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Louis DeJoy
Louis DeJoy (born June 20, 1957) is an American businessman who served as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and resigned on March 24, 2025. Before being appointed, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump. DeJoy was the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in USPS, and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately owned competitor to the public–private partnership of the USPS entity. His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.
DeJoy was criticized for his cost-reduction policies enacted after assuming office in June 2020, which included eliminating overtime, and banning late or additional trips to deliver mail. The Postal Service also continued responding to long-term declines in first class mail volume with ongoing decommissioning of hundreds of high-speed mail-sorting machines and removal of the lower-volume mail collection boxes from streets. These practices were also criticized as mail delivery became delayed. The changes took place during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, raising fears that the changes would interfere with voters who used mail-in voting to cast their ballots, possibly intentionally. Congressional committees and the USPS inspector general investigated. In August of that year, amid public pressure, DeJoy said that the changes would be suspended until after the election, and in October the USPS agreed to reverse all of them.
In March 2021, DeJoy issued a 10-year plan called "Delivering for America" to stabilize the finances of the Postal Service by slowing first class mail delivery, optimizing transportation networks, cutting post office hours, and raising prices. The plan assumed Congress would relieve the USPS of the requirement to pre-pay retiree health care costs, which with DeJoy's urging it did with the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.
DeJoy attracted criticism and lawsuits from environmentalists and Democratic politicians when he decided to purchase 90% gasoline-powered delivery vehicles in 2022, which he justified in part by the agency's financial situation. After additional federal funding was provided by the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 and Inflation Reduction Act, DeJoy revised these plans twice; the final version orders 83% electric vehicles through 2028 and 100% electric thereafter.
DeJoy was born on June 20, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York City, and grew up in Islip, New York. He is the son of second-generation Italian immigrants to the United States. His father worked in trucking and was assaulted multiple times, prompting his son to seek a safer line of work. DeJoy earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
After graduating, DeJoy became a certified public accountant licensed to practice in the state of Florida.
DeJoy was CEO of High Point, North Carolina-based New Breed Logistics from 1983 to 2014.
New Breed was a United States Postal Service (USPS) contractor for over 25 years, providing shipping logistics support to USPS mail processing facilities; specifically, NBC News reported that the company was contracted to provide a pilot mail transport equipment service center in Greensboro, North Carolina. A 2001 audit by the USPS inspector general found that the USPS had given New Breed Logistics noncompetitive contracts of more than $300 million, starting in 1992. The audit concluded that the noncompetitive contracts cost taxpayers $53 million relative to competitively-bid contracts. The audit highlighted that the awarding of the noncompetitive contracts did not meet USPS requirements and that it potentially increased the USPS's costs and performance risks. Former Postal Service inspector general David Williams said that it was "puzzling" that the finding was not referred for investigation.
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Louis DeJoy
Louis DeJoy (born June 20, 1957) is an American businessman who served as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and resigned on March 24, 2025. Before being appointed, he was the founder and CEO of the logistics and freight company New Breed Logistics and was a major Republican Party donor and fundraiser for Donald Trump. DeJoy was the first postmaster general since 1992 without any previous experience in USPS, and the first postmaster general in U.S. history to come directly from the board of a privately owned competitor to the public–private partnership of the USPS entity. His companies still hold active service contracts with the USPS, generating controversy over conflict of interest.
DeJoy was criticized for his cost-reduction policies enacted after assuming office in June 2020, which included eliminating overtime, and banning late or additional trips to deliver mail. The Postal Service also continued responding to long-term declines in first class mail volume with ongoing decommissioning of hundreds of high-speed mail-sorting machines and removal of the lower-volume mail collection boxes from streets. These practices were also criticized as mail delivery became delayed. The changes took place during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, raising fears that the changes would interfere with voters who used mail-in voting to cast their ballots, possibly intentionally. Congressional committees and the USPS inspector general investigated. In August of that year, amid public pressure, DeJoy said that the changes would be suspended until after the election, and in October the USPS agreed to reverse all of them.
In March 2021, DeJoy issued a 10-year plan called "Delivering for America" to stabilize the finances of the Postal Service by slowing first class mail delivery, optimizing transportation networks, cutting post office hours, and raising prices. The plan assumed Congress would relieve the USPS of the requirement to pre-pay retiree health care costs, which with DeJoy's urging it did with the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022.
DeJoy attracted criticism and lawsuits from environmentalists and Democratic politicians when he decided to purchase 90% gasoline-powered delivery vehicles in 2022, which he justified in part by the agency's financial situation. After additional federal funding was provided by the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 and Inflation Reduction Act, DeJoy revised these plans twice; the final version orders 83% electric vehicles through 2028 and 100% electric thereafter.
DeJoy was born on June 20, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York City, and grew up in Islip, New York. He is the son of second-generation Italian immigrants to the United States. His father worked in trucking and was assaulted multiple times, prompting his son to seek a safer line of work. DeJoy earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
After graduating, DeJoy became a certified public accountant licensed to practice in the state of Florida.
DeJoy was CEO of High Point, North Carolina-based New Breed Logistics from 1983 to 2014.
New Breed was a United States Postal Service (USPS) contractor for over 25 years, providing shipping logistics support to USPS mail processing facilities; specifically, NBC News reported that the company was contracted to provide a pilot mail transport equipment service center in Greensboro, North Carolina. A 2001 audit by the USPS inspector general found that the USPS had given New Breed Logistics noncompetitive contracts of more than $300 million, starting in 1992. The audit concluded that the noncompetitive contracts cost taxpayers $53 million relative to competitively-bid contracts. The audit highlighted that the awarding of the noncompetitive contracts did not meet USPS requirements and that it potentially increased the USPS's costs and performance risks. Former Postal Service inspector general David Williams said that it was "puzzling" that the finding was not referred for investigation.
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