Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) its June 2026 Porker of the Month for its abysmal financial condition that includes losses in every fiscal year since 2007 totaling $109 billion and its refusal to fix the underlying causes of those results. As Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) noted during a June 24, 2026, hearing, “This is not a rough patch, it is a broken business model.”
CAGW President Tom Schatz said, “The 2020 Delivering for America (DFA) plan was supposed to deliver a break-even year by 2023, but so far has delivered more than $25 billion in losses. Between 2012 and 2025, mail volume dropped by 51 billion, but spending increased by $10 billion. Instead of expanding the use of private sector processing facilities, the USPS is spending billions it doesn’t have on its own duplicative and wasteful processing centers. Now, the USPS is asking for tens of billions of dollars to help pull itself out of its fiscal hole. Borrowing and spending more money will not resolve the USPS’s underlying issues.
“For the sake of households and businesses across the country, the Delivering for America plan must be halted and replaced with policies that will allow the USPS to revitalize its sagging fiscal outlook and continue to connect communities with affordable and efficient delivery of mail and packages. That would be something to celebrate along with the rest of the festivities for America’s 250th anniversary.
“For continuing to waste money and asking for tens of billions of dollars more instead of making the necessary reforms to fix its broken business model, the USPS was an easy choice for June Porker of the Month.”
First of all, the USPS is Not a business it is a service. United States Postal SERVICE! It does have many issues to work out, start from the top down! Way to many Chiefs!
I agree with the organization having too many chiefs. There are Executive Directors of this and Directors of that. The only thing many of them are doing is directing money into their bank accounts.
Organization Design was supposed to accomplish the following:
Organizational Structures
111.1 Objectives
The organizational structures policies of the Postal Service are established to
meet the following objectives:
a. Support the mission of the Postal Service.
b. Ensure there is no duplication of jobs, functions, or responsibilities
within or between organizational structures.
c. Ensure the relevance and consistency of organizational structures and
staffing.
PMG Steiner’s congressional testimony this week cemented the fact that upper management is incapable of efficiently managing the organization and doing what is necessary for the future success of the USPS.
Porker of the month? It’s porker of the decade. The USPS is the poster child of a poorly run agency that’s accountable to no one with a huge bureaucracy that desperately needs trimming. Only in the federal government could someone perform so poorly and get a bonus; it even goes down to the local level. It was hoped Steiner would use his expertise at Waste Management and get rid of the trash, but he’s only added to it. He acts like a spoiled rich kid running back to his daddy (Congress) asking for money. The OIG has confirmed over and over that these people don’t know what they’re doing, DFA or otherwise.