USPS Postmaster General to testify under oath about North Georgia mail problems

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will testify under oath to a senate committee on Tuesday about the postal dysfunction in North Georgia. Sen. Jon Ossoff plans to publicly question DeJoy between 10 a.m. and noon in a hearing when the US Senate Security and Governmental Affairs Committee meets. READ: tinyurl.com/4kn5mrbj

[@vickiadams-rh1rx]

Talk to the carriers and clerks and they’ll tell u the problem. These suits have no idea how to run the post office.

[@Demoniapsu]

Facts!

[@trixiemcfly8584]

Carrier opinion here: poor management at the stations, seniority based promotion vs merit based promotion, each craft has a different contract and union which leads to an "us vs them" mentality and low morale, workers are not able to work as a cohesive unit, and union protects bad employees and burns out good employees.

[@walkerkennett940]

Just remember we can’t have penalty.

[@mmats2001]

Management only cater to themselves and to benefit their close friends and family without the usps.

[@fabfivepickers]

​​@@trixiemcfly8584agree 100%. Especially the last piece about the Union backing bad employees and burning out the good

[@andrewousley1685]

Fire him he slowed the mail down during an election and I for one don't trust his ass.

[@SaltySilverStacker]

During the election we actually were hounded and treated election mail like express or same day day delivery before poles close. Postmaster or supervisor delivers election mail for absentees on Election Day.

[@roxanbradley91]

He also removed mailboxes in Maryland during last election to try & help Trump cheat for elections. They didn’t want mail ballots which ARE legal. Voter suppression is illegal. It’s for ALL Americans. I never trusted DeJoy. He is no joy at all. He also removed the computerized sorters taking USPS back to draconian days. He must go! Let us 🙏🏽 the union & higher ups in management get rid of him. USPS has never been this bad. A lot of my family retired from USPS when it was good.

[@beverlywalker8026]

Ever since Dejoy got there it's been going down ever since

[@SaltySilverStacker]

@@beverlywalker8026 I know my job as a rural carrier is hounded constantly. I’ve also noticed mail that typically for weekly subscribers used to arrive Thursday, arrives Saturday or Monday now. My craft gets blamed for late mail when we deliver it when we get it.

[@SnarkyMcSnarkles]

Would it surprise you to know that Biden cant fire him. The board of governors of the USPS are the only ones who can and until recently were filled with Trump appointees and wouldn't fire De Joy.

[@Theopionsoftweetie]

Management is the number one reason people can’t and won’t stay with the post office. It’s always looked over being a postal worker it’s ridiculous how they make you feel like your not needed

[@TruckDriver_Em215]

THATS IT FOLKS, Senator Hassan gets it, I love Sen. Hassan’s comments: “LISTEN TO THE EMPLOYEES, THEY ARE THE EXPERTS ON MOVING THE MAIL.”

[@knightwing41]

As a postal carrier myself, seeing this brings me ABSOLUTE JOY…never liked nor trusted DEJOY..should’ve been gone from DAY ZERO

[@Slick0Vick0Aww0Shyt]

But does it bring you absolute DeJoy 😊see what i did there😂

[@Gracefully_Baked]

Senator Hassan said it best: “listen to the employees”. We are the ones on the ground actually delivering, being forced to commute longer distances, being micromanaged to exhaustion all in the pursuit of Dejoys failing plan. Understaffed, underpaid, but they continue to hire management to get us to do double the work in the same amount of time. It will fail. Bravo to her for saying it how it is.

[@johnwright9372]

Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. Typical corporate management.

[@tiffanyminor9167]

They won’t talk to the employees cause we speak truth! We’re going to give them facts ! It’s the employees that RUN the post office that knows and aware what the customers needs are ! We are aware we are 1st contact

[@TruckDriver_Em215]

Love this comment right here

[@Ghaztoir]

Get rid of the no strike clause! Lets see how management disrespects the unions when they lose their money

[@lamar6691]

Fire his corrupt butt

[@audiemae9693]

Exactly!!! And "let's go Brandon"

[@Natalie-un3co]

​@@audiemae9693I'm sure Dozin' Don would agree

[@nesha76able]

Exactly

[@maryandrade7193]

Why is Dejoy still in this position? He was a failure the first year Trump put him this position. He needs to be removed immidently

[@Demoniapsu]

We need a few people in for the board to remove him

[@FVMan-rh4xw]

Nah you really think people would think twice about instilling morons in positions where it’s particularly difficult to remove them from 😂

[@johnwright9372]

He was Trump's plant to wreck Mail in ballots, while benefitting his own business interests.

