Opening the can of worms?
As the Postal Rate Commission prepares to consider the USPS request for an advisory opinion on service changes that might result from proposed network changes, interested parties are lining up to intervene. As of this morning, Postcom, the DMA, NAPUS, the National Newspaper Association, Time Warner, and the APWU have filed notice that they intend to intervene. (It goes without saying that chronic intervenor David Popkin is also on the list).
The APWU’s intervention is off to a robust start, with a five page, single spaced laundry list of questions about the entire consolidation process, right down to “Were managers given instructions, encouragement, or incentives to file AMP studies?”
The USPS response has been to remind the APWU that the advisory opinion requested deals only with service changes, not with the realignment process itself. It will be interesting to see how the PRC responds.
Stay tuned…
The one consistent problem with consolidation is that, someone near the bottom always looses their job and someone at the top receives monitary rewards while doing nothing. They (Management will will always say No Jobs Will Be Lost). Will they pad their resumes, while they actually do nothing except. But help themselves.
It’s a pitiful state of affaris, but none the less, true.
Frank E. Shirley
Connecticut State Director of Maintenace
APWU