The New Changes To The Post Office are Not Clear and That is What Worry People That Know Trump
We know trump is never like the post office. He wanted to be like any store that sells stamps. But now that his numbers are through the floor and because of the Pandemic lots of people will be voting by mail. It used to be the safest easiest way to comply with your citizens rights and responsibilities. But with Trump putting a man in charge who is an ardent supporter common sense tells us Trump wants to burn us again.
While some have criticized Trump for appointing DeJoy as postmaster general even though he’s never worked for the post office, the new divisions will at least be headed by longtime Post Office employees for now, according to the PowerPoint presentation. For example, the head of delivery operations, Joshua Colin, has worked for the USPS since 2006, according to his LinkedIn profile. The new Vice President of retail, Angela Curtis, has worked there since 2011. Mike Barber, the new head of processing and maintenance operations, is in his 40th year at the organization.
That being said, the current postal workers Motherboard spoke to—on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak to the media—are worried not so much by what is being done as they are the speed with which it is occurring, especially when it’s implemented by a postmaster general with questionable motives, who has been on the job for less than two months. As one person familiar with the reorganization plan put it, there have been “too many major changes for DeJoy who has not had the time at the helm to fully understand the organization, which is not like any other business.”
Likewise, the USPS also announced a “new organizational structure” broken down into three units: Retail and delivery operations, logistics and processing operations, and commerce and business solutions.
This announcement confused some postal workers who don’t understand how it’s different than what currently exists. “We do have a separation between retail and delivery services and processing services and commercial services,” said a postmaster from New England. “Those are all different people in my district.” This person is unsure how a reorganization that doesn’t change anything can lead to efficiency and savings.
Even more concerning is the degree to which these changes have been seemingly coming out of nowhere. Typically the postmaster in New England will get some details from the district manager about what changes are coming before they’re announced. But that’s not how it’s happened under DeJoy. “I didn’t have any sense this was going to happen at all.”
While some have criticized Trump for appointing DeJoy as postmaster general even though he’s never worked for the post office, the new divisions will at least be headed by longtime Post Office employees for now, according to the PowerPoint presentation. For example, the head of delivery operations, Joshua Colin, has worked for the USPS since 2006, according to his LinkedIn profile. The new Vice President of retail, Angela Curtis, has worked there since 2011. Mike Barber, the new head of processing and maintenance operations, is in his 40th year at the organization.
That being said, the current postal workers Motherboard spoke to—on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak to the media—are worried not so much by what is being done as they are the speed with which it is occurring, especially when it’s implemented by a postmaster general with questionable motives, who has been on the job for less than two months. As one person familiar with the reorganization plan put it, there have been “too many major changes for DeJoy who has not had the time at the helm to fully understand the organization, which is not like any other business.”
Likewise, the USPS also announced a “new organizational structure” broken down into three units: Retail and delivery operations, logistics and processing operations, and commerce and business solutions.
This announcement confused some postal workers who don’t understand how it’s different than what currently exists. “We do have a separation between retail and delivery services and processing services and commercial services,” said a postmaster from New England. “Those are all different people in my district.” This person is unsure how a reorganization that doesn’t change anything can lead to efficiency and savings.
Even more concerning is the degree to which these changes have been seemingly coming out of nowhere. Typically the postmaster in New England will get some details from the district manager about what changes are coming before they’re announced. But that’s not how it’s happened under DeJoy. “I didn’t have any sense this was going to happen at all.”
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