USPS signs agreement with DOGE, agrees to cut 10,000 workers: ‘Broken business model’

[mystery-ak]

USPS signs agreement with DOGE, agrees to cut 10,000 workers: ‘Broken business model’
The service plans to cut 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through a voluntary early-retirement program
 By Bradford Betz Fox News
Published March 14, 2025 4:10am EDT

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy informed members of Congress on Thursday he has signed an agreement with the General Services Administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget.

In a letter to Congress, DeJoy lamented that the Postal Service has a "broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and core change."

"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," DeJoy wrote. "Fixing a heavily legislated and overly regulated organization as massive, important, cherished, misunderstood and debated as the United States Postal Service, with such a broken business model, is even more difficult."

DOGE will assist USPS with addressing "big problems" at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement aims to help the Postal Service identify and achieve "further efficiencies."

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[rustynail]

Not without the expressed written consent of a Federal Judge.

[The_Reader_David]

It is odd that, the Post Offfice, the agency that provides the one Constitutionally mandated Federal service, is expected to be run like a business, rather than be subsidized by tax dollars, while all manner of other beneficial services, health care for the poor, weather forecasting, air-traffic control, Federal highways (which were originally built on the plea they were Constitutional because they were post-roads used to provide mail service),... many of which are of dubious constitutionallity are things the taxpayers are expected to fund.

[DefiantMassRINO]

By such logic, Congress should be made to lay off staffers because of its 'Broken Business Model'. 

When's the last time they passed a balanced budget by October 1st?