Rand Paul Has Testy Exchange With Postmaster General About Hiring More Despite Plummeting Revenues 

I'm not defending him but just wonder who you think we should replace him with. Some lifetime appointed bureaucrat who has NEVER run a business and has little interest in efficiency. I think we have been doing that since the beginning of time and the post office has been hemorrhaging for decades and decades. 10 billion here... 8 billion there... another 10 billion a little while back. I kind of like the thought of a guy with EXTENSIVE experience in logistics and shipping. Congress should keep tabs on him and keep him straight but flat out get rid of him and replace him with a DC insider. Without a truly viable replacement that is a ridiculous idea. If you replace him with another savvy businessperson all this conspiracy stuff will just roll on and on. So we are probably stuck with 10 billion here... 8 billion there... another 10 billion a little while back. Fantastic idea. P.S. Rand Paul has the capacity to be upset with anyone. That's not a bad thing, it's how you keep things in line...

@@JeffLeasure -- Certain things are a necessary public service, and shouldn't be required to turn a profit, or be ultra efficient. Certain things need to have redundancy built into the system so that the system does not break down if a handful of employees had one location get sick or need surgery in an overlapping window of time, etc. Same reason that we have redundancy in staffing in hospitals. And for people in certain parts of the country, the USPS is the only way they would get things delivered to them, because the big carriers don't go that last mile out into the sticks. We don't need a bureaucrat for life, but we also don't need a businessman who stands to benefit in his own private business if he guts a public service like USPS. He has a clear conflict of interest.

@@TakenTook With all due respect. I think that's a load of crap. I'm sorry but I don't know what else to say. Let's take a guy with the strongest credentials for the job at hand, label those skills as a conflict of interest and replace him with who? Maybe we could pull someone out of Hollywood to handle the logistics. Who? First it was the (fully politically motivated) theory that "He was hired to subvert mail in voting in the 2020 election". If that's why he was actually hired I have to admit that he failed miserably at that task. But he did get rung through the wringer forwards and backwards over that BS propaganda. What's going on in this video is EXACTLY what should be happening. I used to get performance reviews on a yearly basis through most of my career. Completely normal. That's my opinion and I am not here to debate further. I vote for responsible, efficient government and won't be changing.

@@JeffLeasureDeJoy has his history in business. His personal investments give him an interest in seeing the postal service fail. The system ran better under a bureaucrat than it did under a corporate shill. DeJoy literally decommissioned and had destroyed, the machines that correlated mail. Machine worth a couple of million dollars. I’d take a career public servant, over DeJoy any day.

@@deviouskris3012 Apparently you though I said I wanted to debate when I said I'm not here to debate. I'll repeat... I think it's a load of crap and I AM NOT HERE TO DEBATE IT. End of story! Please understand that!

Trump appointte appointed to destroy the postal system on purpose and make it harder to vote by mail .

Ever heard the phrase, 'He threw a wrench in it?' DeJoy is the wrench. You can guess who the 'He' is. Clearly, they had their sights on destroying an American institution.

DeStroy is the perfect nickname for him.

You are lying! How many letters have been found YEARS later! I worked for the postal service and had an invitation to a child’s birthday party come to me to be delivered WEEKS after the party! The cancellation stamp was over a month old. What about the long lost love letter that was found YEARS later

Yup

This

Gotten worst under Dejoy. Lying and ignoring is how they roll. There are no standards. Follow the equipment he rips out.

Too many chiefs, aka management that haven’t a clue what they’re doing OTHER then meeting those magic WORK number hours! Even if that means running the workforce ragged

Yes, but they are so inefficient with the funds they are already getting they might not need any to begin with according to what someone said several years ago. They are wasting billions of dollars.

What makes it worse is when the time changes from 12 to 6 which is a disservice to the Customer that paid for it.

he is not appointed by the president. the pmg is appointed by a board of governors and can only be fired by a majority vote of the board of governors

Hours and pay lol take away carreer and it will only get worse.

60?! I work 70+.

Probably for less money now too. If he's lucky he would be one that for the time being hasn't had hours cut but expected to do same job.

100%

The Postal Service Reform Act repealed the 75 year Retirement Plan so they received $5B money from that.

Fire the government corrupt people get new ones in there that's going to run our country the right way

some of the worst postal employees I met were on college campuses

They do hire Veterans.

It has been designed to fail....for political profit.. and yes vets still working there and getting hired.

Once upon a time it was next to impossible to get on with the USPS unless you were a veteran. I took the Post Office exam in the late 70s and a few weeks later I got a letter the gist of which was "we had so many veterans take the test that we didn't even bother to grade yours". Today we have "we're hiring" signs on the back of every mail truck.

It's happening Nationwide because the USPS is still short staffed.

Things (everything) breaks and wears out and everything needs maintenance and repair. It's been that way since the beginning of time and will be that way till the end. I get about three pieces of mail a year that might be important. Other than that, I am 100% electronic. The chore I hate the most in life is going to my mailbox to empty all the junk and trash mail. P.S. What will they find? You seem to be in the know.

And he had perfectly good existing mail sorting machines removed from buildings and destroyed. It's like he was trying to sabotage USPS on purpose, which is not that much of a conspiracy theory given that he would profit in his own private business of shipping without competition from USPS. He never should've been hired, and he needs to be removed.

@@TakenTook That was a conspiracy theory floating around before the 2020 election. The post office has been bleeding for decades. That was a complete scam conspiracy theory that he was placed there to sabotage the election. I'm not defending the guy but believe that is complete garbage based on politics. Good day!

