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Trump Names Greensboro Businessman Postmaster General

Greensboro businessman Louis DeJoy will take over as U.S. Postmaster General on June 15th. (photo courtesy of Charlotte Host Committee For The 2020 RNC)

President Trump has named a Greensboro businessman Louis DeJoy as the head of the U.S. Postal Service. 

DeJoy is a close ally of the president, who has called for major changes in how the Postal Service conducts business. DeJoy is a major donor to GOP causes and is currently in charge of fundraising for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte.

The Washington Post reports that Trump's Treasury Department is currently negotiating with the Postal Service over a $10 billion line of credit approved as part of recent coronavirus relief legislation.

The president has said he wants the post office to raise fees for delivering packages for customers such as Amazon in exchange for access to that line of credit.

DeJoy will be the first postmaster general in two decades who comes from outside the agency's ranks. He'll take the helm of the Postal Service in mid-June.

DeJoy's wife, Aldona Wos, currently serves as the vice-chair of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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