The U.S. Postal Service, long a punching bag for complaints about late deliveries and rising costs, might soon get a shake-up straight out of a movie plot—only this time, it’s not Seinfeld character Newman pulling the strings. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy recently inked a deal with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the General Services Administration, bringing in some high-profile help to tackle the agency’s woes.
In a letter to Congress dated March 13, 2025, DeJoy laid out the plan, saying DOGE—led by none other than Elon Musk—will zero in on straightening out the Postal Service’s tangled retirement funds, Workers’ Compensation Program, and a mess of outdated regulations.
DeJoy didn’t mince words in the letter. “The DOGE team asked us for the big problems they could sink their teeth into,” he wrote, pointing to a…
