USPS Working With DOGE to Fix ‘Broken Business Model’
DeJoy said the USPS plans to reduce its workforce by “10,000 people in the next 30 days through a Voluntary Early Retirement program.”
Outgoing U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress the USPS will work with DOGE to fix its “broken business model.”
“Last night I signed an agreement with the General Services Administration [GSA] and DOGE representatives to assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies,” wrote DeJoy. “This is an effort aligned with our efforts, as while we have accomplished a great deal, there is much more to be done.”
DeJoy said the USPS plans to reduce its workforce by “10,000 people in the next 30 days through a Voluntary Early Retirement program.”
DeJoy also listed some of the supposed accomplishments that happened since he took over.
You know what I didn’t see in the letter? The USPS wanting to spend $10 billion for electric vehicles and infrastructure. That announcement came out in 2022.
In August 2022, Congress gave USPS $3 billion in that stupid Inflation Reduction Act for electric vehicles.
The final deal came to $77,692 per vehicle.
Well, the contractor in charge of providing 60,000 vehicles is way behind schedule.
The USPS only received 100 electric vehicles by the end of 2024.
However, this is the same guy who covered his ears during a Congressional hearing as House Republicans criticized his tenure.
Yeah, DeJoy gave himself an A as Rep. Rick McCormick (R-GA) pointed out that the USPS’s reputation went down during his time.
DeJoy kept telling Congress they had to address some issues.
The postmaster listed these issues in his letter, saying they are “burdensome regulatory requirements restricting normal business practice.”
“The Postal Regulatory Commission is an unnecessary agency that has inflicted over $50 billion in damage to the Postal Service by administering defective pricing models and decades old bureaucratic processes that encumber the Postal Services,” explained DeJoy.
DeJoy accused the commission of having “an anachronistic view” of how the USPS currently works.”
DONATE
Donations tax deductible
to the full extent allowed by law.
Comments
well, this should be interesting….
they know they shouldnt even exist
wrong from the start
wrong for right now
private industries can do the job and better
Private industry doesn’t want it and 60 million people shouldn’t be forced into urban areas just so they can get basic services.
According to a recent WSJ article, the United States Post office delivers about 50% of all of Amazon’s products. That’s a LOT of deliveries that most people consider essential.
That’s because USPS gave Amazon a discount on the deliveries, while committing fraud by taking packages for delivery and then not delivering. USPS does not deliver in my town.
I live in the countryside. Most Amazon is delivered by USPS, some by UPS.
“10,000 people in the next 30 days through a Voluntary Early Retirement program.”
That’s a good start. Can we do that every month?
The USPS is as obsolete as hard wired telephones in your home. Once upon a time they were vital but today that simply are not. My mailbox is filled with 99.99% junk mail that gets immediately thrown out.
never needed to be run by the government
the service was needed and of course would have had the private industry doing the job and of course any failures would lead to closures etc
instead decadessssss of tax money sent to the blackpit
Perhaps cut back to twice a week delivery.
Every time I hear about another agency establishing a “Voluntary Early Retirement program,” I wonder if we are being gulled into taking government workers who get paid for doing nothing, and converting them into retirees who get a permanent government pension for not even having to PRETEND to work.
Yes, of course you’re right. However retiree expenses come from a different pocket and currently that’s not from the General Fund. The USPS funds their own retirement.
It’ll take Congressional action but the Post Office can be saved
“In 2006, Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation.
If the costs of this retiree health care mandate were removed from the USPS financial statements, the Post Office would have reported operating profits in each of the last six years. This extraordinary mandate created a financial “crisis” that has been used to justify harmful service cuts and even calls for postal privatization.
https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis-and-how-to-fix-it/
My personal belief is that the USPS should NOT be privatized and that a certain amount of government support should be given to protect it.
Frankly although I love the digital age, when it’s really important I want a piece of paper documentation. Digital documents are too subject to loss or manipulation. I don’t want my car title or mortgage pay-off documents sent by email.
