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  • So, an actual answer if you’re interested.

    No, the President does not have the power to remove him. When the Post Office was reformed into USPS in the 1970’s, the selection of Postmaster General is made by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service. These board members have 7 year terms, and are appointed by the President, with Senate approval.

    The Postmaster General has no fixed term, and serves until the Board decides otherwise.

    There are 9 members of the Board, and no more than 5 can be from the same party. The Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General are also voting members of the Board, though there are some things they can’t vote on.

    Removing requires an absolute majority - so even though a quorum is 6, there needs to be 5 votes to remove DeJoy.

    No member of the Board can serve more than 2 terms, and they can’t be removed without a gross violation - misconduct for example.

    So despite the spongebob meme reference reply near mine, no, Biden can’t just remove DeJoy.







  • Which is why dumb phones and feature phones aren’t common anymore, and the people choosing them are specifically choosing it to avoid being available via WhatsApp/Signal/Slack/Discord/Teams/whatever else.

    My FIL for example has a clamshell feature phone, because he doesn’t want to be reached except by phone or SMS. He doesn’t want to read email or get messages on his phone, he wants to restrict that to when he’s in front of his computer.

    So yes, you would not be able to use messaging clients on a dumb phone, that’s the idea behind their use today.