{"id":16779,"date":"2025-03-14T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16779"},"modified":"2025-03-14T17:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:12:25","slug":"postal-service-signs-cost-cutting-deal-with-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16779","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service signs cost-cutting deal with DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The United States Postal Service said it has signed a deal with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut costs at the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told congressional leaders&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/democrats-oversight.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/pmg-dejoy-to-congressional.leaders_3.13.2025.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a letter<\/a>&nbsp;that he had signed an agreement with Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE to cut jobs and spending at the agency that has long lost money.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The postmaster general said his agency plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers within the next month through a voluntary early retirement program.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/postal-signs-cost-cutting-deal-211908642.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/postal-signs-cost-cutting-deal-211908642.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The United States Postal Service said it has signed a deal with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut costs at the agency.<br \/>\nPostmaster General Louis DeJoy told congressional leaders in a letter that he had signed an agreement with Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE to cut jobs and spending at the agency that has long lost money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The postmaster general said his agency plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers within the next month through a voluntary early retirement program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/postal-signs-cost-cutting-deal-211908642.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2131,1598,805,984],"class_list":["post-16779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-doge","tag-elon-musk","tag-layoffs","tag-post-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16780,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16779\/revisions\/16780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}