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Postmaster Louis DeJoy has made a very powerful enemy: the U.S. Congress. Well, the Democrats who control the House, anyway. A group of House Democrats has introduced the “Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act.” Yes, the DEJOY Act, which is a crime against legislative nomenclature. But the lawmakers are serious, intent on blocking DeJoy from implementing the service changes he intends, including slowing delivery of first-class mail to as long as five days.

“This is the best way to kill your business,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Illinois Democrat and lead sponsor of the bill, said. “To basically say to your customers, ‘We’re not going to meet your expectations. You’re going to meet our service realities, regardless of what ends up happening.’” Krishnamoorthi told The Washington Post that this “particular change, going from 100 percent of first-class mail being delivered one to three days to only 70 percent, would be a nonstarter, in my opinion, with the American people.”

DeJoy’s response to Congress in a hearing before he released his plan doomed the reception of it. While DeJoy wasn’t quite as obnoxious and insulting to members as in previous outings, he still angered many of them. DeJoy actually said “Does it make a difference if it’s an extra day to get a letter?” as if people weren’t relying on the mail to get their prescriptions, to pay their bills, to receive checks. Then he had the chutzpah to say, “I would give myself an ‘A’ for bringing strategy and the planning and effort to here.”

It’s not just Congress that is set against DeJoy. Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro threatened legal action if DeJoy’s changes “illegally come at the expense of those who rely on the mail for everything from paychecks to medications.” The Postal Service, he reminds us, is a public service and “Changes to its universal service guarantee must go through a process that is designed to protect the public interest.” Shapiro’s office told the Post that “it was encouraged that DeJoy recognizes the legal obligations to secure limited regulatory approvals, but said it remained concerned about timely mail delivery.” …