A former senior Obama administration official has been elected chairman of the US Postal Service Board.
Ron Bloom, a former Democrat President Trump
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“It will require both ourselves and stakeholders to unite, to face our challenges openly, to make the necessary choices and to do what is right for this great organization and our country,” he said in a statement. .
Bloom was previously under the leadership of former President Obama as a senior adviser on manufacturing policy. He will succeed Robert Duncan, a Republican who served as chairman of the postal council since September 2018 and will continue as governor of the council.
Roman Martinez IV, another member of the Republican council, was elected vice president.
President Biden
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There are currently three vacancies on the nine-person committee. The American Postal Workers’ Union has called on Biden to fill vacancies with Democrats, giving the party a simple majority.
“It should become a 5 to 4 majority election of the Democratic Party,” Union President Mark Dimondstein told NPR.
Bloom said Tuesday it will work with the agency’s governors and director general. Louis DeJoy
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At Tuesday’s meeting, DeJoy allegedly apologized for the delays in postal services experienced by many Americans in the past year, which occurred both amid the COVID-19 pandemic and DeJoy’s own efforts to introduce operational changes to the agency before the November elections.
“Too many Americans have been waiting for weeks for major mail and parcel deliveries. This is unacceptable and I apologize to those customers who felt the impact of our delays, “said DeJoy, according to AP.
Representative. Bill Pascrell
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Hill contacted the White House for comments on future requests for action on the postal services board.