Comments on: NAPUS: Job freeze is back on http://www.postalnewsblog.com/2009/03/14/napus-job-freeze-is-back-on/ more from postalnews.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:06:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: seenoevil http://www.postalnewsblog.com/2009/03/14/napus-job-freeze-is-back-on/comment-page-1/#comment-131587 seenoevil Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:04:52 +0000 http://www.postalnewsblog.com/?p=1534#comment-131587 From the PRC - USPS Annual Tables FY2008: Dollar value of labor compensation compared to FY2007 Increase of $112.1 million/Postmasters Increase of $31.6 million/Supervisors DECREASE of $527.3 million/clerks Decrease of $91.7 million/mail handlers Decrease of $171.6 million/ city carriers Also of interest: $13.3 million spent for Relocation $11.2 million spent for Transfer of Household Effects Fun Fact: $6.3 million spent on rubber bands From the PRC – USPS Annual Tables FY2008:

Dollar value of labor compensation compared to FY2007
Increase of $112.1 million/Postmasters
Increase of $31.6 million/Supervisors
DECREASE of $527.3 million/clerks
Decrease of $91.7 million/mail handlers
Decrease of $171.6 million/ city carriers

Also of interest:
$13.3 million spent for Relocation
$11.2 million spent for Transfer of Household Effects

Fun Fact:
$6.3 million spent on rubber bands

]]> By: Steve Musacco http://www.postalnewsblog.com/2009/03/14/napus-job-freeze-is-back-on/comment-page-1/#comment-131136 Steve Musacco Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:47:38 +0000 http://www.postalnewsblog.com/?p=1534#comment-131136 True to its modus of operandi, the postal management associations and union organizations will not be informed by the USPS of any significant downsizing or major organizational changes until after the fact. Instead of using the brain trust that is available, absent the large mailers who invariably link their interest to work sharing and flexibility (code for privatization of core postal operations), the USPS will continue to force change downward (i.e., top-down control) without any or very little input from the major stakeholders. Consequently, because of no buy-in and input from the management associations and union organizations, implementation of change management initiatives will likely be ill conceived and tend to increase the debilitating effects of stress and low morale for its employees. Action to reform the postal culture is necessary now. Postal employees, regardless of rank or position, deserve a postal culture in which the core values of respect, fairness, and validation of dignity, are not empty slogans, but instead are the reality of organizational life. True to its modus of operandi, the postal management associations and union organizations will not be informed by the USPS of any significant downsizing or major organizational changes until after the fact. Instead of using the brain trust that is available, absent the large mailers who invariably link their interest to work sharing and flexibility (code for privatization of core postal operations), the USPS will continue to force change downward (i.e., top-down control) without any or very little input from the major stakeholders. Consequently, because of no buy-in and input from the management associations and union organizations, implementation of change management initiatives will likely be ill conceived and tend to increase the debilitating effects of stress and low morale for its employees.

Action to reform the postal culture is necessary now. Postal employees, regardless of rank or position, deserve a postal culture in which the core values of respect, fairness, and validation of dignity, are not empty slogans, but instead are the reality of organizational life.

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