The government's Efficiency Bureau is partnering with the US Postal Service, which is a good thing. Last week, postmaster Louis DeJoy He told Congress He reached an agreement with Doge, eradicating inefficiency and assisting the service in addressing “big problems.” Most of them are financial. As an early cost reduction gesture, USPS is Reduce the labor force 10,000 people through a voluntary early retirement program.
Doge certainly cuts that work. USPS Lost It is expected to lose another $60-70 billion by 2030, with an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024. However, most of this spending is in vain and it is not essential to deploy services, recover and deliver them again to taxpayers and consumers through proper reform.
Small cuts combined with more important reforms are added. It's time for Doge to start trimming the fat.
One place to start is to buy an electric car for service. The USPS wants to replace most of the aging fleet of over 200,000 mail trucks. Nearly $10 billion For a fleet of approximately 100,000 vehicles, including 66,000 eV.
Return to gas
This agreement is a financial disaster. EV delivery is already available Schedule delayand according to Dejoy, taxpayers and consumers are Pay anywhere It's between $10,000 and $20,000 more EVs than its gas-powered counterparts.
2022, Parliament USPS was allocated to $3 billion Taxpayer dollars for EV purchases include $1.29 billion for the vehicle and $1.71 billion for the charging infrastructure.
Given this one-off grant and the investments of the postal service itself, switching to an all-gas fleet will save around $1 billion a year over the next decade. Luckily, Oshkosh appears to be open Renegotiation of the contract.
However, if Oshkosh does not play the ball, lawmakers may intervene. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Michael Cloud (R-Texas) introduced the “.Return to the sender's law“Recovering taxpayer money wasted on these EV purchases.
Saturday email delivery is another easy way to reduce costs. USPS currently provides emails Monday to Saturday There are also packages available on Sundays. Moving to a five-day delivery schedule will reduce costs and boost worker morale. The USPS itself proposed this change in 2013.Five-year business plan“After adjusting for inflation, we estimate a savings of around $2.6 billion today, which is about a third of the average annual losses for services in recent years.
Is USPS… TV?
Beyond these major cuts, USPS continues to waste money in inexplicable ways.
The service challenged television production and premiered a show called “.Dear Santa, series”2022. This wasn't even the first attempt on television. USPS also created the “Inspector.” A mediocre evaluation. The cost of these production remains unknown, but the Taxpayer Protection Alliance Foundation plans to require the Freedom of Information Act to clarify the figures.
TPAF also investigates USPS' suspicious and increasingly bleeding check speeds and money ordering operations. Light skin response to Op-Eds and Official Podcast.
Small cuts combined with more important reforms are added. Overall, USPS can save more $7 billion a year There are some common sense spending cuts. It's time for Doge to start trimming the fat.