[@johnwright9372]

Only the board can remove him. Trump appointed DeJoy who has donated some $600,000 to Trump's PAC. What happens to every business Trump had a hand in?

[@jamoin4310]

This is bs, the board appointed him and Trump didn’t even knew about it or him donating to him, cause dejoy knew back then that trump is on twitter a lot so he didn’t told him. Trump also said he should be fired if he did something wrong, he doesn’t care about him. Trump also lost the election while dejoy was in office, so wtf are you talking about?

[@midas8258]

Delivering for His Own Pocket.

[@DeeOne4U1983]

And now his son n daughter has a trucking company DAYUM

[@cjrogers1000]

How dare he! I’ve worked 34 years! I’ve never worked harder than today! Smh

[@HDJair]

Excessive blinking is a physical sign of disshonesty

[@nesha76able]

And studderring

[@johnwright9372]

DeJoy has been in the job for years.

[@hbrwn1986]

They are taking away money from the carriers to help “save money”. While these people make bank, the hardest working people in the post office (mail carriers) are feeling the worst of it. How about investigate how they are taking more than 10,000 a year away from carriers but they are still required to work the same amount. No one feels sorry for you. Get out the office and actually talk to the employees.

[@derekjones4370]

Benjamin Franklin would be pissed at Dejunk for running a company so poorly that he founded. The worst postmaster in over 200 years. 👎👎👎

[@arienfox]

It's just a hot mess 🤬

[@Dana19443]

Disappearing mail ! Twice my mail has not been delivered

[@joseburgos8214]

They should not roll anymore of these central facilities until they figure out how to fix the two that are not working now.

[@Demoniapsu]

We were not just understaffed but the regulars had enough of new rules and carriers being screwed over by everything from either the RRECS system, excuses from management for staffing, denying a lot of time off and then being told "there is no coverage" when there is coverage. It is all about bonuses for management

[@loswitdahoodie617]

SAVE THE POST OFFICE

[@jackieroberts7271]

I could write a book on the corruption in the post office, all the way down to the unions!

[@derekjones4370]

Worst postmaster in my 36 years of postal service, his plan is not working and will never work, because of his greed of postal profits, taking mail off of fedex planes and putting mail on his truck carriers, delaying the mail and slowing things up👎👎👎👎👎

[@junedeike6144]

It's gotten real bad. No consolidation by me yet but it's a huge domino effect. Last night I went back to my office because the night truck ( 6pm) dropped off baby chics. They were over 24 hours old already. If we left them in our building overnight there is a huge risk they would have died before morning. Totally ridiculous. I delivered them myself and went back home around 7pm.

[@janethunter5530]

You are so right!!!

[@ronniefuller2334]

It use to be an honor to be a post man, it use to mean something to say I am a postal employee Dejoy went in and took away all the amenities across the U.S which weakened the foundation of the USPS and he did so with the approval of the so call Board of Governors, the body which appointed him. This board is not worth the paper their names are written on. Dejoy is a member of that manipulating, non functional board that has no accountability to anyone. This board should be disbanded immediately, they're all in it together from Start to finish

[@RDBean]

SAVE THE POST OFFICE! REMOVE DEJOY

[@mikenodine6713]

USPS headquarters Management REFUSED to listen to the Local Postal Unions and willfully violated and continues to violate the longstanding Postal Union Labor Contracts. This has never happened before since the Postal Reformation Act of 1970. So of course employee attendance and attitude has been impacted because employee scheduling changes were not done in accordance with the Labor Contracts. This is a clear sign the USPS HQ management does not have a clue what they are doing and are completely incompetent to manage changes on such a massive scale. And don't think the Postal Unions aren't invested in the success of the Postal Service, their very existence depends on the success of the USPS. But if your goal is to destroy the USPS and delete the Postal Unions in order to privatize the Post Office, then DeJoy is a brilliant mastermind, equaling the greatest of all Corporate Raiders. It has been said the Atlanta RPDC in Palmetto GA is a leased building that is owned by DeJoy's wife. Someone needs to investigate whether this rumor is true or not. It would appear to be a severe conflict of interest if it is true.

