The American post master Louis Dejoy informed Congress members On Thursday, he signed an agreement with the General Services Administration and the Elon Musk Government Ministry to cut the postal services budget.
The postal service moved in January to reduce 10,000 jobs in an early retirement offer to eligible workers.
In a letter to the congress, Dejoy deplored that the postal service has a “broken business model which was not financially sustainable without the change in a critical and basic way”.
“The repair of a broken organization which had suffered nearly $ 100 billion in losses and which was to lose an additional $ 200 billion, without bankruptcy procedure, is an intimidating task,” wrote Dejoy. “Setting a strongly legislated and too regulated organization as massive, important, darling, misunderstood and debated as the postal service of the United States, with such a broken business model, is even more difficult.”
DOGE will help USPS solve “big problems” in the agency of $ 78 billion a year, which has sometimes had trouble in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement aims to help the postal service to identify and carry out “other efficiency”.
The post owner, Louis Dejoy, testifies before a hearing of the Surveillance and Reform Committee of the Chamber on postal service on Capitol Hill, Monday, August 24, 2020, in Washington. (Tom Brenner / Pool via AP)
The USPS has listed questions such as mismanagement of retirement assets and the agency workers’ compensation program, as well as a range of regulatory requirements that the letter describes as “restricting normal commercial practice”.
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“This is an effort aligned with our efforts, because even if we have made a lot, there is much more to do,” wrote Dejoy.
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Critics of the agreement fear the negative effects of the cuts will be felt across America. The United States Democrat representative Gerald Connolly, from Virginie, who was sent the letter, said that the reversal of the postal service to Dogi would result in his compromise and privatized.
The member of the ranking rank Gerald Connolly, D-VA., Makes opening remarks during an audience for the surveillance of the house and the government reform committee on the policies of the cities of the sanctuary at the American Capitol on March 5, 2025, in Washington, DC, DC, (Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)
“The only thing worse for the postal service that the plan ‘to deliver for America’ ‘from Dejoy, is to put the service to Elon Musk and Doge to put it in soper, privatize it, then take advantage of the loss of the Americans,” said Connolly in a press release.
He added: “This capitulation will have catastrophic consequences for all Americans – in particular those of rural areas and difficult to reach – which are based every day on postal service to deliver mail, medicines, ballots and more. Reliable mail delivery cannot be reserved for supporters Maga and Tesla owners. “”
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The National Association of Transporters of Letters The President Brian L. Renfroe declared in a press release in response to the letter on Thursday according to which it welcomes anyone to solve some of the biggest problems in the agency, but firmly against any decision to privatize the postal service.
“Common sense solutions are what the postal service needs, and not privatization efforts that will threaten 640,000 postal jobs, 7.9 million jobs related to our work and universal service on each American is based daily,” he said.
The USPS currently employs around 640,000 workers responsible for delivering deliveries, city centers to rural areas and even distant islands.
Elon Musk met members of the Caucus of the Senate Doge in the White House. (Getty Images)
The service plans to reduce 10,000 employees over the next 30 days thanks to a voluntary early retirement program announced in January, according to the letter.
The agency had previously announced its intention to reduce its operating costs by more than $ 3.5 billion per year. And this is not the first time that thousands of employees have been cut. In 2021, the agency reduced 30,000 workers.
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Like the service, which has been operating as an independent entity since 1970, has trouble balancing books with the decline of first -class mail, he fought President Donald Trump and others that he is privatized.
Last month, Trump said he could put USPS under the Ministry of Commerce in what would be a takeover of executive branches.
Jessica Sonkin of Fox News Digital and the Associated Press contributed to this report.