Now, back to the wrangling over the design for the RATS letterhead. Wrangling is an exaggeration. For at least half a year, however, the “RATS logo” has appeared near the end of the agenda ...

USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal employee reductions. DeJoy told Congress in a letter seen ...

DOGE will assist USPS with addressing “big problems” at the $78 billion-a-year agency, which has sometimes struggled in recent years to stay afloat. The agreement also includes the General ...

The U.S. Postal Service announced in December that Toussaint would be on the stamp and last month held a dedication ceremony in New Orleans, according to the USPS. A student dancer at the ...

Today, the USPS is the largest civilian employer in the government, with roughly 600,000 workers, many of them holding civil service and union jobs. The postal system has been a political ...

The agency currently employs approximately 635,000 workers across the US. DeJoy, who was appointed by the USPS Board of Governors in 2020 to run the Postal Service as it struggled to survive ...

Twice this week, Elon Musk has talked about cutting programs like Social Security and Medicare at odds with what President Trump and Republicans have said about safeguarding the programs.

During a recent interview, Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about a potential push for his department to take control of the USPS — even though Congress set up ...

The United States Postal Service said it has signed a deal with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut costs at the agency. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told congressional leaders ...

Trump said last week that he's considering merging the USPS, now an independent agency, into the Commerce Department − and bringing it under the authority of the Executive Branch, led by the ...

WASHINGTON — In a story published March 13, 2025, The Associated Press reported about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plans to cut 10,000 workers. This story has been updated to clarify that ...