Election of new chair portends change at U.S. Postal Service
Ron Bloom on Tuesday replaced a former Republican National Committee chair amid calls by critics for firing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and changing the board's makeup.
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Ron Bloom on Tuesday replaced a former Republican National Committee chair amid calls by critics for firing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and changing the board's makeup.
A former official during the Obama administration was named Tuesday as the new chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors as Democratic lawmakers…
Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- During today's meeting of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, Ron A. Bloom was unanimously elected by his fellow Governors to serve as the 24th chairman of the Board of Governors. The Governors also unanimously elected Roman Martinez IV to serve as vice chairman. Bloom succeeds Robert M. Duncan, the Board's chairman since Sept. 2018, and who continues his term as a Governor. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy congratulated Bloom and Martinez on their election to these leadership positions. He said that he has...
We “disappointed the nation,” DeJoy says of ongoing mail delays, while threatening slower service standards going forward.
There are currently three vacancies on the nine-person board. The American Postal Workers Union has called on Biden to fill the vacancies with Democrats, giving the party a simple majority. "It should become a 5-to-4 ... majority choices of the Democratic Party," Mark Dimondstein, the union's president, told NPR. Bloom said Tuesday that he would work with the agency's governors and its postmaster general, Louis DeJoy ADVERTISEMENT At Tuesday's meeting, DeJoy also reportedly apologized for mail service delays experienced by many Americans over the past year, which came amid both the COVID-19 ...