Keep US Posted Urges Rejection of DeJoy's Strategy Amid Loss

Keep US Posted, a nonprofit advocacy group of consumers, nonprofits, newspapers, greeting card publishers, magazines, catalogs, forestry and recycling interests, and small businesses dedicated to promoting the value of mail and protecting the long-term health of the U.S. Postal Service, reacted to USPS’ third quarter losses by urging new Postmaster General David Steiner to assess former Postmaster General’s Delivering for America plan and make corrections. Specifically, Keep US Posted calls on Steiner to reject DeJoy’s plans to continue massive rate hikes, service delays and the focus on packages over mail — all of which are driving mail from the system and hurting the financial viability of our nation’s mail network.

“For 250 years, the U.S. Postal Service has been a cornerstone of our nation's infrastructure, providing reliable and affordable mail service to every American, including those in the most remote and underserved areas which private couriers cannot, or will not, reach. Louis DeJoy blatantly ignored relief provided in the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, which, among other changes aimed at stabilizing USPS, eradicated the requirement for USPS to fund retiree health benefits 70 years in advance. Instead, DeJoy plowed ahead with his Delivering for America plan and its often twice-annual postage hikes far above inflation rates, as well as service delays, and a foolish focus on packages over mail, even though mail is still the largest revenue generator for USPS. While the Delivering for America plan promised to grow parcel volumes, lower costs, and allow the Postal Service to break even by 2023, it lost $6.5 billion that fiscal year, and it continues to hemorrhage money.”

Yoder continued, “Today’s financial results, which bring 2025 losses to $6.2 billion, provide even more proof that new Postmaster General David Steiner needs to lead the U.S. Postal Service away from DeJoy’s ‘tax and spend’ strategy. Steiner should take the losses as an opportunity for meaningful change, and discard massive and frequent rate hikes, service reductions and the prioritization of packages over mail. Steiner should free the American public from DeJoy’s disastrous decisions and pursue his own strategy to help USPS recover so that it can keep delivering to every American six-days per-week. With last month’s massive rate hikes, including a five-cent increase in the cost of forever stamps, the situation will no doubt worsen and push even more mail from the system.”

In addition to advocating for regulatory reform of DeJoy’s Delivering for America plan. Keep US Posted supports H.R.3004 — legislation called the “USPS Services Enhancement and Regulatory Viability Expansion and Sustainability for the U.S. Act” (or USPS SERVES US Act). The bill would give the Postal Regulatory Commission — the agency which regulates the USPS — the power to stop onerous stamp hikes and mail delays. The bill, which was introduced by Congressman Sam Graves (R-Mo.), would also limit price increases to once per-year, and institute other reforms aimed at accountability, efficiency and success — such as creating an autonomous Office of Customer Advocate to hear Americans’ concerns and protect the public.

Source: Keep US Posted

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