USPS on the help of DOGE finds “other efficiency”: NPR

The head of the American Postal Service agreed to allow the Doug team from President Trump’s advisor to billionaire Elon Musk to help find “other competencies” in the country’s post service, according to not A message to the leaders of Congress It was released on Thursday.

The director of the post office, Louis Digoy, signed the agreement with Dog on Wednesday night, as the outgoing USPs chief confirmed in the letter, noting that the postal service-which was going through controversial reorganization for 10 years since 2021 to try to correct its troubled financial resources-“is happy to help us in our worthy reason.”

The leaders of the veil of two USPS NPR employees tell that Digoy assured them that there are provisions in the agreement that prevents the members of the Musk team, known as the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, from accessing information that is not restricted in postal service records More than half a million employees. NPR did not review the agreement.

“We support this type of protection, assuming that they are compliance with it,” said Brian Reanfru – President of the National Association of Messages Tankers, the City Transport Companies Union – for NPR. “There is a reason to doubt the basis of what we saw from some other federal agencies.”

Mark Damastein, President of the American Burrican Workers Union, says in a statement to NPR that the union representing the mail and other USPS staff “will use everything in our authority, including each legal tool, to ensure that data related to employee information and information about individual customers remains private and exit from Elon Musk and Muskrats.”

DOGE and USPS spokesman did not respond to requests to comment on the provisions of the agreement.

It is not clear what Duj will try to do while USPS continues to “self -help” strategies

This new arrangement comes at a time when the Trump administration faces more than ten lawsuits about Dog’s access to data in other federal agencies amid a batch to reduce the workforce and programs operating in the US government.

So far, there has been no general sign that Dog’s efforts have reached post service. However, in recent months, Trump and his officials have suggested converting USPS, including expressing his support for service privatization and suggesting what Congress has created to be an independent agency in the Ministry of Commerce, a step that is likely to be challenged in court.

These suggestions, along with Musa’s wide attempts to reshape the federal government, have been extracted The protests from the Democrats On Capitol Hill. Representative Jerry Honoli from Virginia – the best democratic in the House Supervisory Committee, who Digoy message released The Dejoy agreement was criticized as a way to allow Musk to “infiltrate the postal service.

“This surrender will have severe consequences for all Americans – especially those in rural and difficult areas – who rely on postal service every day to provide mail, medicines, cards, and more,” Konolly said in a statement.

It is not clear exactly what Dog will try to do in USPS. Dejoy speech confirmed that the postal service uses “self -assistance” strategies to achieve “efficiency gains, costs and revenue growth.” The director of the post office indicated that it was a voluntary early retirement program He announced for the first time in mid -January To the postal service employees. The program is expected to reduce the USPS labor force by 10,000 additional people in the next thirty days after an early loss of about 30,000 workers from the fiscal year 2021.

However, he asked Duj’s representatives to “” big problems they can help “, Digoy said that he gave them a list of” incurable “issues that he described as out of postal service control and in the hands of Congress. One is Long -term dispute On how to calculate the employee management office, postal service obligations to obtain retirement benefits before 1970. Digoy referred to Postal Organizational CommitteeAnd created by the Congress to monitor USPS, as an “unnecessary agency” whose members stand “in the way of the timely and necessary changes required for success as a self -funded institution in a competitive environment.”

The director of the post office, who was a great donor to Trump before joining USPS, wanders with the committee on Criticism of his reorganization plan. In a statement responding to a Digoy message, the People’s Republic of China says it “has done more than its role to help” postal service with followers of the law “to ensure that USPS provides global service to all Americans” and “Fair Sonseguards in Al -Hazm markets by preventing postal service from misusing the monopoly site.”

As for whether Doge can make any progress in the challenges facing USPS, Renfroe, President of the City Mail Carriers Federation, says he follows the approach to “waiting and seeing”.

“The way in which the postal service accepts, its processes and movements, and the mail receives the incredibly complicated.” “I think it will be completely unreasonable, based on what I know about the way Dog looks at things, in order to dig them deep into the operations just because of their complexity.”

Edit Benjamin Sawasi