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We're exploring ways to improve the Postal Service, which has been losing significant amounts of money. One option is a potential merger with the Commerce Department. The goal is to create a more efficient postal service. Whether it's a full merger or simply leveraging talented people from other departments, we aim to reduce the losses. The Postal Service will remain, but we believe we can significantly improve its operations and financial performance. We're considering all options to keep it very similar to what it is now, but in a way that prevents it from losing tremendous amounts of money.

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Speaker 0 introduces a campaign to cut government waste, specifying that deficit reduction requires cutting billions from valued programs, but eliminating pointless waste should be easy. Speaker 1 claims there has been a tremendous amount of waste and fraud in the government during the Biden administration, estimating federal government fraud at half a trillion dollars. The goal is to reduce this figure, saving taxpayer money by stopping spending on things that very few taxpayers would agree makes sense, such as transgender animal surgeries. Speaker 1 also questions why twenty million people who are definitely dead are mocked as alive in the Social Security database.

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You are bankrupting the postal service through reputation alone. You are responsible for the fall of the postal service and its lack of accountability. No, Congress is responsible for the fall of the postal service. With all the AI and computer systems, you are worse than someone hand-delivering the mail. This is the response that the postmaster gave Congress when he doesn't like what he hears. He literally covered his ears and gave himself a grade of A. With that, I rest.

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The speaker discusses a four-year fight to uncover who paid for trucks allegedly used to transport ballots, suspecting the DNC or a front company. They claim the postal service digitally photographs all first-class mail, but there are no digital photos for 10-12 million ballots, suggesting they weren't legitimately processed. The speaker alleges the postal service changed its document retention policy from a six-year look back to 30-90 days in March/April 2020, destroyed election-related documents, and then reverted to the six-year policy. They claim this violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which requires public notice and comment periods for such changes, unless a federal judge signs off. The speaker states that Judge Emmett Sullivan, who oversaw the Mike Flynn case, signed off on the postal service's document destruction. Another speaker adds that Judge Sullivan oversaw the postal service's handling of mail-in ballots nationally in the summer of 2020 and ordered them to deliver ballots by specific dates.

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A new government report reveals that thousands of postal workers are involved in mail theft. The inspector general reports a 47% increase in closed cases against employees last fiscal year compared to 2019, totaling nearly 6,000 cases. However, this figure may be an undercount due to insufficient mailroom supervisors and a lack of training to identify theft. The postal police union president highlights that these vulnerabilities are well-known, with criminals exploiting them to steal mail and then leave the job. Additionally, the postal service is unaware of the operational status of many of its over 18,000 surveillance cameras. The lack of transparency on this issue may stem from a desire to protect the postal service's reputation. For more details on the types of workers involved in mail theft, visit mbc7.com.

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I strongly oppose this plan and will fight to protect mail delivery in rural Missouri. If I have to, I’ll go down with the ship to ensure rural and urban areas receive timely mail, which is currently failing. Taxpayers have supported the postal service, and despite past legislation reducing liabilities, we still see poor delivery. I've expressed concerns about the Kansas City area and the Bering post office, which has been delayed for two years. My patience is exhausted, and I expect improvements in service and the reopening of the Bering post office as promised. I hope we can work together moving forward.

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The speaker questions why the post office shut down ballot imaging and stopped keeping the images for the required 6 years. They highlight that the post office only kept the images for 30 days and then resumed keeping them for 6 years once Biden became president in 2021.

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You cannot give yourself an A grade. I just did. You can't grade your own paper. I've been to medical school. Congress is responsible for the postal service's issues, not me. I'm trying to fix it. With all the AI and technology available, your performance is worse than if I delivered mail on horseback. This is how the postmaster responds when faced with criticism—he covers his ears and gives himself an A grade. And with that, I rest.

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I am a postal worker. The mail never stops, it's relentless. It piles up every day, more and more. You gotta keep delivering, but it keeps coming in. The bar code, the clearinghouse.

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Milton Friedman once noted that government management often leads to shortages. This applies to the U.S. Postal Service, which was promised a $107 billion bailout in 2020 to achieve financial stability by 2031. However, losses have increased, with $6.5 billion lost in 2023 and projected losses of $9.5 billion in 2024. Instead of cutting costs like a private business would, the USPS has converted over 190,000 workers into higher-paid career roles, worsening its financial situation. Despite spending billions on electric vehicles and facility upgrades, service has declined. Congress has provided $120 billion in funding over four years, but with national debt exceeding $36 trillion, it's time for meaningful reform at the Postal Service.

