Louis DeJoy

Louis DeJoy is the 75th Postmaster General of the United States and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Postal Service. He was appointed by the organization’s Board of Governors and began his tenure in June 2020. In his role as Postmaster General, DeJoy also serves as a member of the Board of Governors.

DeJoy is currently leading one of the largest organizational transformations in the United States. Based on his pragmatic, 10-year Delivering for America plan, nearly every operation and function of the Postal Service is being improved, ensuring that it can continue to fulfill its public service mission with financial strength well into the future.

In his four-year tenure, DeJoy has led the Postal Service to recover from unprecedented financial, structural, operational and cultural challenges. He has driven significant progress to put the Postal Service on a positive trajectory to retain its stature as a cherished American institution and also become a more efficient, high-performing logistics and delivery enterprise.

Through Delivering for America strategies and initiatives, he has overseen a decrease in projected losses from $160 billion to $80 billion over 10 years. By working with Congress to secure enactment of the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022, he achieved an expense reduction of $48 billion. In February 2024, he launched the Postal Service’s Environmental Sustainability Plan, including 2030 carbon emission reduction targets. His spearheading of the purchase of 106,480 new vehicles — 66,230 of which will be electric — earned the Postal Service a 2024 Presidential Federal Sustainability Award for “Electrifying the Largest Federal Fleet.”

During the coronavirus pandemic, the White House trusted USPS under DeJoy’s leadership to successfully deliver more than 885 million COVID-19 test kits to more 90 million American households, in an average of 1.2 days from shipment to delivery.

Before joining the Postal Service, DeJoy spent more than 35 years building and leading a nationwide logistics company.

As chairman and chief executive officer of New Breed Logistics, DeJoy spent decades in collaboration with the Postal Service, as well as other federal agencies and major corporations, to provide supply chain logistics, program management and transportation support. New Breed Logistics was a contractor to the Postal Service for more than 25 years, supplying logistics support for multiple processing facilities. The company received Quality Supplier Awards from the Postal Service on four separate occasions.

In 2014, New Breed merged with XPO Logistics, with DeJoy serving as chief executive officer of XPO Logistics’ supply chain business in the Americas before his retirement in December 2015. He then joined the company’s board of directors, where he served until 2018.

DeJoy is a member of the board of trustees at Elon University in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Stetson University in Florida.

Latest update: December 2024