Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said DOGE is helping as the agency enters a “historic level of transformational change.”

Postmaster Louis DeJoy clarified his request to DOGE in a letter to Congress. Among them are a review of leases of 31,000 retail centers, regulations that hinder normal business operations, plus workers comp and retirement plan structures.

Postal workers in New Orleans joined a nationwide day of protest this week, raising their voices and waving signs to oppose proposed federal cuts and privatization efforts that they say threaten the future of the United States Postal Service.