USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers

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

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget, according to a letter sent to members of Congress on Thursday. He’ll do that working with the Department of Government Efficiency.

DOGE will assist with addressing “big problems” at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement also includes the General Services Administration in an effort to help the Postal Service identify and achieve “further efficiencies.”

[…] Critics of the agreement fear negative effects of the cuts will be felt across America. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, who was sent the letter, said turning over the Postal Service to DOGE would result in it being undermined and privatized.

[…] USPS currently employs about 640,000 workers tasked with making deliveries from inner cities to rural areas and even far-flung islands.

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