Holiday mail that year was a nightmare, with some packages not reaching their destination for weeks. He had mailboxes removed from some neighborhoods. Soon after he took office, DeJoy imposed cost-cutting measures that slowed the mail dramatically and made some people wary of mailing in election ballots. But DeJoy has been making things worse since he became postmaster general in June 2020. The USPS is a government service, not a money-making enterprise, but such massive losses are not sustainable. In 2019, the USPS handled about a third less mail than in 2006 in 2020, it lost $9.2 billion. Since 2006, the postal service has been handling less mail year after year, and it’s been losing more and more money.
