The U.S. Postal Service is planning to hire just 10,000 temporary employees during the current holiday season as part of a new approach that management has acknowledged comes with some risks.
The seasonal hiring marks a 64% reduction from the employees brought on in 2022 during what USPS calls its “peak season” when the agency made 28,000 temporary hires. The agency had said it would bring on just 20,000 seasonal workers that year, but a recent USPS inspector general report found it reached a higher tally.
The Postal Service is planning to hire about 4,500 retail and delivery employees, down 30% from last year, and about 5,500 operations and processing workers, a 75% reduction.
Why hire less workers? Is that shitty DeJoy still in charge?
Yes
Yes. Who would have removed him?
Well if they gave a fuck, the appointed board of governors could remove him at any time. They clearly don’t, though.
I thought I saw some article about a new member of the board being put in, so the Democrats would have the majority to remove him now. I guess it was too much to hope that had happened lol.
Biden’s last nominations were a Democrat and a Republican in May 2022, replacing 2 Democrats. So DeJoy is further from being removed than he was 2 years ago
NOTHING FUNDAMENTALLY WILL CHANGE 
I’m still absolutely floored that nobody has found a way to get that motherfucker out of there. He actively interfered with both the distribution and collection of mail-in ballots NATIONWIDE in the 2020 election by enacting policies with the express intent of delaying their receipt to the point that they would effectively be unofficially disregarded, and I would not be at all surprised to learn that he’s kept that bullshit up since then. I fully expect him to try exactly the same play in 2024.
It’s insane to me that he still has a job there.
My sympathies to anyone having to work for the USPS, temporarily or otherwise.
It used to be a solid, respectable job, until the GOP decided they wanted to enact a bunch of abjectly idiotic policies that have had the end result of making their cashflow entirely unsustainable, and then proceeded to complain that the USPS - a constitutionally-mandated (Article I, §8, Clause 7) government agency whose mission it is to provide a public service - isn’t profitable enough.
It’s not fucking supposed to be profitable. It’s a public fucking service.
Having worked as a CCA, I agree entirely.
