The leader of the US Postal Service on Thursday said in a letter to the legislators that he had achieved an agreement with the team of Elon Musk, who allowed him to help him “identify and achieve further efficiency”.
The postal service has long fought with its finances and Mr. Musk and President Trump suggested that it should be privatized. However, the cost of reducing the cost of Mr. Musk, the Ministry of Government’s efficiency, did not focus on about 635,000 postal service workers.
General Postmaster Louis Dejoy, who took position during Trump’s first Presidency and moved to reduce ranks of agencies During the biden administrationHe said he signed an agreement with Mr. Musk on Wednesday.
Mr. Dejoy, a Republican megadon, wrote in a letter that Mr. Musk’s initiative was “efforts in accordance with his efforts.
He said that the workforce of the postal service was reduced by 30,000 from the fiscal year 2021 and that the agency planned to complete the “further reduction of another 10,000 people in the next 30 days” previously introduced Voluntary retirement program.
Mr. Musk said last week at Technical Conference Organized Morgan Stanley, that the postal service should be privatized, declares: “We should privatize anything that can be proportionally privatized.”
Mr. Trump has a turn again proposed privatization an independent agency and Merger This with the trading department. Officials of trade unions and democratic legislators were concerned about talking about privatization and claimed that such a step would harm workers, increased prices higher and disproportionately damaged services in rural areas.
The agreement described by Mr. Dejoy on Thursday was relatively less disturbing, but attracted the strict reprimand of Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia, the Democrats ranking in the Lower Committee for Supervision and Reform, which oversees the postal service.
In his statement, Mr. Connolly said that the agreement would bring “catastrophic consequences for all Americans-especially those in rural and hard-to-reach areas-they rely on postal service every day.”
“The only thing worse for the postal service,” Mr. Connolly said in his statement, if the agency was handed over to Mr. Muska to “undermine, privatize and then benefit the loss of Americans”.
In his letter, General Postmastro claimed that the service has changed from the “bureaucracy of the government” in recent years on the verge of financial collapse to the agency “experiencing an unprecedented period of growth and innovation”.
“Our strategies have focused on maintaining a modified but sustainable universal service mission that was noble in construction, today still merit, and which can be financially self -sufficient with the changes we follow,” wrote Mr. Dejoy.
Postal service was once a government department at the cabinet level but was has turned into an independent agency under President Richard Nixon. In 2021 The agency announced that it had lost $ 87 billion for previous 14 years.
Brian L. Renfroe, President of the National Letters Association, said on Thursday in an interview that he is “skeptical to Doga”.
However, Mr. Renfroe said that Mr. Musk’s team has not yet done “nothing to cause big alarms”.
“We will be in waiting mode and we will see,” he said, adding that any new postal service cuts would “almost directly lead to the challenges we provide the service we provide every day.”
