Senate Republicans Stand With the Postmaster General, Even as He Admits Mail...
Louis DeJoy, the embattled US postmaster general, defended his policy changes in recent weeks, telling the Senate Homeland Security Committee that his efforts to make the Postal Service more efficient...
View ArticleAs Trump Accepts His Party’s Nomination, Republicans Double Down on Cheating
As President Donald Trump prepares to formally accept the Republican Party’s nomination for his reelection contest with a speech at tonight’s convention, the last-ditch dismantling of the US Postal...
View ArticleA Federal Judge Says USPS Delays Were an “Intentional Effort” to Undermine...
A federal judge blocked a series of actions implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy that have led to widespread mail delays, calling them “an intentional effort on the part of the current...
View ArticleA Postal Worker Filed Three OSHA Complaints about COVID Protections. She Got...
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Last November,...
View ArticleDefying Logic and Biden, Louis DeJoy Gets His Gas-Guzzling Mail Trucks
No one, not even the president or the Environmental Protection Agency, is going to get in the way of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s fleet of gas-powered mail trucks. Despite the EPA’s objections,...
View ArticleCan Congress Stop Louis DeJoy’s Plan to Buy a Fleet of Gas-Guzzling Trucks?
As postmaster general, Louis DeJoy has been mired in controversy. Appointed in May 2020 after making massive donations to Donald Trump, DeJoy has sought to implement a plan of austerity to the United...
View ArticleA Wave of Lawsuits Aims to Halt Louis DeJoy’s Gas-Guzzling Postal Fleet
The saga of the United States Postal Service’s planned gas-guzzling fleet continues. Sixteen states and two environmental activist groups—Earthjustice and the National Resources Defense Council—are...
View ArticleUSPS to Buy a Ton of Electric Delivery Trucks
In February, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced his plan to buy a badly needed new United States Postal Service delivery fleet. There was just one problem: Ninety percent of the trucks would be...
View ArticleThe IRA Gives USPS Billions to Buy Electric Vehicles
The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law this week, includes a windfall for the United States Postal Service: $1.29 billion for the purchase of zero-emission delivery trucks,...
View ArticleThe USPS Fleet Is Going Electric
Forget Dylan in ’65. Get ready for the USPS in ’26. Last month, the USPS laid out its plan for increasing the proportion of electric vehicles from the 10 percent it initially promised: By 2028, 45,000...
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