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You bankrupted the postal service through your reputation alone. You are responsible for its fall and the lack of accountability. That is not true, the postal service is growing and Congress is responsible for the fall of the postal service. I am trying to fix it. On your watch, with all the AI and computer systems, the postal service has gotten worse. You're worse than if I took a horse and delivered it two miles down the road. This is the response that the Postmaster just gave Congress when he doesn't like what he hears. Literally covered his ears and gave himself the grade of A.

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Thank you for being here. My district in the southeastern U.S. suffered from Hurricane Helene, impacting postal facilities. How many post offices in North Carolina are still closed, and how long will they remain so? Currently, about 10 post offices are closed, down from 30 after the hurricane, affecting 3 million delivery points. The Fleetwood post office is too small for its volume and relies on the Boone post office, causing delays. Can we expect Fleetwood to be moved or rebuilt? Despite efforts, USPS is projected to lose $9.5 billion this year. Is the Delivering for America plan effective? We just issued Delivery for America 2.0 to improve performance and revenue. We aim to cut costs by $5 billion and grow revenue by $3 billion. How do you determine the limits for postage rate increases? After years of not raising prices, we must adjust for inflation to sustain operations.

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I'm addressing concerns about the Postal Service operating like a private business while facing declining first-class mail volume. Despite this, employee numbers have increased, which seems counterintuitive in a declining business. The issue isn't about changing the laws governing the Postal Service but trying to fix the current situation. There is also concern about shifting costs rather than true reform, especially regarding healthcare and pension expenses. Insourcing jobs increase these costs compared to using contractors. While the reform package aimed to alleviate these expenses, the decision to hire more government employees exacerbates the problem. It would make more sense to hire contractors to avoid these government labor-associated costs.

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The speaker was asked to help fix retirement in the government and discovered that all paper documents for the retirement process are housed in a mine in Pennsylvania. This mine contains 22,000 filing cabinets stacked 10 high, holding 400 million pieces of paper. The retirement process, largely unchanged since the 1950s, involves physical paperwork and can take many months. Currently, the government can only process about 8,000 retirements a month, with processing times taking six to nine months, and calculations are often incorrect. The goal is to digitize the process, creating an online system that takes only a few days. The speaker believes civil servants are subjected to outdated processes and aims to provide a modern, user-friendly experience. The overhaul is expected to be completed in the next couple of months.

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Postmaster DeJoy, while I appreciate your efforts to improve the Postal Service, my concern remains the financial losses. The public wants government efficiency, and while privatization is often suggested, no private company is willing to handle universal mail delivery. However, there are opportunities for partnerships in mail sorting. Your reorganization plan aims to streamline operations, but we need to ensure it effectively reduces costs and improves performance. The Postal Service has significant unfunded mandates and obligations that impact finances. We need to explore legislative changes to help the Postal Service break even. Additionally, the Office of Inspector General is researching costly obligations, including retirement funds, and will provide insights on potential solutions. It's crucial to address postal rates and staffing to enhance efficiency moving forward.

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Elon Musk and Vivek are set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency, tackling wasteful spending. They highlight absurd expenditures, such as studies on selfies and drugged quail, while noting that $500 billion is lost to fraud annually. Many federal employees remain unproductive, working from home despite the end of COVID. The current government has seen a massive increase in spending, with a budget of $7 trillion. There's skepticism about whether Musk and Vivek can effectively manage government inefficiencies, but their business backgrounds may help cut costs. The discussion emphasizes the need for accountability and efficiency in government spending, with hopes that AI could assist in identifying waste.

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The speakers agree the current system is "pretty bad," and Speaker 1 attributes this to a lack of competition, stating the government has a monopoly on governing. Speaker 1 clarifies they are not advocating for privatizing government. The speakers then discuss corruption, with Speaker 0 stating they know some individuals involved. They then consider focusing on incompetency and waste instead of fraud. Speaker 0 agrees there is waste in the system.

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The Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing begins with an acknowledgment of Inspector General Tammy Hull. It has been over three years since Postmaster General DeJoy introduced the Delivering America plan and two and a half years since the Postal Service Reform Act was enacted. Despite challenges, including significant financial losses and past criticisms of the Postal Service's management, DeJoy has made efforts to modernize operations. However, ongoing issues such as delayed mail delivery and high personnel costs remain concerning. The committee emphasizes the need for efficiency and transparency, particularly regarding election mail, while urging DeJoy to provide answers and assurance for future improvements at the Postal Service. The session concludes with a call for bipartisan cooperation to address these challenges.

