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.”
DeJoy cited a number of issues including mismanagement of retirement assets and its workers’ compensation program by other government agencies, unfunded mandates and burdensome regulatory requirements.
DeJoy has led a dramatic effort to restructure the post office over the last five years that has used similar tactics to the DOGE team including shrinking the workforce and cancelling or renegotiating contracts.
He said the Postal Regulatory Commission “is an unnecessary agency that has inflicted over $50 billion in damage to the Postal Service by administering defective pricing models and decades old bureaucratic processes.”
They should start with all of the overpaid executives that don’t actually do anything useful. Then cut out some of the layers of middle management that aren’t necessary.