The chair of the House Oversight Committee released documents today that show an across-the-board drop in service levels for all classes of mail, a greatly more significant reduction in service than the “dip” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy referred to in Congressional testimony Friday, the Washington Post reports.
Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) said in a statement, “After being confronted on Friday with first-hand reports of delays across the country, the Postmaster General finally acknowledged a ‘dip’ in service, but he has never publicly disclosed the full extent of the alarming nationwide delays caused by his actions and described in these new documents.”
The documents show a slowdown in service by 10-15% and increases in delivery time for First Class, Priority Mail, periodical and parcel shipments since the first week in July 2020.
The drop in service coincides with DeJoy assuming office June 16, 2020. A significant contributor to President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, DeJoy and his wife, the designee to be the US ambassador to Canada, also have more than $30 million in investments in commercial parcel delivery services.
Trump has also made the competence of the US Postal Service an issue in the 2020 election, claiming without evidence that mail-in ballots are rife with fraud.