A planned reduction of 10,000 workers stoked fears that the US Postal Service is on a path toward privatization.

The mailing agency will work with GSA and the group led by Elon Musk, who has called for Postal Service privatization.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy revealed Thursday that USPS is working with Elon Musk's DOGE to find ways to save the agency money.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress in a letter Thursday that the USPS aims to eliminate 10,000 jobs using a voluntary early retirement program over the next 30 days to reduce costs at the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service. The USPS employs roughly 635,000 people. The retirement program was announced on Jan. 13.

Postmaster General pledges to work with Elon Musk's DOGE to address the service's "big problems." USPS currently employs about 640,000 workers tasked with making deliveries from inner cities to rural areas and even far-flung islands.