Twenty-one attorneys general from mostly Democrat-leaning states urged the Postal Regulatory Commission to block the proposed changes. Most controversially, the plan would lengthen expected delivery times for much first-class mail, raising opposition from an array of postal users. It aims to ensure the post office's financial stability by streamlining operations, ending reliance on air transport for long-distance mail, as well as investing in a new fleet of delivery vehicles.Īnother new governor, Anton Hajjar, said there "is a lot to like" in DeJoy's plan, but he expressed concerns about ending the use of air carriers to move the mail, saying he hasn't seen the proposed savings "quantified." He added, "The best days of this thinking and what it has to offer has come and gone."ĭeJoy announced his 10-year makeover of the Postal Service, "Delivering For America," in March.
Stroman, a former deputy postmaster general, noted at the Board of Governors open meeting that the country was "only beginning to emerge from a global pandemic" and is now struggling with the delta variant and that mail delivery was below pre-pandemic levels.īut he asserted that critics want the Postal Service "to stop what we are doing, study more, increase service, keep prices low, cut employee benefits," what DeJoy called "single-interest issues disguised as solutions."
Ronald Stroman, one of three new governors named by President Biden, said that intentionally slowing first-class mail and package delivery by changing service standards is "strategically ill-conceived, creates dangerous risks that are not justified by the relatively low financial return, and doesn't meet our responsibility as an essential part of America's critical infrastructure." Postal Service's Board of Governors spoke out Friday against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's plan to slow delivery of first-class mail.īut the board took no steps to stop or even modify the 10-year plan despite the concerns expressed by the board members and regulators.
Two of the newly confirmed members of the U.S. The price of a first-class stamp will go up 3 cents later in August to help pay for service changes.
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