This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Officials with the United States Postal Service have informed Congress of a new agreement through which they will reduce the staffing numbers for the money-losing agency by 10,000.

A report from Fox News cited the letter from U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to members of Congress.

His agreement is with the General Services Administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

DeJoy has expressed that the USPS is a "broken business model that was not financially sustainable without critically necessary and core change."

His letter explained, "Fixing a broken organization that had experienced close to $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion, without a bankruptcy proceeding, is a daunting task. Fixing a heavily legislated and overly regulated organization as massive, important, cherished, misunderstood and debated as the United States Postal Service, with such a broken business model, is even more difficult."

The $78 billion a year agency currently has some 640,000 workers.

Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., was upset by the efficiency agenda.

"The only thing worse for the Postal Service than DeJoy's 'Delivering for America' plan is turning the service over to Elon Musk and DOGE so they can undermine it, privatize it, and then profit off Americans' loss," he explained in a statement.

A spokesman for the union representing letter carriers said the organization would oppose any move to privatize the work.

The staffing reduction will be done through a voluntary early-retirement scheme, the report said.

In recent years, with the advent of email and the electronic exchange of documents and information, there has been a drop in the number of first-class letters being mailed.