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Louis DejoyThe head of the American postal service intends to resign, the Federal Agency said on Tuesday, after a mandate of almost five years marked by the coronavirus pandemic, increases in electoral bulletins by mail.
In a Monday letter, the post owner, Dejoy, asked the postal service board of directors to start looking for his successor.
“As you know, I worked tirelessly to direct the 640,000 men and women of the postal service to accomplish an extraordinary transformation,” he wrote. “We served the American people through an unprecedented pandemic and through a period of strong inflation and sensational policy.”
Dejoy took the lead in the summer of 2020 during the first term of President Donald Trump. He was a republican donor who had a logistics company before taking office and was the first post master in almost two decades who was not a career postal employee.
Dejoy has developed a 10 -year plan to modernize STEM operations and losses. He previously declared that postal customers should get used to increases in “uncomfortable” rate because the postal service seeks to stabilize its finances and become more self -sufficient.
The plan calls to make the mail delivery system more efficient and less expensive by consolidating mail treatment centers. Critics, including members of the congress of several states, said that the first consolidations had slowed the service and that new consolidations could particularly affect the delivery of rural mail.
Dejoy challenged this and said to a subcommittee of the American Chamber at a controversial hearing in September that the postal service had embarked on investments expected in “Ratty” facilities and to make other modifications to Create “a postal service for the future” which delivered the mail faster.
Dejoy also supervised the postal service in two presidential elections which saw peaks in postal bulletins.
Before the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge limited one of the cost reduction practices of the postal service after finding that it has contributed to delays in mail delivery. Dejoy had restricted overtime for the posts and stopped the agency’s long -standing practice to allow late and additional truck deliveries in the summer of 2020. The moves reduced costs but meant that certain letters were left To be delivered the next day.
Dejoy said in his letter that he was determined to be “as useful as possible to facilitate a transition”.