Postmaster General Louis DeJoy abruptly resigned Monday, just days after he’d asked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for help cutting costs.

According to some reports, he knew President Trump was soon going to fire him, so he was getting ahead of the situation by tendering his resignation. Trump has had his eye on revamping or even privatizing the foundering operation, which loses billions annually and is often criticized for poor service.

Though DeJoy in February had said he would resign, he hadn’t given a departure date and until now had continued to carry out his 10-year turnaround plan for the Postal Service. Trump in recent days had been preparing to fire DeJoy, according to people familiar with the matter.

The direction of the Postal Service has been in question since Trump in February raised the idea of folding it into the Commerce Department. DeJoy in March signed an agreement to work with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency on improving efficiency at the Postal Service and suggested some areas the group could review. However, DeJoy resisted some of the task force’s efforts, according to an administration official and other people familiar with the matter.

Trump is tired of all the losing at the USPS:

Trump said last month he was considering bringing the Postal Service under the control of the Department of Commerce, calling the USPS a “tremendous loser” of money.

“It’s been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” Trump said at the time. “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.”

Missouri Republican Rep. Mark Alford was not sad to see DeJoy go:

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

Louis "No Joy" DeJoy was a total FAILURE as Postmaster General. https://t.co/bqvrl52OiI

— Rep. Mark Alford (@RepMarkAlford) March 24, 2025

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DeJoy claimed major progress was made during his tenure but admitted there was much more to be done:

“We have instituted enormous beneficial change to what had been an adrift and moribund organization—much work remains that is necessary to sustain our positive trajectory,” DeJoy said in a statement Monday.

DeJoy, a former logistics executive who took the top job during the first Trump administration in 2020, upended the postal system in the following years. DeJoy tried to bring packages into the Postal Service earlier in their journey. He consolidated some postal facilities and replaced aging vehicles. His changes led to persistent delays of mail and package deliveries in some parts of the country.

Fixing the woes of the postal service is going to be a gargantuan job, even for DOGE chief Elon Musk and President Trump. In fiscal year 2024, it lost $9.5 billion due to a variety of factors, including the fact that internet communication grew ever more popular and many people haven’t sent a physical letter in years. 

The famously mismanaged U.S. Postal Service (USPS), also plagued by scandals for secretly spying on Americans, lost a staggering $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024, which ended in September. READ: https://t.co/1KUnAqQfvr

— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) December 29, 2024

We’ll see who will head up the massive operation in the future and if they can finally tame the beast that has frustrated so many.