US Postal Service head DeJoy to step down after 5 years marked by pandemic, losses and cost cuts By ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 3:27 PM EST, February 18, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louis DeJoy, the head of the U.S. Postal Service, intends to step down, the federal agency said Tuesday, after a nearly five-year tenure marked by the coronavirus pandemic, surges in mail-in election ballots and efforts to stem losses through cost and service cuts.
In a Monday letter, Postmaster General DeJoy asked the Postal Service Board of Governors to begin looking for his successor.
“As you know, I have worked tirelessly to lead the 640,000 men and women of the Postal Service in accomplishing an extraordinary transformation,” he wrote. “We have served the American people through an unprecedented pandemic and through a period of high inflation and sensationalized politics.”
DeJoy took the helm of the postal service in the summer of 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term. He was a Republican donor who owned a logistics business before taking office and was the first postmaster general in nearly two decades who was not a career postal employee. ...
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
After a 2024 net loss of $9,500,000,000.00 he should have been fired.
5:41 PM · Feb 18, 2025