I absolutely love it when people who live in cities or metropolitan areas yammer about how the post office is unnecessary. People who would be aghast at getting mud on their cars driving down a dirt road to their house. People who don’t live 4 hours away from the nearest hospital. I’ll make y’all a deal… we can get rid of the post office, which is constitutionally authorized, AFTER we get rid of every single department and program that isn’t explicitly authorized in the constitution.
Kinda wondering what being four hours away from a hospital has to do with an obsolete government service but I just thought I’d point out that I’m 100% on board with a constitutional amendment to abolish the postal service but not before you have a chance to order a scrub brush and some car wash for your truck. Irony is that UPS (which I am sure services your particular part of the wilderness) will get it to you faster and intact.
(BTW, I’m second to no one in my ability to muddy a pickup truck, thank you very much.)
Peter you have seized a tree in a willful attempt to ignore the forest. The “4 hours to the hospital” was being used as a metaphor for living way the hell out in the boonies The mud-less pickups are a colorful way of saying that many urbanites don’t understand the realities of living in rural America.
Worse, you damn well know that.
Whether you live in midtown Manhattan or out in the middle of Wyoming the USPS hasn’t been in the black since 2007 and lost $7 billion last year alone. If it were a public enterprise it would have gone the way of Sears and Kodak a generation ago. It’s long past time to put it out of our misery. Nothing that the USPS does can’t be *easily* replicated (if necessary) by UPS, etc. I cannot remember the last time I got an actual letter in the mail. It’s 2025. Stop k1ll1ng trees to make junk mail!
I live in the countryside and get essential letters delivered here. The junk mail is a bit like the drug ads on TV. The one helps pay the USPS bills, and the other keeps cable and satellite TV in business.
“Either a little snow or rain or heat, not to mention gloom of night, stops mail carriers dead in their tracks and keeps them from completion of their appointed rounds.”
Frankly at this point I would pay them to STOP cramming my box with 99% junk mail that nobody cares.
Seriously, I don’t even understand junk mail at this point.
There can’t possibly be people that actually consume and buy stuff based on idiotic junk mail, right?
About as many as pay attention to radio or tv ads. Those are so many and so frequent that none really garner any attention.
In theory you can go down to the local Post Office and request to end delivery of ‘junk mail’.
Junk mail helps keep USPS in business.
The post office should offer a service that sorts your mail and delivers the important stuff on one day and all of the junk on another day.
The postman in “Lucifer’s Hammer” did that. It was junk mail day when the Hammer struck, which both saved his life and made the next week painful as he had to carry all the undelivered junk to the recipients without his truck.
The mailman from Cheers comes to mind…
Or Newman…
Newman
The Post Office is an obsolete 30’s-style WPA make-work program, doling out largesse from the taxpayers to a greedy, lazy entitled batch of affirmative action sponges. And this guy is the worst. Trying to keep his cushy gravy train going. You can smell the desperation through your phone.
How about delivering mail 3 times a week. Either Mon. We’d. Fri. Or Tue. Thu. Sat. There is very little waiting an extra day would hurt.
I have long thought that the post office should have raised stamps to $1 long ago. Now they have even warned that checks should not be mailed. If it is not safe to send a check thru the mail, then of what use is it?
There used to be one truck that drove around and delivered bags to those non-descript green boxes. Now each carrier has his own minivan. The word Chrysler mean anything here? At any one time there will be 3 minivans in my neighborhood. Do these guys have routes that are like 2 miles long or what?
Delivering the mail is a constitutional obligation of the federal government, unlike most of what goes on in D.C. and in general the USPS does do a good job.
I ship hundreds of packages a year, mostly via the USPS.
Of course the USPS needs DOGE level efficiencies, I sometimes see parcels getting shuttled back and forth between regional distribution centers, some of them on the other side of the country, and I think the USPS has lost one package out of more than 500, but then UPS and FedEx have their own problems.
For a small parcel, there isn’t a better shipping deal than the USPS and if you need a document or a small package delivered overnight, the USPS is significantly cheaper than the commercial carriers.
Let’s improve the USPS but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Leave a Comment