Chicago meeting notes
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This is what was discussed at a meeting of all District Managers and Plant Managers held in Chicago last week:
7000 to 9000 routes have to be removed in FY 09.
Two rate increases in FY 09 packages will go up 5% in January, 1st Class will go up 4.8% in May.
Base pay will be frozen.
If we stop Saturday delivery it will be a savings of 3.5 – 5.0 billion, but we can't do that by ourselfs, has to go through congress.
DPS goal will be 95% in FY09.
Mail will have to be finished in processing by 0600AM.
FSS orders have been cut, so if your district was getting 4 or five you will be getting only three now.
The volume we are working now is the same as it was in 1977.
Letters are going out this week informing clerks they are now going to be carriers.
We need to cut our compliment by 64,600 employees this FY.
Only 8,500 took the VERA, the goal was 40,000.
HQ will be reduced by 1,200 positions.
Registry jobs will not be posted as registry only jobs, they will have other duties including registry.
Pay is frozen for all executive positions.
November 10th, 2008 19:04
After carrying mail for 10 years and having had both knees ruined, I took a clerks job to avoid having knee replacement. I work longer hours now, and when I go home, I’m tired. I work hard as a clerk, (Window and distribution in a town of 3500) yet I know that carriers work harder. I doubt that I’ll get forced to carry with my seniority, and none of these things is “official.” Will any clerks be forced to carry? No one knows, so let’s not get excited about something that hasn’t happened yet.
November 10th, 2008 22:38
1200 at headquarters will be cut. Whats that, cooks and maids? How about the six supervisors at a 24 route office that bump into each other trying to find something to do. The craft tries to alert he higher up dweebs that billons could be saved by cutting these irrelevant, repulsive, uneducated buffoons on the workroom floor. To no avail. The postmaster de-staffs when she knows that an audit is on the way. Why is it that no headquarters stooge can see the money that is wasted on liars, clock watching slack-asses and, oh yea….LIARS.
November 10th, 2008 22:48
I think the only thing that will save the USPS is if Obama and Congress absorb the entire USPS and make it a cabinet level office again (Post Office Department). Then congress can supplement the cost of the USPS doing business and no-more quasi government agency.
November 11th, 2008 08:29
Lets just hope that Harry Potter and magic ball gets the boot from Obama. I feel like these idiots are running the post office as if President Bush was running it himself. How much money did they waste on this DM meeting in chicago? How much money did they waste in the making of FSS machines? Hell one day last week the supervisor took all our rubber bands, what do we have to check the rubber bands in/out now too?
November 11th, 2008 09:39
Easy way to cut 64,600 in FY 2009……offer cash incentives to senior retirement eligible employees. There, wasn’t that easy?
November 12th, 2008 11:25
I hope they get rid of all limited and light duty people. And let the ones that want to work keep their job. It gets so old to see people sit around and waiting for the day to go by because they “can’t” work.
November 12th, 2008 18:21
I believe that everyone in the postal service whether a craft employee or management has to understand that the livelyhood of the postal service is in danger. We all need to work harder and possibly together to overcome and hopefully resolve some of the issues in our agency. By simply pointing fingers and complaining about what someone else is or is not doing will not help the situation. Perhaps a new union encompassing all employees as one entity could resolve some of the issues rather than creating barriers between each other. After all, are we not all here to get the job done?
November 17th, 2008 10:19
If you can make all the limited duty and restricted duty clerks with the monetary awards which can help them start out a good life which we do not intend to get hurt but unfortunately it has happened.. so that is true some of them does not want to work but for those people who wants to work but suffer with the pains and I think they deserve the monetary awards and start a new life as a person who can perserve their health by not working in pressured world of postal office .. It is no fun trying to heal itself when it continues the work and can hurt ourselves with lousy stools and etc.. which I am considering the postal service has not really given us a good seating or things to look for to work.. thanks
November 29th, 2008 10:31
I very much love summer
Someone very much loves winter
I Wish to know whom more
For what you love winter?
For what you love summer? Let’s argue
August 19th, 2010 20:55
i seriously cannot wait any longer for deathly hallows to come out