DeJoy announces plans to step down as USPS postmaster general

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is planning to step down from his role, and 
is calling on the Postal Service Board of Governors to start looking for 
his successor.

DeJoy, in a letter dated Monday, told the USPS Board of Governors to begin 
searching for a new postmaster general. DeJoy took office in June 2020.

“While there remains much critical work to be done to ensure that the 
Postal Service can be financially viable as we continue to serve the 
nation in our essential public service mission, I have decided it is time 
to start the process of identifying my successor and of preparing the 
Postal Service for this change,” DeJoy said in a statement.

USPS is about midway through DeJoy’s10-year reform plan. The agency has 
yet to reach its “break-even” financial targets, but reported a rare net 
profit for the first quarter of fiscal 2025.

DeJoy told the board in his letter that those recent financial results are 
a “strong indicator that the Postal Service is on the path to fulfilling 
its long-neglected legal duty to operate in a self-financing manner.” 
USPS, however, still anticipates ending FY 2025 with a $6.9 billion net 
loss.

“Postmaster General is a demanding role made more difficult by the 
devastating condition I found
the Postal Service in when I arrived and the almost unceasing resistance 
to change — without
offering any viable solutions — from stakeholders motivated by both 
parochial and political
purposes,” he wrote. “The simplest and most obvious ideas and solutions 
receive illogical and irrational scrutiny from those that have no 
responsibility for ensuring the financial viability of the Postal 
Service.”

DeJoy is urging the board to select a new postmaster general who’s 
committed to implementing the rest of his 10-year Delivering for America 
plan.

USPS, he added, is on course to cut $2 billion in annual transportation 
costs, $1.5 billion in annual mail processing costs, and grow revenue by 
$5 billion each year. DeJoy said these goals, and other unfinished tasks 
in the 10-year reform plan, will “take several years to accomplish and to 
perfect.”

To further cut costs, USPS is offering early retirement buyouts to mail 
handlers who work in the agency’s mail processing facilities and other 
USPS employees who work in a variety of support positions.

Eligible USPS employees have until March 7 to accept the early retirement 
offers, and would agree to retire from the agency effective April 30.

“As I look around the organization, I see many long-term retirement-
eligible employees sticking around based upon their pride in, and 
commitment to, our Delivering for America plan. That said, it is time for 
us together, to think about and plan for the inevitable changing of the 
guard in many areas of our organization, to ensure that the new culture we 
have developed survives our tenure, including mine, and continues to 
thrive,” DeJoy wrote.

The Postal Regulatory Commission warned in an advisory opinion earlier 
this month that the next wave of USPS changes under its 10-year Delivering 
for America plan would slow mail for a “significant portion of the 
nation,” and would at best achieve “meager savings” that wouldn’t help the 
agency financially in the long run.

USPS recently told its regulator it plans to no longer count Sundays and 
federal holidays in tracking its on-time mail delivery metrics. While USPS 
doesn’t deliver mail on these days, its mail processing operations run 
every day. DeJoy said in a recent Board of Governors meeting that USPS is 
“burdened by the current framework” of measuring on-time mail.

DeJoy told the board that when he took the postmaster general job at the 
height of the COVID-19 pandemic, USPS was on a “crash course” to run out 
of cash within 60 days. USPS made it through the near-term financial 
crisis, but DeJoy said the agency needs further reforms to a “broken” 
business model.

Single-piece First-Class Mail volume has declined by 80% since 1998, but 
DeJoy told the board that “we still deploy operating practices and adhere 
to archaic service performance standards as if mail
volume was as abundant as it was back in that time.”

Meanwhile, DeJoy is looking to grow USPS revenue by growing its package 
delivery business that competes with private-sector companies. He told the 
board “our new package shipping products are extremely popular and are 
overtaking the marketplace.”

“As you know, I have worked tirelessly to lead the 640,000 men and women 
of the Postal Service in accomplishing an extraordinary transformation,” 
DeJoy wrote. “We have served the American people through an unprecedented 
pandemic and through a period of high inflation and sensationalized 
politics.”

Amber McReynolds, chairwoman of the Board of Governors, thanked DeJoy for 
his “tireless efforts to modernize the Postal Service and reverse decades 
of neglect.”

“I commend Postmaster General DeJoy for inspiring the Postal Service with 
strategic direction, a competitive spirit, and a culture of achievement 
that comes from the successful implementation of large-scale change,” 
McReynolds said. “I have seen this spirit of purpose grow steadily during 
my time on the Board of Governors, and I am confident it will continue to 
grow as progress begets further progress, and the promise of a transformed 
and modernized Postal Service is fully realized.”

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2025/02/dejoy-announces-plans-to-
step-down-as-usps-postmaster-general/


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