The more things change at the U.S. Postal Service, the more that they stay the same, unfortunately. The volume of mail moving through the system continues to drop, yet the size of the workforce, thanks to a bad decision by former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to add full-time employees, has ballooned.

During his tenure, DeJoy never seemed to grasp the fundamental concept that more people delivering less mail won’t make the postal service profitable. Nonetheless, it’s a program he pursued through his much-maligned and now-discredited Delivering for America plan. ×

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