Postal career workforce continues decline
US Postal Service employment statistics showed a continuing decline in the career workforce at the end of 2007. The USPS ended the year with 681,013 career employees, down 1.9% from the prior year. The decrease of 13,329 career jobs was more than made up for by 21,537 added casual workers, and 11,801 transitional employees.
By craft, clerks and nurses saw the largest decline, down 4.5%, for a loss of 9,515 jobs. City carriers were also down from the prior year, by 1.9%, or 4,367 employees. Rural carriers increased by 1.8%, and mail handlers were up 0.7%. Field supervisors and managers declined by 1.6%, or 533 jobs, while Headquarters added 103 positions, for an increase of 3.7%. Field support positions also increased, up 3.8%, or 276 additional career positions.
January 11th, 2008 08:39
You got to love this, HDQ & Support added a total of 379 positions! Do as I say not as I do. The Postal Service is so overmanaged and top heavy!
January 12th, 2008 04:02
Where’s carvin Marvin when you need him. After he sliced all the fat they have slowly replenished their ranks to the point of extreme top heaviness AGAIN.
January 12th, 2008 13:26
I have seen customer service decline and the post office in general gone from bad to unbeliveable horrible!
January 14th, 2008 14:01
we have become a walmart society ever since reagan fired air traffic controlers. there will be no (NO) union jobs after 4 more years if a republican is elected. all part-time no benefit jobs! bush is pushing his one America open borders agenda. I thank God i am retired, but worry about kids and grandkids.
January 19th, 2008 02:58
You wont find same kind of dedication from the transitional or casual employees that the CAREER employees have. I too have seen some pretty bad things going on since I started my career 20 yrs ago. In my building they havent hired but about 10 clerks since the yr 2000, and believe me we have had tons of people to either quit, get fired or retire. Now we are faced with them getting rid of the manual aisle which throws all the mail that the machine cant run. They want to ship it all out to the stations on the last run. All that mail will not be prosessed by the time the carrier leaves on his route. It doesnt make sense to me what they do. One day at a time there.
January 20th, 2008 09:32
HQ and Area offices grew 52% and 6% respectively over the past 5 years while the field workforce (those who do the work!) all have decreased with the exeception of the rural craft (due to growth and their labor contract). This increase DOES NOT include hundreds if not thousands of contract employees not accounted for! What happened to full and open disclosure not to mention accountability?? If you included ALL HQ and Area employees (career and contract) this figure would certainly be significantly higher!!!
January 24th, 2008 23:45
The decrease in career workforce is bad enough. But why oh why are we increasing transitionals? The transition was from mechanization to automation. All LSM’s and mechanized FSM’s are long gone. Neither rain, snow or blatant hypocrisy will stop top management from sucking the workforce dry.