Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Even during this pandemic with most agencies down, we had not heard complaints from the Postal Service until Louis DeJoy…”

“Even during this pandemic with most agencies down, we had not heard complaints from the Postal Service until Louis DeJoy was appointed Postmaster General. On the contrary, the pandemic had not kept our mail from being faithfully delivered. Almost immediately after DeJoy assumed office, pandemonium broke out. For example, in Ward 8 of my district, there was no mail for 2 weeks. And the District and 46 States have been warned by the Postal Service itself that it cannot guarantee that all mail ballots will arrive in time to be counted. Mr. DeJoy did not tell the truth at the Senate hearing yesterday. We know that from a July 15 memorandum directing employees explicitly to leave mail behind and to significantly cut overtime. We know that from an August 7 Postal Service action that reassigned 23 top executives with decades of institutional knowledge of postal operations in order to centralize operations. We know and will bring out before this hearing is over today that the Post Office continues to be sabotaged.”