USPS agrees to work with Doge to reform, intending to reduce 10,000 workers

WASHINGTON – General Postmaster Louis Dejoy intends to reduce 10,000 workers and billions of US postal service budget and will do that by working with Elon Musk The Department of Efficiency of the Government, according to a letter sent to the members of the Congress on Thursday.

Doge will help USPS With the approach of “Great Problems” at the Agency of $ 78 billion a year, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to remain on the surface. The agreement also includes the Administration of General Services in the effort to help the postal service to identify and obtain “additional efficiency”.

USPS listed such problems As the wrong management of the program for the compensation of the Agency’s retirement and compensation assets, as well as a series of regulatory requirements that the letter described as “the restriction of normal business practice”.

“This is an effort aligned with our efforts, because, while we have achieved a lot, there is a lot to do,” said Dejoy.

The critics of the agreement are afraid that the negative effects of the discounts will be felt throughout America. US democratic representative Gerald Connolly from Virginia, who was sent the letter, said that the return of the postal service to Doge will result in undermining and privatization.

“This capitulation will have catastrophic consequences for all Americans – especially for those in rural areas and hard to reach – which are based on the postal service every day to deliver mail, medicines, ballots and more,” he said in a statement.

Currently, USPS employs approximately 640,000 workers in charge of deliveries from interior cities in rural areas and even distant islands.

The service intends to reduce 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early retirement program, according to the letter.

Neither USPS nor Trump’s administration immediately responded to the E -Associated Press emails requesting comments.

The agency previously announced the plans to reduce its operating costs by over $ 3.5 billion annually. And this is not the first time that thousands of employees were cut. In 2021, the agency reduced 30,000 workers.

Since the service that worked as an independent entity of 1970 has endeavored to balance books with the decline of first-class e-mail, it has Fought calls From President Donald Trump and others to be privatized. Last month, Trump said he could put USPS under the control of the trade department in what would be a takeover of the executive branch.

The president of the National Association of Letters Carriers, Brian L. Renfroe, said in a statement in response to Thursday that he welcomes anyone to address some of the biggest problems, but was firm against any movement to privatize the postal service.

“The good solutions are what it needs the postal service, not the privatization efforts that will threaten 640,000 jobs of the postal employees, 7.9 million jobs related to our work, and the universal service that each American is based daily,” he said.

Dejoy, a Republican donor who owned a logistics business, was appointed to run USPS during Trump’s first term in 2020. Faced repeated challenges during his term, including the Covid-19 Pandemia Bulletins voting by mail and Efforts for stem loss by cost and service reductions.