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No Holiday DeJoy At USPS         #265                                                      By Hank Silverberg Has your mail been slow this week? It's not just the holiday rush. The United States Postal Service has brought in  just 10,000 seasonal workers this holiday season, a 64% reduction from the number of temporary workers used in 2022. And that is the second consecutive year that the temporary hires have been reduced. It's all part of the  10 year "austerity plan" being put into place by Postmaster General and Trump appointee Louis Dejoy, which is kicking in with a vengeance . In the last two years the agency has converted about 150,000 part-time jobs to full-time, which drastically cuts down overtime. But a post office Inspector General's report says the installation of machines to handle jobs people used to do has not met the targets expected, meaning the machines can't do the work as fast as people did.   Added to this, it may be the last Christmas rus

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