Posted on 03/14/2025 6:09:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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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They can barely get the mail delivered now or in the correct mailboxes...can’t wait until it gets worse.
USPS is a jobs program for “people of color”. My guess is that the layoffs won’t be “people of color”.
FYI.
They’ve consistently demonstrated that they cannot manage themselves as an independent entity. They cut 30,000 workers in 2021 and by all accounts costs have gone up and service (quality) has declined. Maybe re-organizing them under the Commerce Department wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Another horse and buggy institution that has outlasted its usefulness.
“They can barely get the mail delivered now or in the correct mailboxes.”
About 10 years ago I was expecting new license plates from the DMV that never came.
Eventually a homeowner on the complete other side of my 300 house neighborhood that the usps delivered them to in error was kind enough to drive over and drop them off.
Recently two cluster boxes on my street were left unlocked and wide open by whoever delivered the mail that day.
Can’t even work a lock......that’s a damn shame. SMH
“Another horse and buggy institution that has outlasted its usefulness”
I hope Elon plans on looking at AMTRAK at some point......what an absolute catastrophe that is.
Benjamin Franklin is striking out. Perhaps he did not understand human nature very well or how technology changes.
next is AMTRAK!!
So yeah, I think the postal service can easily be downsized and streamlined.
It was a perfectly good business model until Trump became unwilling to make up their operating losses from taxpayer funds. It's Trump's fault. Really. Oh and Musks fault. Burning some more Teslas will fix this.
The reason so many postal workers went “postal” was because Congress decided that even people who were essentially unemployable crazies deserved a good paying job. So, they intentionally hired people who, for very good reasons, were not employable elsewhere in the Post Office. To keep everyone “safe” from these crazies, they made all Post Offices into Gun Free Zones. (That’s because there’s an obvious disconnect between real life rational decisions and policy made around a shiny Congressional committee table.)
The supply of crazies has been greatly reduced by aging out the Vietnam cases. Presumably there won’t be any Post Office shootings as they’ve actually been reducing post office workers for decades on account of the cost and benefits of them were unsustainable in a declining income/budget world.
Do you mean that you have alternatives to the postal system? Perhaps you don’t have to pay to use alternatives?
I think that perhaps the Internet has been allowed to replace most usage of the postal system for rather nefarious reasons. The price of postal stamps is now outrageous and the service performs make-work delivering junk flyers at a reduced rate.
“the majority of the mail delivered by the postal service is junk mail”
And why aren’t the tree huggers up in arms about that? 🤔
This will be interesting.
The USPS today is a Union driven place.
They basically make the non union/new guys kill themselves in hopes of getting full time/permanent/Union position... then once they get their they are effectively “tenured” and they know it.
No, I am not saying all permanent postal workers are lazy, however there is a big contingent that do the bare minimum to the contract requirements, and have zero intention of doing anything more.
These are the people who need to be let go, but due to union rules, they aren’t the ones you can easily fire. There newbies are, who are the ones still busting butt trying to get in.
So, they can use early retirement offers to try to get rid of the deader weight, but they can’t easily fire based on merit, or more appropriately lack their of.
If they simply let all their newer employees go, because those are the ones they can cut easily, I don’t see the USPS getting any better.
Honestly, I wish they would simply enforce a damned dress code. I know, old fuddy duddy of mean, but a good bit, if not most, postal workers look like slobs these days. That was NEVER the case when I was growing up. They always looked professional.
By chance, I have known several good U.S.P.S. employees.
The USPS has become facebook. You aren’t the customer, you are the product.
In fact they sued and shut down a business that you could have receive your mail, it would scan the important stuff and email it to you, and toss all the junk mail.
The USPS shut them down, because it affected their business, because junk mail was their revenue stream.
I know good ones, I think most want to be good employees.. But like most union contract driven organizations... many come to realize hard work, attention to detail, etc, doesn’t get them anywhere, so it beats all that out of them over time.
When you get the same reward, or less than some guy putting in 1/2 the effort, folks get broken.
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