carriers don’t go the extra mile to scan through mail on the street but while we are in the office, we aren’t allowed to touch our dps.

[@reneldageisinger5597]

Our mail already goes over 200 miles away just to go through the mail to someone who is 5 miles away

[@randolphscudder2372]

Rural areas were the last to get roads, electricity, telephone services, health services, and government representation, but they do receive service cuts under budget plans first.

[@NotThatBob]

I wish my wife's medication didn't go missing and that I didn't have to deliver mail to my neighbors from my mail box. When I was younger, giving the mail carrier a Christmas card with a tip was a joy. Now I seriously think the post office should be giving me a card and tip.

[@playdohsrepublic3562]

My mail lady likes to wad up my packages and stuff them tightly into my box. She doesn't care if she damages something or not.

[@newmobile1455]

people don't care about the job or their reputation all people want is a check weather they do the job or not

[@roseseifert8939]

When ordering i request they not use USPS when shipping to me. If the postman can't fit it in your mailbox he takes it back to the main and they send a notice for you to come get it. Which I make them redeliver. He won't bring it up the drive. Where as Ups, fed ex etc bring it to the door or put it in the garage. Why do they even offer themselves as a deliver service of pkgs if they have no intention of doing it. Rural living.

[@NotThatBob]

@@roseseifert8939 Yes, I to make it clear that USPS is NOT to be used for delivery.

[@katiesioux7757]

I had so much mail not come to me in middle Tennessee and was getting mail from numerous other addresses that I started writing notes on the letters " we don't even live on the same road but I got your mail and if you got mine please return it so I can get it" things like that and the post office would scold me🙄

[@BonnieBlue2A]

Thank you Sen. Hawley. Rural postal services are horrible. There aren’t even self-serve mail machines inside of the 3 closest rural post offices to my home. Limited post office hours make it difficult.

[@kathyolney4083]

As Louis stutters about this "change".

[@cmnetts]

He's a terrible commicator and stammered his way through his statement.

[@jas57264]

USPS regularly loses mail sent/received by me for years. I have been forced to find other shipping sources and payment options to avoid late payment/etc.

[@janig294]

The new DOGE should privatize USPS, ar one time it was prmary employer for Vietnam Vets, now..those have retired, now, it is a union of federal employees, bebefits, retirement that doesnt need to be Federal entity. Dont let Amazon or UPS get contract, do RFPs, hire 5 contractors-NE, SE, NW, SW, Midwest.

[@SuperDean1957]

Rural Americans deserve the same service as urban Americans. This is shameful mismanagement. What is his salary?

[@zuzuspetals8323]

The service is bad across the board. 😢

[@SuperDean1957]

@zuzuspetals8323 Yes, it is.

[@Steven-wv3qm]

Louis Dejoy worked as a Pmg & Ceo for the United States Postal Service (USPS) and in 2024 had a reported pay of $341,020 according to public records.

[@mattcrad8605]

Anything more than 80k a year for that position is too much.

[@MMCUSN]

@@Steven-wv3qm Nearly as much as the President $400,000.00 (plus $50,000 expense account). A Senator gets $174,000. Heck the VP only gets $284,600. A Post Master only gets $90,000 salary. There is no way the Post Master General should be getting that much.

[@zuzuspetals8323]

The USPS has been the pits since it was “automated.” Tragic and sad …

[@beckygraham5041]

Who's pocketing the cost of 2 books of stamps 29.00 WTH

[@MariaLivings]

I want Mr. Hawley in Congress! 😊

[@livefreeordie9542]

Sent my truck payment into my credit union in the town next to mine and USPS took 3 days to deliver it. It used to be next day. We're paying much more for much worse service. Elon and Vivek need to take a long hard look at USPS.

[@swagger7]

I guess rural Americans are "coach" ... because that's damn sure not "First Class".

[@JoeDeBold]

I have mailed letters from Kansas City, MO to Macomb, IL. Repeated taken 16 days!!!!! I can drive there in 4 hours!!!!

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

I'm in Orlando.gov . NOT a rural area. 🤔 I've had delivery issues with 2 2024 USPS priority packages. $10 fee. They both got to "hubs" in 3 days then BOOM no updates, no changes! Why is the USPS so slow, misguided. 1990s 2000s was 10x faster!

[@ArleneTrombley]

Nearly 2 weeks for a greeting card to go from west St. Louis county to north St. Louis county. 45 minute drive.

[@samissk8n663]

@@DavidLLambertmobileAmazon.

[@aregularguy1957-vu5lk]

Thank you Senator for your hard work and representation. The P.O. should look into their own waste. 10,000 empty vehicles running around wasting fuel? How many employees sit around and do nothing? This is only the tip of the iceberg.

[@ej12349]

Where do you get your information? Non of that is true.

[@katiesioux7757]

It will also be every Native American Reservation neglected too

[@GitNthTRUCK]

Also why are postal employees having to deliver massive boxes that take up their whole tiny vehicle, while there are UPS drivers with giant trucks who are dropping off one little packet on my porch? Wtf is efficient about that? Why does the postal service have do deliver ANYTHING that doesn't fit in a mail box??? Especially when the other companies are?

[@StephanieHarring]

Good question!

[@pcatorah]

So thankful for people like Senator Hawley, Keep up the good work.

[@dogpatch75]

Wait till Hawley and the republicans succeed in privatizing USPS. Mail service to many rural areas will cease to exist!

[@jeffwright7373]

Does that mean $1 stamps, which still includes poor services?

[@HotSeat17]

Thank you Senator Hawley!!! ❤️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏✝️ I hope DOGE cuts alot of the waste, and corruption out of the USPS. It took my post office to get me a simple mail key to my box 8 MONTHS!!!! Amazon can deliver in one day....what's the freaking problem?

[@Sunlemming]

huge system being "reformed"

[@ej12349]

DeJoy is the corruption that Trump appointed to head up the Postal Service. DeJoy cut workers hours, destroyed thousands of expensive mailing equipment that made processing the mail more efficiently. DeJoy is the problem. He also wants to kill the USPS and run the mail out of his own company. That's your corruption.

[@PhilSaunders-c3n]

Businesses need that mail every day

[@ostekuste3646]

All the stuttering, classic nervous tactic of someone trying to justify a lie. If this organization is working off of taxpayer money it’s time to disband a failed system and come up with something new. Call for the usps to close completely

[@RichelleWatson615]

How will we get our mail?

[@POP80Y.8]

Thank you Sir, Excellent

[@chainshaw7792]

Let USPS start paying everybody's late fees.

[@jennyhayes9807]

YEA! That's My Senator!

[@karathejulia]

Fire this waste of tax payer money. Fire Louis Dejoy

[@lisapapandrea5]

Bills arrive late. Cost passed onto me. We need you Sen. Hawley in Maine. 😢

[@crainbolt5155]

Thank you (from rural Colorado) . Glad you’re on this issue! 😃

[@dogpatch75]

Wait till Hawley and the republicans succeed in privatizing USPS. Mail service to many rural areas will cease to exist!