USPS Postmaster General Retires

Postmaster General DeJoy Steps Down Amid Push for Postal Service Reforms

Deputy Postmaster General Doug Tulino will temporarily assume the position

The Postal Service reported a $9.5 billion net loss for fiscal year 2024, up from the $6.5 billion loss reported in 2023.

White House advisor Elon Musk has called for its privatization, and President Donald Trump has suggested it could be moved under the Department of Commerce. But all three men appeared to agree that immediate change was needed.

“It has long been known that the Postal Service has a broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and fundamental core change,” DeJoy said in a March 13 letter to Congress. “Fixing a broken organization that had experienced close to $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion, without a bankruptcy proceeding, is a daunting task.”

10,000 employees were set to start voluntary early retirement and that his department had cut 50 million labor hours, resulting in $2.5 billion in savings.

He also asked DOGE to look into the mismanagement of the department’s Workers’ Compensation Program, which he said resulted in $400 million a year in “excessive charges,” and the Postal Regulatory Commission, which he called an “unnecessary agency that has inflicted over $50 billion in damages” to his department.

Initially DeJoy was to retire in February but waited to implement some crucial efficiency changes working with DOGE.

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The elephant in the room will be the APWU.