[@Phaeron123]

Really need to just abolish unions. They are always the cause of problems for everyday Americans.

[@DC-gp3jo]

We the workers should have been able to attend this meeting so we could’ve express everything

[@maryandrade7193]

Put the mail sorting machines back in force. Thisv P.M. needs to be fired., let go, replaced now.

[@stevestowell8752]

You have no idea how the post office works. As a postal worker I can say things are better under dejoy.

[@mikenodine6713]

Many of the Delivery Barcode Sorters that sort letters were scrapped when Dejoy became Postmaster General. They cannot be replaced easily because the Post Office never made the final payments for the last ones purchased some 20 years ago and at least one company vowed to never sell sorting machines to the USPS again.

[@DeeOne4U1983]

@@mikenodine6713 EXACTLY THE 2ND DAY HE WAS IN OFFICE NATIONWIDE SORTING MACHINES REMOVED FROM ALL PLANTS 😡😡😡 😢😢 😢

[@Ghaztoir]

Bs! You are a manager masquerading as a postal worker!@

[@josephwheeler8753]

Incompetency at the top is the problem!!

[@Demoniapsu]

Georgia Senator is awesome!

[@derekjones4370]

Dejunk is always bringing up the past when he wasn’t even there. His logistics plan in the postal service will never work. He’s bringing his old platform to a new platform he never ran before. This stage is bigger than the one he left and he can’t handle it, he lied to trump and said he could fix the postal service, but made it extremely worse. He’s dealing with the whole United States and millions of people which he is failing to keep happy. He’s not concerned about customer satisfaction, but concerned about padding his pockets. This tyrant must be fired!!!!!

[@josephwheeler8753]

No. He did not lie to Trump. This is a plot by Trump's handlers, his corporate backers, right-wing think tanks, and fascist Republicans. The Unionized postal workers are some of the most loyal supporters of the Democrat Party. For this reason alone, the Republicans are willing to sacrifice the US Postal Service; plus, they have been delivering the absentee ballots efficiently for decades.

[@lisadavey5923]

Booyah..., Senator "Os" said you got about a couple of weeks not month .. ooowweee.

[@eluxatixan]

It’s not that hard says a man that never delivered a day in his life.. pay your workers and agree to what the union is asking take care of your workers and they will take care of you…

[@rhamiageorge249]

PERIOD!!!

[@henreenguyen9767]

Sen. Hassan is 100% correct! Listen to the carriers. They’re the expert on their craft.

[@sevsfd6689]

I can solve the loss the postal service has… fired most of postal management because as I’m sure all employees have seen they just sit there costing more than they are worth. You are welcome whoever it may concern.

[@Demoniapsu]

Agreed

[@shill1444]

Wait, it's even worse than that. They took the overtime away from the employees, took a fifth day of work away from the new hires and instead gave bonuses to the bosses for performance.

[@YellowJeep]

The Atlanta post office is like a massive sinkhole for mail and packages. They go in, and if you're lucky they come out a week later.

[@curtiswashington1077]

I’m a carrier in the ATL area. It might be the most poorly ran place I have ever been apart of. Those plants are doing nothing but causing more confusion and slower delivery times.

[@YellowJeep]

@@curtiswashington1077 Thanks for the info, Curtis. I'm in North Metro, and it seems like maybe 4 or 5 years ago I started noticing packages taking way too long or going missing. Last week, I had a package go through the Palmetto facility to the main distribution center and then back to Palmetto and then back again. Something isn't right, lol.

[@jenniferricker4207]

Same in Wichita KS plant.

[@burrito-fr1lt]

Look I work for the post office and he’s saying it’s going to get better. But let me tell you that they are shipping Atlanta mail from Atlanta to New York, Ohio, Texas and so on and asking them to process the mail and ship it back to them as ready to deliver mail. There’s no way it’s getting better because it’s putting the rest of the plants behind by doing their work. They littery send it there. With hand written notes from post masters that say “just get it done” like what? Get your mail done? He’s an idiot.

