USPS Board of Governors Appoints Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General — Trump Megadonor with No Postal Experience Takes Control Ahead of Election

The USPS Board of Governors, appointed by President Trump, announces the appointment of Louis DeJoy as the 75th Postmaster General, effective June 15, 2020. DeJoy is a major Republican donor who raised over $10 million for the Trump campaign and has no prior experience in the Postal Service — the first postmaster general since 1992 without it. He also maintains financial interests in companies with active USPS contracts worth $30-70 million, creating an unprecedented conflict of interest. The appointment comes as the COVID-19 pandemic drives a historic surge in mail-in voting, with projected 80 million absentee ballots for the November election. Within weeks of taking office, DeJoy implements sweeping operational changes that dramatically slow mail delivery: banning overtime, eliminating late/extra delivery trips, reassigning 23 senior executives, and beginning the dismantling of 671 high-speed mail sorting machines across 49 states — 72% of which are located in counties won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Postal Service also removes hundreds of mail collection boxes. These actions spark widespread accusations that DeJoy is deliberately sabotaging the Postal Service to suppress mail-in voting in a presidential election.