The first year of Joe Biden’s presidency appears likely to end with Postmaster Louis DeJoy, Trump’s pick to dismantle the nation’s longest-serving institution, inexplicably still in office. Biden has had a lot do to and many messes to clean up, but this one is right at the top and should have been dealt with already. The problem is, he can’t directly fire DeJoy. The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has to do that, and the chair of that board, Ron Bloom, happens to be a big DeJoy booster. Why that’s the case for Bloom, who is a Democrat, is not really known, but there’s certainly a whiff of corruption  behind it. That can end early next month because Bloom’s term is going to expire on Dec. 8. The Trump appointee was named to serve out the remainder of a seven-year term, left vacant (as most of them were, during the Obama administration) for Trump to fill. That term officially ended one year ago, but he’s been in a one-year holdover term where he has pushed DeJoy’s plan of trying to completely privatize the mail. He has experience at that from his previous employment at investment banking giant Lazard, which made great profits from investing in the privatization of England’s Royal Mail system. So he’s the man to help DeJoy on this job. Read more