[@Demoniapsu]

Man! That senator from Nevada was awesome. Just wait until you see her talk to Dejoy almost halfway through the video

[@ProdikalChildSum04]

GA SEN GOT HIM TOO

[@kristengraham6483]

Omg she is great

[@alphawatters]

He is going to make sure Americans don't get the ballets on time and again he will put it on the employees

[@DeeOne4U1983]

📣📣📣 SAY THAT AGAIN definitely him n his buddy plan while he's making money 💰 over fist

[@courtneymcbride2001]

I think you meant to use the word “Ballots” not “Ballets”. It is important to know how to spell. Illiteracy is a bigger problem in America than USPS.

[@lind3237]

That’s why trump appointed him postmaster general, to slow down mail delivery.

[@elbarbon7949]

Where’s our contract

[@rhamiageorge249]

THAT POINT!!!!!..BACK PAY!

[@oldschoolhats9752]

They do not care about their customers and they’re gonna lose millions and millions of dollars. We’re about to switch to UPS and we ship 100,000 packages a year.

[@Ghaztoir]

The bs is coming from the top, the workers arent being asked the best way to do things

[@buxnmax]

HA! Senator Hassan telling them they need to listen to the employees??? They didn't like hearing that one bit. They don't give a crap what employees think about anything.

[@nigelthomas6642]

This is not a private sector this guy doesn't know what he is doing

[@kidstormtv]

You would get more information about productivity if you talk to people who actually work the mail. Spend a day in a plant.

[@Demoniapsu]

He closed so many facilities. We are delayed because he forced out the people who are 30 to 40 miles away from the location they now have to no where to go

[@eluxatixan]

Nalc contact has been in the works for almost a year in May, do we all think he cares about US mail carriers. It’s insane pay us more than ups and fedex and you will see performances off the charts.

[@carlaward5368]

Our plant manager won’t even speak when he’s on the floor and please don’t ask management a question they look at you and drive off on there cart if you don’t know the answer find out and come back and let me know and they make anybody a supervisor and they don’t know the mail😂

[@markwiegard8384]

Right on Langford….over spending on foreign aid and not on US challenges is an issue and what’s hurting seniors and Veterans

[@samysd619]

I have been a carrier for 10 years and I watched the whole hearing. The issue I have here is DeJoy isn't telling the whole story. Yes it takes time for all the change and the post office definitely needs it but the change needs to be internally not just structurally. He didn't talk about how we have a staffing shortage due to a toxic management environment. Alot of these facilities do not have the people to cover all the routes cause new employees quit after being treated horribly. Now I'm seeing carriers quit that are 10 and even 15 years in. Tacoma WA just got a new postmaster within 3 weeks he's harassed and even cause physical harm to a carrier. This is a job and we have rights and these bullies that cannot even respect basic human rights is what will bring the post office to a breaking point. Carriers are tired, overworked and extremely underpaid. We come in cause we love our job and what it stands for, for our customers. So please when your mail comes at 9pm at night just remember that carrier is doing all they can and have probably been on the clock for 12+ hours.

[@cindyturner-tc9xc]

He's cutting hrs to save money but wants to go with all electric vehicles, what the hell?

[@DanFields-tb1mh]

Many, Many, many checks are missing and have never been delivered. Where are they? ...... and they ask to increase postal fees?????

[@julesgarcia9]

Meanwhile…USPS management are still taking in bonuses while raising the cost of postage. The oversight committee should look into the ‘ PAY FOR PERFORMANCE’ program.

[@Demoniapsu]

Agreed. Make them use a scanner and do the RRECS we have

[@juliusthompson9306]

Facts

[@shill1444]

PFP program. Yup.

[@dartanjanshielda9841]

No overtime for nobody and mail still not moving

[@caviar2014]

SMH

[@Demoniapsu]

Dejoy created this problem

[@redformaze5968]

Listening to this hearing, these are truly the most incompetent people to be put in charge of the bank in the game Monopoly let alone a Nationwide Postal Service. What are we doing even hiring this DeJoy guy? Why was he not fired today?