I'm still waiting to know what it is I will be shocked about them finding when they show up with subpoenas at the plants he is building. It's amazing how you can make ridiculous claims but you won't back them up. I seriously want to know what you THINK they will find. Come on now....

Because We need 6 day delivery the Postal Service Reform Act guarantees that We have that to maintain a 40 hour work week.

@@arienfox Thank you for your answer. But didn't I hear that the postal service is hiring more people? everyone can work Mon-Fri for 8 hours and you will maintain the 40 hour.

@@user-tz1jr6kz9e That won't work because each craft has a different days off; Carriers are on a rotation off day schedule during the week besides I don't want to deliver three days worth of mail if I don't have to.

​@@user-tz1jr6kz9e I'd keep the 6 day work week because I don't want to deliver three days worth of mail instead of two.

100% Mondays are horrible enough. Carriers get the brunt end of all the hate by everybody

I don't either. There seems to be a lot of knee jerk emotional reactions in this comment section, but no real analysis. I don't know much about Dejoy, he may suck, but if he is saying he is hiring more people to stop having to pay the current people 1.5 times as much to do the same job (overtime), besides those employees being overworked, how does that not save the Post Office money? Rand Paul keeps bringing up pensions, but new hires aren't drawing from the pension yet, they're actually contributing to it, so how would that be hurting their current bottom line? At one point, Rand Paul brings up getting rid of unions and using contractors because that's what the private sector would do to solve this problem. Yet UPS has a massive union and they seem to be doing just fine. Again, I can't figure out where Rand Paul is going with this. I'm assuming lobbyists groups that have contracts with the Post Office are influencing Rand Paul's narrative, but I have no idea. I usually follow the money to find the answers to why politicians say and do what they do and the verdict is still out on Dejoy for me. I want make clear that I am not a supporter of Dejoy, but Dejoy and that other guy didn't do a good job and pushing back.

I don't approve of Dejoy or "Delivering for America" but yeah most of the new labor force for the USPS isn't contributing or drawing from the pension fund. In fact turnover is still the really big issue, with most new employees leaving within 60 days. Not only that but they are paying below market rate for labor in most places because they don't use prevailing wage.

He wants to pretend USPS is supported by taxation, not postage, so that he can help eliminate USPS and allow the business to be privatized, satisfying corporate donors. His entire argument is in bad faith. As a letter carrier I can tell you that he has no idea about our operations.

This rant is all about Rand Paul and all of his colleagues who have for a long time wanting to see the post office privatized. Big corporations will bid and the post office will be split up between them. They'll be split up between regions and the workers will get paid lower wages, eliminate pensions and unions, all while the corporate Executives make big money, and Rand Paul and his colleagues receive payouts. He's going on about high paying pensions? Doesn't he and his fellow career politicians have big pensions? Why do they always not want the people to have something the very thing that they feel so entitled to have? The post office has a large amount of minorities as employees. Not to mention the countless number of veterans who retire and go to work there. Yes it could use improvements. But do those and let the hard-working middle-class Americans who work for the Post Office be able to continue to work and when it's time for them to retire, collect their hard-earned pensions!!!

It's okay. Rand probably doesn't understand his argument either. He's never put in an honest day's work in his life. The last thing he would be able to comprehend is the taxing physical job that carriers, clerks and dock workers do every day for the postal service. He talks about numbers and doesn't care about people. Rand and people like him in power want to see the post office fail so it gives them a reason to privatize it. You think mail and package delivery is slow now? Wait until FedEx or UPS owns parts of the postal service. You'll be lucky to get mail three or four days a week. If you mail a mortgage payment (because the stamp is cheaper than the online charge they add if you pay it online) it could take weeks to get there. And don't expect to get mail delivered for free anymore. They'll charge you for home delivery or to rent out a box at a place of their choosing. If you live in a rural area, just forget about ever getting mail again because you're too far away for them to deliver it. You'll just have to figure out a way to do it yourself. Does the post office have problems? Yes. Are they fixable? Yes. Is what DeJoy doing going to fix them? No. He knows he's lying the entire time, that's why he's blinking and unable to look at the person he's speaking to the entire time. He just wants to kill the post office faster so the companies he has stocks in can start cannibalizing it.

remember though, the USPS is not government. It is supposed to be completely self funding.

@@mikeschumacher9715 hasn't balanced a budget in 30 plus years. And the gov keeps throwing money at it. Kicking dead horses is a common gov policy.

@@wydoesntexist The USPS is not supposed to be a profit center -- it is a basic function of government.

Explain please? Otherwise your comment is useless. Not trying to be rude but please explain what you mean and your credentials to make that comment. Bet you can't do it.

What does him being an immigrant have anything to do with him being shitty at his job

America is the land of opportunity

Yeah, taking a cut but trying to do the same job. Less money 6 days a week instead of 5 . I think they're trying to see who they can get rid of by exhausting them.

@@StevenJAckerman 🤣

It's scheduled for $.73 for First Class delivery; The Forever Stamps you can always use no matter what the denomination is.

@@arienfox thank you I put the price down wrong by mistake I wish I wasn’t lol

I believe it's like 57 cents

@@SherryMooneyhan-md2gq You're welcome.

@@SherryMooneyhan-md2gq I don’t mail out much, if anything now, but some said to me the other day, “here, can you take this letter with a $0.73 stamp on it and take from Vermont to Alaska in 5 or less days?” Pretty sure you’d use up that $0.73 before you got to the end of your driveway. Just a little perspective.

This mess was created by Obama. I remember hearing older people predicting this. Working for the post office used to be a good Career choice.

Appointed by Trump.

Trump nominated Dejoy.

Appointed by Trump.