During a December 2024 hearing before the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Rich McCormick (R-GA) said that the USPS was so untrustworthy that businesses no longer use the government mail service to mail checks.
Almost every single business I know that wants to send a check out won’t use the U.S. Postal Service anymore. I won’t use the U.S. Postal Service anymore. That’s on your watch. The two major decisions I’ve seen you make, which is on the distribution centers and on employee rate hiring, have done nothing to mitigate this in real-time ways. I don’t understand why you give yourself an A Grade, as you just stated when it comes to the delivery we have.
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Your reputation is done. Whether you admit it or not, in the military, if I have a skipper who things are going bad for, they’re a good military officer. But you know what we do when things go wrong repeatedly? We relieve them. You know what you do when a CEO repeatedly fails in that business model falls apart? Nobody wants to use that business anymore, and it becomes non-profitable. You fire them. You know what we do in government when organizations fail over and over and over again and become unaccountable and are not going in the right direction.
As McCormick continued to criticize DeJoy, the postmaster general covered his ears and said, “You’re talking to yourself.”
The lawmaker mocked DeJoy by covering his own ears and stated, “I hope you got that on camera. This is the response that the postmaster just gave Congress. When he doesn’t like what he hears. Literally covered his ears and gave himself the grade of A.”
