Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman, will be the agency’s 75th postmaster general, as President Trump seeks to push the organization to raise rates for package delivery
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Postal Service’s governance board tapped a North Carolina businessman and Republican donor to be the next postmaster general, as President Trump seeks to push the organization to raise rates for package delivery.
Louis DeJoy, the chief executive of a consulting and project-management firm, will take over the Postal Service at a perilous moment. The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in plummeting mail volumes and the Postal Service recently predicted that the pandemic will add $22 billion to the agency’s...
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