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Biden’s Postal Service nominees could mean DeJoy ouster

President Joe Biden plans to replace two U.S. Postal Service board of governors members in a move Washington insiders say could be a potential first step to removing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Derek Kan, an executive with warehouse and delivery startup Deliverr, would replace John Barger, according to a White House announcement on Friday. Kan previously served in the Trump administration in the Office of Management and Budget and as an undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation...

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Postal Service tractor-trailer driver recounts ‘slow and steady’ service decline

A U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer driver testified before Congress on Tuesday that operational changes over the past year have resulted in a “slow and steady decline and delay” of the nation’s mail.

Brian McLaurin, a 23-year veteran of the struggling agency, told lawmakers that heavy-duty truck drivers working for the Postal Service had been empowered over the years to move the mail on time by waiting for their truck to be fully loaded before heading out from the loading dock — and getting...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/postal-service-tractor-trailer-driver-recounts-slow-and-steady-service-decline

Lawmakers grill DeJoy on alleged conflicts of interest with Amazon, XPO

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy insisted during a five-hour grilling from lawmakers on Monday he has no conflicts of interest with either his former company or a major customer of his current agency.

The hearing before the Democrat-run House Committee on Oversight and Reform was considerably longer and more hostile than the one at which DeJoy was called to testify last week by the Republican-controlled Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Amid calls from several lawmakers for...

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