[@htimsregor540]

Crazy slow. Waiting 18 days plus for paychecks to North Ga from NV. Even paying for priority mail! Still 16 days. Snail mail would be better. This is like watching paint dry.

[@AndrewDavis-mt5zo]

I went out to my car Friday and found someone else's mail on the windshield of my car! Drove up to the post office to tell them that someone put mail on my windshield and the Postmaster was embarrassed and said well take care of it while asking someone else who had that particular route?

[@moniquehawley4404]

I have a letter mailed out of Georgia on March 1, 2024 that is still held up in the Georgia post office. What exactly is going on? Please clear out all the mail that is just sitting

[@DC-gp3jo]

Is he slow? Did he not just hear the man say two plants are ready change to what he wants and is not working.

[@Demoniapsu]

I bet the calls were coming in like crazy in complaints and management took the phone off the hook

[@soteriology400]

I work as a carrier for USPS. It absolutely needs to be reformed.

[@Gunna2205]

All this stuttering he’s doing you should be able to tell he’s lying. But I don’t see how they don’t see he killing the post office and that’s sad. You don’t want people to quit but you’re making your employees drive up to two hours away?!? Think how they are going to work after driving like that. Yes you’re asking people to quit. Let’s be smart here people. The post office is not a freight company, it’s the place for letters and small packages. Ask some of the employees what to do to make things better.

[@corwin8359]

Fire his behind our mail is slower than it ever has

[@shadowstriker7164]

my package went from NEW YORK TO MASSACHUSETTS WTF IS GOING ON?!

[@Demoniapsu]

On @22:00 he is so full of garbage. I was working every day to make sure people were ok while delivering packages. It was like Christmas everyday for a whole year

[@metacrypto2_062]

It’s Neveda sir 😂 @59:26

[@darydara9037]

They never deliver my passport since last year.

[@tammywilliams5424]

I have packages that I shipped as a business that sat in Atlanta for 2 weeks or longer. My customers are angry and want refunds. Claims have been filed with the PO for the "lost" packages with the majority of those claims being rejected. I now use UPS 90% of the time due to the incompetency with the PO.

[@christenvincent2061]

Our contract is like niland, ca old news

[@derekjones4370]

Getting my Christmas present from 2023 in March of 2024 is unacceptable.👎

[@ryancaspersen5284]

I work in a plant and i understand what dejoy is trying to do, the problem is that nobody talked to the employees and putting people in management that have NO BUSINESS being in leadership. Dejoy should have known better that his management wasnt up to par, if there is plant failures, poor communication, toxic work environment and so on. Dejoy should have looked at his management and looked qt the process with the employees and not management that cooks the books and tells him what he wants to hear. Also dejoy should have learned the business before thinking about changing EVERYTHING

[@walkerkennett940]

Can’t have an opinion on this because I work for usps. But I know the issue. We can’t do our job because we can’t work pass 10 hours. So double time. We’ve also have to cut mail to and hinder it to stay in 10 hours. Lucky I haven’t had that problem yet.

[@ProdikalChildSum04]

You lucky fedexers be milking the clock I am like get in and get out

[@shill1444]

10 hours? Most mail handlers and clerks inside the big facilities are not allowed to work past 8 hours. I've never seen anything like this. How do you provide a service that is supposed to stretch across the globe and not allow the people within these 50 states to get any overtime to move that service??

[@jfhoward8264]

Fire the Postmaster General!

[@djtitovelez4587]

he keep forgetting that this is a mail delivery

[@bradmcdaniel9675]

This man should be fired - TODAY!!!!!!!!!!

[@DC-gp3jo]

OK, so at the end of the day after this meeting, they see how everything is not working. What’s the end go? What are they gonna do with him?

[@thejmc4074]

Any of these , like Mr. Paul, who don’t want to hire career employees do not deserve your vote.

[@metacrypto2_062]

Dam teddy and his No strike law

[@kcgunesq]

Senator Butler couldn't be more different and i doubt we agree on much of anything. But her questioning of DeJoy was excellent.

