USPS Partners With Elon Musk’s DOGE Team For Reform, Plans To Cut 10K Jobs
The USPS Post Office is located on February 5th, 2025 near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
OAN Staff James Meyers 9:12am – Friday, March 14th, 2025
US Postmaster Louis DeJoy has announced to Congress that he has signed an agreement with Elon Musk's Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, is exempt from cutting DOGE-oriented federal employees.
In a letter to Congress, Dejoy acknowledged that the post office has a “broken business model that is very necessary and not financially sustainable without core changes.”
Breaking: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress today that he has signed a contract to work with Doge to reduce employment and spending.
USPS plans to eliminate 10,000 jobs over the next 30 days through its “voluntary early retirement” program. pic.twitter.com/yej5xdsdco
“It's a tough job to fix a broken organization that experienced nearly $100 billion in losses without bankruptcy proceedings and was predicted to lose another $200 billion,” writes Dejoy. “It is even more difficult to use such a broken business model to correct large, important, cherished, misunderstood, legal and overly regulated organizations as a US postal service.”
Doge Department will help USPS address “big problems” at its $78 billion annual agency. The new agreement aims to help postal services identify and achieve “more efficiency.”
The independent agency listed several issues, including mismanagement of the agency's retirement assets and workers' compensation programs, as well as several regulatory requirements described as “limiting normal business practices.”
“This is an effort that is in line with our efforts. There's a lot more to do while we're accomplishing a lot,” writes Dejoy.
However, opposition fears that the agreement will have a negative impact and reductions will be felt across the country. The letter was sent to President Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), who said that handing over the post office to Doge would damage it and would be privatized.
“The only bad thing for the post office than Dejoy's 'Delevering for America' plan is to hand over the service to Elon Musk and Doge.
He added: “This surrender has devastating consequences for all Americans, especially those hard to reach in rural areas. Reliable mail delivery cannot be booked exclusively for MAGA supporters and Tesla owners.”
President Brian L. Renflo of the National Association of Letter Letter Careers said in a statement that he was open to anyone's help in dealing with some of the agency's biggest issues, but was firmly in the move to privatize postal services.
“The common sense solution is what the postal service needs and not a privatization effort that threatens the work of 640,000 postal workers, but 7.9 million jobs are tied to our work, and all Americans are dependent on us every day,” he said.
Currently, USPS employs approximately 640,000 employees tasked with making delivery, from internal urban to rural areas.
Meanwhile, the independent agency plans to cut 10,000 workers over the next 30 days through a voluntary early retirement program announced in January.
The agency previously announced plans to reduce operating expenses at least $3.5 billion a year. In 2021, the agency cut 30,000 workers.
As the agency continues to struggle financially, it has fought calls from President Donald Trump and others to reduce top-class mail.
Last month, Trump said USPS could be under the control of the Commerce Department, a government takeover.
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