Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been on quite the warpath, huh? From canceling 239 questionable government contracts (goodbye, “food justice for trans farmers” program) to slashing a whopping 200,000 federal credit cards, Musk has been taking a blowtorch to government waste. It seems like every week brings a new headline about another bureaucratic sacred cow getting the DOGE ax.

Well, buckle up, patriots, because another federal behemoth just got its efficiency notice. The same people who bring you bills, birthday cards, and packages that somehow take twice as long as Prime delivery have just signed on the dotted line with Musk’s cost-cutting crusade.

The United States Postal Service has officially partnered with DOGE to address what Postmaster General Louis DeJoy candidly called a “broken business model.” In a letter to Congress that probably caused several progressive lawmakers to reach for their smelling salts, DeJoy announced plans to cut 10,000 postal jobs through an early retirement program in the next 30 days, acknowledging the dire financial straits of the 250-year-old institution.

Return to Sender: USPS Gets a DOGE Makeover

Let’s be honest—the Postal Service hasn’t exactly been a model of efficiency. As DeJoy pointed out in his letter to Congress:

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“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.”

The voluntary early retirement program will reduce USPS’s massive 640,000-person workforce by about 1.5%, a modest start to reining in an agency that has struggled to adapt to the digital age. This comes after a previous cut of 30,000 workers back in 2021, suggesting that even DeJoy recognizes Rome wasn’t built (or in this case, dismantled) in a day.

Special Delivery: Fiscal Sanity Arrives at Last

For too long, the Postal Service has operated like that one friend who’s constantly broke but refuses to cancel their premium streaming subscriptions. Despite declining first-class mail volume (thanks, email!), USPS has maintained an infrastructure designed for a pre-internet era. President Trump has even floated the idea of merging USPS with the Department of Commerce, bringing the independent agency under executive branch control.

This partnership between DOGE and USPS represents something conservatives have long advocated for: running government more like a business. When your company loses $100 billion, heads roll, budgets get slashed, and operations get streamlined. But in government? They usually just ask for more money.

The agreement aims to help identify “further efficiencies” at the $78 billion-a-year agency, addressing issues like mismanagement of retirement assets and the Workers’ Compensation Program, along with the regulatory red tape that has the Postal Service tied up like a badly packaged parcel.

Going Postal: The Left’s Predictable Meltdown

As predictable as junk mail on Tuesdays, Democrats are already crying foul. Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia clutched his pearls so hard they nearly turned to diamonds, claiming the partnership would “have catastrophic consequences for all Americans.”

“The only thing worse for the Postal Service than DeJoy’s ‘Delivering for America’ plan is turning the service over to Elon Musk and DOGE so they can undermine it, privatize it, and then profit off Americans’ loss,” Connolly dramatically declared, apparently forgetting that a service that loses hundreds of billions isn’t exactly delivering for America in the first place.

He even had the audacity to claim that “reliable mail delivery can’t just be reserved for MAGA supporters and Tesla owners.” Because apparently, fiscal responsibility is now a partisan issue, and suggesting that a government agency shouldn’t hemorrhage money is somehow discriminatory.

The National Association of Letter Carriers also expressed concern, with President Brian L. Renfroe stating they welcome help with addressing problems but stand “firmly against any move to privatize the Postal Service.” Translation: We’re fine with changes as long as nothing actually changes.

Key Takeaways:

• The U.S. Postal Service has partnered with Elon Musk’s DOGE to address nearly $100 billion in losses.
• Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced 10,000 job cuts through voluntary early retirement.
• Democrats and postal unions are opposing the reforms, claiming they will lead to privatization and reduced service.

Source: Fox News