[@ProdikalChildSum04]

Love the advocacy for Veterans

[@marianestes3916]

the mail i am sending out is not getting to the destination ,

[@dorenerussell2668]

Get rid of DeJoy

[@elizabethashley1462]

Sadly, I talked to my local office and they like dejoy. But I think he has started this whole problem

[@Ghaztoir]

Did you speak to a manager or actual working carriers?

[@scottsmith1455]

So happy I don’t work in a mail processing facility. This is where the real problems lie and it sounds extremely challenging due to mismanagement

[@dartanjanshielda9841]

And your still cutting hours make it make sense

[@DistrustUS]

Think of those who have died and didn’t get to collect any pension

[@kheangnou8582]

pay us more

[@jeffreycheng5984]

Delivering for America.

[@nickjewell471]

I'm waiting for a package from hazelwood mo and it's 30 days over....it was randomly sent from hazelwood by mistake to Columbia il and Columbia sent it back to hazelwood so the process will start all over....can't even get the package out of usps hand to ship fedex......crazy this is allowed to go on

[@DeeOne4U1983]

Columbia SC employees given 3 day notice of shift change those on Tour1 830pm-5am now must report 12am-830am 3 day notice 😡😡😡😡

[@markwiegard8384]

Butler, ballots all delivered by mail isn’t the PO’s problem it’s a California problem

[@johnwright9372]

A national institution that was created before the Declaration of Independence is not just a business, it is a public service. It is no longer a monopoly. Traditionally the service would make profits in centres of concentrated populations and subsidise the service in less populared and rural areas. The USPS is facing very similar problems to those faced by the UK Post Office and Royal Mail which were founded over 500 years agom Mail delivers have to learn the route which means being shown it by an experienced person. That means they have to have terms and conditions which make the job attractive and financially worthwhile. Ot Is is

[@markwiegard8384]

Rosen, what impacts our seniors is your spending habits not mail delivery. Sending money to other countries isn’t helping our seniors it’s creating inflation. Spending SSn money isn’t helping seniors either. If you want to help seniors quit spending taxpayers money on other countries and spend it on the US, like the PO.

[@Natalie-un3co]

Such a liar

[@nickjewell471]

Also keep an eye out for initiatives to reconstruct the overall infrastructure to favor big government....as the government seeks to gain total control of everything it will restructure things to favor that

[@sunniglory514]

Yea the USPS is a disaster of an organization! Since September 2023 I have had nearly 5 packages severely damaged resulting in them having to be exchanged with the merchant costing me thousands of $$$! As of today the USPS has yet to respond with adequate sufficiency with regard to the whereabouts of another package of mine that they lost enroute to the merchant I was sending it too after horrific damage upon USPS delivery to me prior. I've submitted service request, MRC requests, & my package was insured; yet still to this very day 04/26/2024 they have no answer about the whereabouts of my package!

[@markwiegard8384]

Butler, have you ever run a broken delivery system that has been broken for decades? You don’t have a clue! 🤦‍♂️

[@carlaward5368]

He wants to use his companies he is dirty

[@lind3237]

So his business plan to improve efficiency is to slash staffing and eliminate sorting machines?

[@Rustea314]

Benjamin Franklin started the post office because government is the problem 😂.

[@sebastianrook5478]

Why is he still in his position?

[@HMurphy]

we get 2 pieces of mail with the subs, they leave it to the original guys not fair at all, mail has slowed down, and we pay more,

[@suegee6386]

A good 10-15 years of unskilled and ABUSIVE MANAGEMENT who ride the employees who work, play favorites with others, plus COVID when many post offices had 1/2 the workers off for months at a time - DeJoy should’ve been focused on TRAINING MGMT to respect the worker and when morale improved USPS would have willing workers who want to help the system get better. As it is, most of us are so exhausted and frustrated, we are just keeping our heads above water.

[@user-cp8os2vc1c]

Look we are in the business of parcels, if we’re going to compete in this growing market, we need to make changes to be competitive to get our employees trained developed into this new growing market. What we need to do it teams show our employees how important and valuable they are to the United States Postal Service and how important our our career is to all American citizens how we touch each and every ZIP Code in the United States and have a big impact on our elderly and our veterans and our Native Americans on the reservations where no one else wants to go and deliver the United States Postal Service we will deliver

[@Ghaztoir]

Abusive management is destroying usps.