In The News
‘Like Somebody Turned Off A Switch’: Small Businesses Say USPS Delays Are Hitting Them Hard (From USA Today) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in USA Today’s story on the impact of Postal Service delivery delays on small businesses. The Postal Service has suffered long-term decline in the quality of its service, he said, issues that predate the tenure of P ...
The Postal Service Mess – And What Can Be Done To Fix It (From The Philadelphia Inquirer) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer’s September 5 story about Postal Service delays resulting from operational changes by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. “There’s tremendous dysfunction at the organization,” Steidler expla ...
Post Office Board Diversity Faces Same Scrutiny As Corporate America (From Bloomberg News) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in an August 24th article about the U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors. The board, which is all male, mostly white, and majority Republican, has come under new scrutiny as new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is ...
How Trump, Mnuchin And DeJoy Edged The Postal Service Into A Crisis (From The Washington Post) The Washington Post quoted Lexington Senior Fellow Paul Steidler in a story about recent changes at the Postal Service under new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Amid DeJoy’s efforts to cut costs at the organization, a political fight over mail-in ballo ...
Postal Service Board Lacks Experience — And Bodies (From Scripps Television) In a segment for Scripps Television stations, Lexington Senior Fellow Paul Steidler assured the public that the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors deserves its confidence. The controversies over vote-by-mail and new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s ...
Tracing Trump’s Postal Service Obsession — From ‘Loser’ To ‘Scam’ To ‘Rigged Election’ (From The Washington Post) Amid the national controversy over the Postal Service and mail-in voting, The Washington Post quoted Lexington Senior Fellow Paul Steidler on the organization’s long-running troubles. Steidler told the paper that previous presidents and Congress had ig ...
Trump Aides Exploring Executive Actions To Curb Voting By Mail (From POLITICO) August 8, 2020 On August 8, Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in a POLITICO story about mail-in voting and the president’s efforts to curb it. Steidler said the president cannot order the postmaster general to do anything because the Postal Service ...
Boeing’s Ridley Park Plant Receives $265M Contract From Pentagon For 9 Chinook Helicopters (From The Philadelphia Inquirer) (August 4, 2020) Lexington COO Loren Thompson was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s August 4 article on the new $265 million contract between the Pentagon and Boeing, which could mean an increase in future sales for the Ridley Park plant. Boeing an ...
President’s Executive Order On Nation’s Bulk-Power System Is Important Positive Step (From The Norfolk Daily News) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in an editorial from the Norfolk Daily News (Norfolk, NE) on the president’s recent executive order to protect the United States’ bulk-power system. Extensively referencing Steidler’s May 27 InsideSources op-ed, the ...
USPS Warns Staff Of Temporary Mail Delays As It Cuts ‘Soaring’ Delivery Costs (From Federal News Network) Lexington’s Paul Steidler was quoted in a Federal News Network article on a memo from the new Postmaster General directing Postal Service employees to focus on cutting the “soaring costs” of transportation. According to the memo, late and extra deliver ...