Postal Service director resigns amid doubts about the agency's future under the Trump administration
His resignation left Doug Tulino, currently the deputy postmaster general, in charge while a permanent replacement is found.
DeJoy had held the post since 2020/USPS.
Louis DeJoy, director of the United States Postal Service (USPS), resigned amid doubts about the agency's future during the Trump administration. The board had anticipated his resignation since February. His departure left Doug Tulino, the deputy postmaster general, in charge while a permanent replacement was sought.
DeJoy, who previously served as CEO of New Breed Logistics, was appointed to his position by the USPS Board of Governors in mid-2020.
"While our management team and the men and women of the Postal Service have established the path toward financial sustainability and high operating performance – and we have instituted enormous beneficial change to what had been an adrift and moribund organization – much work remains that is necessary to change our positive trajectory," DeJoy said.
Recently, there has been speculation of a USPS downsizing, which could affect as many as 10,000 employees as part of a voluntary retirement program.
Trump questioned the continuity of the USPS
Both President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have questioned the Postal Service, flirting with the possibility of the agency being absorbed in the coming months.
"It’s been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost. And we think we can do something that will be very good and keep it a very similar way, but whether it’s a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn’t lose so much," Trump said in mid-February, even mentioning that the Department of Commerce could be the one to annex it.
This is not the first time the president has questioned the continuity of the USPS, given that he already did so during his first stint in the White House.
Another high-profile resignation
Amtrak was founded in 1971 as a semi-public company, and it operates with state and federal subsidies but is for-profit. Its network includes 500 stations along 34,000 km of track, which traverse 46 of the 48 contiguous states. It carries an estimated 87,000 passengers daily.
Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader, recently spoke at a Morgan Stanley conference, where he expressed his support for privatizing companies. "I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized. I think we should privatize the Post Office and Amtrak, for example. We should privatize everything we possibly can," he said.
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