Newsmax: U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address “big problems.”
USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal employee reductions. DeJoy told Congress in a letter seen by Reuters that USPS plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers in the next month through a voluntary early retirement program first announced in January. The Post Office has cut 30,000 jobs since 2021.
DeJoy said the agreement with DOGE and the General Services Administration will allow the government reform team to “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies. … The DOGE team was gracious enough to ask for big problems they can help us with.” more here
And the recommended changes from DOGE to DeJoy got lost in the mail.
The solution is simple. ABOLISH the government-protected First Class Mail MONOPOLY and allow anyone and everyone to deliver whatever envelope or package they wish anywhere in the nation. Prices will drop, quality will improve, and the albatross of the USPS will finally be off the backs of the hapless taxpayers.
The root of the problem here is once again, the deep state libtards. They’ve been using the USPS budget for ever as a slush fund to finance all kinds of weird bull shit. And as an end result the USPS as become the home for misfit brains. And the answer is yes. Privatize it. Look at the amazing delivery system Amazon has set up. Give it to them.
PS, There’s not one branch or department of the government that the private sector couldn’t run 5 times more efficiently. I know I’m preaching to the choir here. We ship multiple Gov contracts weekly and It.s a rare occasion that we don’t need to call the originator to get the damn contract straightened out. It’s freaking amazing.
nuke from orbit. dindu-run shitholes are beyond repair, like dindu-run gubmint anywhere.
Anon – government in general is a plague on civilization. Doesn’t matter who runs it. Sure, the dindus only make things worse, but there are NO WHITE-run governments that are any better (in terms that matter).
Bad_Brad – Sorry to be argumentative, but a GOVERNMENT-PROTECTED MONOPOLY should NEVER exist. I have no issues with Amazon COMPETING for mail delivery services. Hell, they go or drive past virtually every address in America every day as it is…but DO NOT SIMPLY HAND THEM THE MONOPOLY. Abolish the monopoly first and see who succeeds. And by the way, Amazon has been benefitting from the taxpayer-subsidized lower cost shipping services of the USPS for way too long already.
Strange I have to check my mail box 2-3 times a day because the mail is hit and miss during the day, The truck often drops off mail and comes by later with more mail because?? Efficiency??
At least two days per week our carrier just zooms down the street. If someone has a flag up they pick up the outgoing mail but don’t leave anything. Maybe they were late for work or hung over and just didn’t feel like sorting anything that day.
And it takes 3 weeks to send a letter to an address in my town. Next day air is not as it will arrive within a week.
Somebody should go down to the PO with a cattle prod and see if they can’t be convinced to deliver the friggin’ mail on time.
I am Canadian and we have an equally as bad Postal System. I discovered about 6 months ago that over 30 years ago, that both Germany and Holland privatized their systems and over 20 years ago, Great Britain did the same. No more postal strikes and the mail is delivered on time.
MrLiberty
I was just using Amazon as a model of efficiency. My thoughts are the USPS started off as letter carriers. Which I question if we actually need anymore. I receive all my important correspondence electronically. Business and personal. What I get in the mail is mass mailing advertisements which I could do with out. Think of the ecological impact. So that leaves USPS competing with Fed ex and UPS. We ship Military contracts weekly. Contractually we are required to ship Fed Ex, preferred, or UPS. Guess who we are prohibited from using? That’s right, USPS. It’s like the government doesn’t trust the government or something. We don’t need them, shut them down.