USPS spent $78 million on relocations in 2008
TweetFigures released by the US Postal Service show that the organization spent $78.4 million on relocating employees in the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2008. Of that, almost half, or $37.9 million went to “Residence Purchase and/or Sale/Lease”. The USPS home purchase program for relocated employees has been a subject of controversy since it was revealed that the USPS had spent $1.2 million to purchase the home of a South Carolina postmaster who had taken a voluntary lateral transfer to a position in Texas.
Just under $15 million of the home purchase funds money went to Headquarters and Area staff, which account for less than four thousand of the postal service’s 632,000 career employees. A similar amount went to postmasters and supervisors, who make up a much larger share, about 54,000 employees, of the workforce. Employees of the Inspection Service and the Office of the Inspector General, about 3,900 total staff. got $3.4 million in home purchase benefits, down from almost $7 million the prior year. Home purchase benefits for clerks, carriers and mail handlers came to just over three hundred thousand dollars.
March 23rd, 2009 07:06
Now we know where all the money is going. Keep digging and you will find more. But keep going after the craft employees and window clerks make sure you ask all the questions because you are the reason we are losing money. Not that we like to spend money. Tell me was it necessary to move quite a few district managers around? What purpose did that serve other than maybe they were close to retirement and wanted a new home in the state they wanted to retire to and the PO pay for it.
March 23rd, 2009 15:14
What a joke !
March 23rd, 2009 16:57
yes i agree you;re going in the right direction ……..keep digging and look at their statements and #s their expenses
March 23rd, 2009 17:10
We had a PM move and found that was a good way to make money. PO bought his house he couldn’t sell, paid for him and his wife to each out (nice restaurants) every night, rented him a real nice house until he could purchase one. Then he transferred again (a little over 50 miles aways), PO helped him sell that house at a good profit for him, paid his moving expenses. He comes out about $10,000 ahead each time he moves. Too bad we couldn’t all benefit from that. Instead, we get our paychecks cut, and have to fight to make enough EMA to pay for our gas and oil changes (not tires, vehicle payment, insurance, etc).
March 23rd, 2009 18:14
Steal $10 and you go to jail. Steal millions and you get a bonus!
March 23rd, 2009 18:15
In hartord CT we had a Tour MDO move from California to a $800K house in the burbs. Within 2 years he moved back to Cali – his family didn’t like it here. He wanted to get the heck out of CT before his 2year retreat right was gone! What a waste!! BTY the house is still for sale BELOW WHAT THE PO PAID FOR IT!!
March 23rd, 2009 22:59
I hope the public realizes that bargaining unit employees, the ones who do the heavy lifting day after day, only get relocation if they are FORCED to leave their town and the commute is MORE than 50 miles more than their current commute. Then the USPS does NOT buy their house. They are stuck trying to sell it long distance. The workers get 5 days of leave and some of the mover’s fees reimbursed. And remember, if we voluntarily transfer, we lose our seniority, or right to retreat back, AND we get NO moving expenses of any kind reimbursed. Its the fat cats in management that get the better treatment. Don’t believe me? Its in the official handbooks and manuals.
March 24th, 2009 09:31
This is a surprise? We should be asking just where Potter is with his Mozilo loan? This has not been completely resolved and until it is we should continue to ask for his resignation. He has extrordinary bad judgment as revealed in this article. No—on second thought he simply is another DC MORON!
March 25th, 2009 10:10
RE: Archer Anders comment.
This is what all regular Joe employees have to do in the real, un-unionized world. AND, to your point, after the losses reported by the USPS in recent years, NOONE employed by the USPS (or any other company) should receive these kinds of wasteful benefits. If you can’t afford to move, don’t apply for or accept a transfer or job that requires it.
March 26th, 2009 13:01
What is your Pension Benefit???
John E. Potter
USPS Pension Benefit
$1,350,318
John E. Potter
CSRS Annuity
30 Years
$2,453,057
H. Glen Walker
FERS Annuity
2 Years
$ 60,702
Patrick R. Donahoe
CSRS Annuity
33 Years
$2,522,570
Anthony J. Vegliante
CSRS Annuity
31 Years
$2,171,701
Mary Anne Gibbons
FERS Annuity
23 Years
$ 815,758
March 27th, 2009 18:26
The Subcommittee has demanded a full accounting of senior executive windfalls and managerial relocation expenses.
PMG and BoG Chair requested Congressional authority to reduce the frequency of mail delivery, from 6 days to 5 days a week…The Subcommittee did not appear to be receptive to the request.
August 30th, 2009 18:01
Being a contractor and not a postal employee I find it funny that the USPS crys about losing 3 billion in the first quater,(notice how they shove those figures down our throats as if to make everyone feel bad) and they pay to relocate the same people around the country. One problem I see as an outsider working on the inside that just about anyone with a normal IQ could be a postmaster or a postal employee or contractor for that matter. So why does the USPS spends Billions on bonuses and moving people around who if was on the USPS payroll would be lucky to working at Wal-Mart. It amazes me how the everyone USPS over states its importance. Just shut and sell stamps, separte and deliver the mail! You are not special and you are not important. Stop making things seem bigger then they are. MPOO, MPS,PM, MOPS or whatever are replacable by any average joe who is willing to learn the job just as everyone else in the Post Office is. Look around jobs arent easy to find do you think some one else is willing to take your job and do it if your not. So stop whining handing out bonuses and paying to relocate people with highschool diplomas. We are not special and that means you. Other then a someone that repairs some special sort device, you are all expendable and you job could be learned by some one else in a month or else. Sorry just had to say it.
May 23rd, 2010 12:03
Remember this day,May 22 ,2010. It was the day the Post Office leaders in Honolulu took the ALOHA SPIRITaway from
Hawaii Post Office……………