Postal Service is run by a board of members who are recommended by the president and voted into place by Congress.
Board members serve 7 years terms
The board chooses a Postmaster General and Deputy, who have unlimited terms and are also voting members on the board. This would be the guy who we are all angry at
The board must be comprised of a split of Democrats and Republicans (can have one more Democrat than Republican for example) The board cannot have more than 5 members from the same political party
Some more political stuff: Laws by Congress can set directives for the board. Since our Congress has been split for all of Biden’s presidency, desire stuff hasn’t gotten done.
A lame duck Congress pre-Obama attached stamp prices to inflation, forced USPS to pre fund worker wages and benefits, shortened delivery to six days. Obama made no attempt to fix this in the short time he had a same party Congress.
Biden did sign a law that removed the “pre financing” of postal worker retirement funds, barred the board from lowering delivery service days below 6, and introduced mandatory service quality reporting to President and Congress, which is why we’re getting this information. However, this had to be a bipartisan bill in order to pass, so it also did things to help Republicans.
Biden has replaced outgoing board members with people who outwardly seemed interested in improving the service and were strong vote by mail advocates.
Biden DID nominate a Republican, but remember it has to remain balanced. *edit – There are 3 Democrats on the board already. All three nominated by Biden. That means the two remaining spots can be Democrats. He could have chosen an independent instead of a Republican. However, the Republican he chose also worked with Amtrak under Obama.
There are two open seats Biden is dragging his feet on, maybe to extend their limits well into the next presidencies?
The current chairman of the board ends his term this December.
Big opinion: Stop blaming presidents for stuff. Vote for Congress is way more important.
edit: less bias (I had blamed Republicans for stuff that Democrats had also voted yes) & spelling correction edit again: corrections by @SeaJ