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The Postal Service no longer teeters on the brink of a crisis. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is trying to keep it that way.\nUSPS no longer finds itself in the same dire shape it was in at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. When DeJoy took office in June 2020, the agency was on track to lose $20 billion that year, and stood less than two months away from running out of cash to operate.\nThe agency, even with some financial intervention from Congress \u2014 $10 billion in emergency pandemic funds and $3 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to purchase more electric delivery vehicles and charging stations \u2014 is still far from fully digging itself out from its long-term financial challenges.\nBut DeJoy, sitting at a conference room table at his USPS headquarters office, is talking about what it\u2019ll take for the organization to not just survive, but thrive.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices