To hear President Donald Trump and Elon Musk tell it, the dead steal elections. They get fraudulent Social Security checks. And now, apparently, dead people are working for the government too.

Well, over the weekend, people outside the federal government realized that seemingly anyone can send an email that will presumably reach Musk at this Office of Personnel Management address. On Facebook, Alt National Park Service, a "resistance" page dedicated to protecting the parks, posted this:

Multiple major agencies, including the FBI, State Department and Pentagon, have directed employees not to respond to Musk’s email.

Many federal employees across the country are back at agency offices under President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make a seemingly unprompted post egging on Elon Musk. “ELON IS DOING A GREAT JOB,” the post says. “BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM GET MORE AGGRESSIVE. REMEMBER,

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who leads President Donald Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, has issued a directive to all United States federal employees. Musk stated that they would receive an email requesting them to explain what they had accomplished at work in the past week.