USPS Reaches Agreement With DOGE To Cut 10,000 Workers
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced an agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA) and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to implement a sweeping plan that will see the elimination of 10,000 USPS jobs and billions of dollars in budget cuts.The announcement, made in a letter to Congress, signals a significant step in DeJoy’s efforts to address the agency’s long-standing fiscal issues, which have resulted in near $100 billion in losses over the years.
DeJoy acknowledged that USPS operates under a “broken business model” and has been plagued by excessive regulation and mismanagement, specifically in areas such as retirement assets and workers’ compensation. The new agreement with DOGE is intended to identify and implement further efficiencies that could help pull the Postal Service out of its financial crisis.
The proposed cuts have ignited significant backlash from both lawmakers and labor unions. The plan to reduce 10,000 jobs through a voluntary early-retirement program is just the latest in a series of workforce reductions at the agency, which previously slashed 30,000 positions in 2021.
USPS reported a $9.5 billion net loss for fiscal 2024. The agency saw a $6.5 billion loss in FY 2023.
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7 comments:
Less people goofing off at the Postal Service means my packages and letters get to where they're going a lot quicker! Yay!
Had a letter delivered last week that took 10 days from Los Angeles. That seems excessive.
It takes a week (at times) to go from LWB to WPB.
The post office is so stupid and so incompetent anyway they have to be the worst business from the US government of any. They're always putting other people's mail in my mailbox constantly. And then my informed delivery from them never is right they don't even give me half of my mail that's showing up that's supposed to arrive each day the US government has a real problem with the mail service and they're completely incompetent how can they be putting other people's mail in my mailbox so frequently and then never deliver mail that belongs to me? They're horrible really awful incompetent business run by our government just goes to show you!
I had a reader inform me that the LWB post office downtown is not maintained and is filthy-- that the floors look lke they haven't been washed in a decade.
The US mail is so incompetent today so I just try to do everything electronically and have them send all my bills electronically and pay electronically so to not use the US mail because you can't count on it they don't deliver your mail or they put other people's mail in your box or they put your mail in somebody else's box they're just really messed up. I just can't rely or depend on them for anything anymore so why do we want to use them you pay so much to send something almost a dollar to send a letter nowadays and you don't even know if it'll get there or not it's horrible just not reliable anymore stopping using the post office they're awful!
Most of the postal workers are high all the time, they are on their phones drive fast and are not at all focused that is why there are so many mistakes!
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