The USPS chief warns that post offices could disappear, details the ten cuts

The head of the United States Postal Service is looking for the government efficiency department led by Elon Musk, or Dux, to help with cost reduction and the renewal of the mail service.

In a letter to CongressCorreos Louis General teacher said that Dege is helping when the agency enters a “historical level of transformative change.”

The “specific initiatives” led by USPS and Doge are “designed to improve general operations, improve products and drastically reduce cost and cultivation income,” Dejy wrote. Problems include USPS retirement plans, workers compensation costs, regulatory requirements, infrastructure challenges and the fight against counterfeit frank.

From a special note for legislators were the comments of LETy related to USPS facilities and the possibility of future closures.

Litay said there will be difficulties in renewing leases in almost 31,000 post office facilities throughout the country due to the “property consolidation, urban development and general increases in rental rates when decades of decades expire and where the owners are very aware of the political difficulties (faced) when they move or consolidate a retail location.”

More than half of the current locations of the Post Office cover their cost of operations, said Dejy.

“Future lease renovations are even more difficult to support financially, he added.

LEPY is advancing with some planned cuts, including the elimination of 10,000 jobs in the next 30 days through voluntary early retirement, AP reported. USPS currently uses about 640,000 workers.

It is the second massive reduction in force in the last five years. In 2021, USPS cut 30,000 workers.

The service plans to reduce to 10,000 employees in the next 30 days through an early retirement program, according to the letter. The USPS announced the plan during the last days of the Biden administration in January, but at that time it did not include the number of workers expected to leave.

Neither the USPS nor the Trump administration immediately responded to the Electronic Associated Press emails requesting comments.

The agency previously announced plans to reduce its operational costs by more than $ 3.5 billion annually. And this is not the first time that thousands of employees were cut. In 2021, the agency cut 30,000 workers.

As the service that has operated as an independent entity since 1970 has fought to balance the books with the decline of the first class mail, it has Fight calls Of President Donald Trump and others that were privatized. Last month, Trump said he can put USPS under the control of the Department of Commerce in what would be an acquisition of executive branch.

The president of the National Letters Association, Brian L. Renfroe, said in a statement in response to Thursday’s letter that welcomes anyone’s help to address some of the agency’s biggest problems, but firmly faced any movement to privatize the postal service.

“Common sense solutions are what postal service needs, not the privatization efforts that will threaten 640,000 postal jobs, 7.9 million jobs linked to our work and universal service in all Americans depends daily,” he said.

Litay, a republican donor who had a logistics business, was appointed to lead USPS during Trump’s first mandate in 2020. He has faced repeated challenges during his mandate, including Covid-19 pandemic Electoral ballot by mail and efforts for drum losses through costs and service cuts.