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The speakers discuss the outdated infrastructure in America, which hasn't been updated in 30-40 years. One speaker claims the last administration did nothing to address it. The other speaker says these problems have built up over a long time, and they launched a contract to modernize the infrastructure by transforming the copper wire system to fiber. This speaker says that when leaving office, they handed over the keys for the new administration to take it to the next level. There were technology and workforce issues. The number of air traffic controllers had been declining for decades, but they finally got it to go up. They handed over a growing air traffic control workforce to the new administration.

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We're streamlining the federal bureaucracy, aiming to reduce the workforce. We found a surprising bottleneck: the retirement process. Currently, the maximum number of retirements per month is capped at 10,000 due to a completely manual, paper-based system. The paperwork is stored in a 1950s-era limestone mine, and the speed of the mine shaft elevator limits processing. This antiquated system employs thousands of people whose efforts could be far better utilized elsewhere. The situation is absurd; we need to modernize this process immediately. Imagine the increased efficiency and contribution to the country's goods and services if these employees were redeployed.

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The speakers discuss the government's outdated paper-based retirement process, which involves storing physical files in a mine. One speaker recounts visiting the mine filled with filing cabinets from the 1960s, emphasizing its security and climate control, but questioning the continued use of paper in 2025. The process requires compiling retirement papers by hand, moving them on carts, and can take over six months, with calculations also done manually. They are implementing a new online retirement process, with 25 retirees currently using it. They mention cases of single retirees having entire pallets or shopping carts of documents. They want to free up the thousands of people who are carrying paper into a mine. They compare the government's technology to the "Flintstones" era. The conversation shifts to the postal service, which is legally required to have a balanced budget but has been losing money since 2007 due to additional regulations. The postal service lost $9.5 billion last year. They believe they can modernize it and help them become profitable.

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The post office operates differently from other government sectors, functioning like a private business. Despite a significant decline in first-class mail volume, employment has not decreased; in fact, there are 20,000 fewer employees than before. The focus has been on reducing costs, yet the number of government employees has increased, leading to higher labor costs, which account for 80% of expenses. Efforts to reform have not effectively addressed these costs, and the debt has risen significantly. While some cost savings have been achieved, the overall financial situation remains dire, highlighting the challenges of operating within government constraints. The need for a more efficient approach is evident, as the current model is not sustainable.

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You keep asking about the post office's business model, but I didn't create the laws governing it; I'm just trying to fix the issues I inherited. You're exaggerating the hiring increases. No one in the private sector would advise increasing employee numbers with a declining business. Instead, we insourced 190,000 jobs by hiring contractors at lower wages and benefits, which is inexplicable. The reform of shifting costs isn't real reform; it's just moving debt to another account within the government. The main goal was to escape healthcare and pension costs. But government employees have dramatically higher healthcare and pension costs compared to contractors. By hiring more government employees instead of contractors, we're compounding the problem we were trying to solve three years ago.

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We're exploring ways to improve the Postal Service, which has been losing significant amounts of money. One idea involves a merger, possibly with the Commerce Department, to enhance its efficiency. While it would remain the Postal Service, the aim is to make it function much better than it has in the past. Alternatively, we might leverage talented individuals from other departments to help reduce the financial losses. The goal is to find a solution that preserves the Postal Service's core functions while significantly improving its financial performance, whether through a merger or by utilizing existing expertise.

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The discussion centers around Iron Mountain, a company that stores vast amounts of paperwork, including government files, in a limestone mine. The hosts highlight that Iron Mountain is valued at over $30 billion, surpassing companies like Snapchat and Twitter. They recount a story about its origins, starting with a mushroom farmer who transformed his cave into a secure storage facility for documents in the 1950s. The company now manages around 80 million square feet of storage, housing everything from legal documents to priceless art. Elon Musk's recent comments about the federal retirement process reveal that the government relies on Iron Mountain for storing retirement paperwork, which is still largely manual. The inefficiencies in this system lead to delays in processing retirements, taking up to 90 days. Despite attempts to digitize the process since the 1980s, these efforts have repeatedly failed due to bureaucracy and the nature of the workforce. The conversation also touches on current events involving Elon Musk, including his interactions with Donald Trump and his interest in acquiring OpenAI. Musk's approach to business and layoffs is critiqued for lacking empathy, especially as it affects real people's lives. The hosts express fascination with Musk's energy and the chaotic nature of his ventures, while also discussing the broader implications of government spending and the challenges of balancing efficiency with compassion in the workplace. The episode concludes with a light-hearted proposal for field trips to observe various companies and industries firsthand.