USPS work force down 5.4% compared to last year
The US Postal Service has reduced its career complement by 36,326 employees in the last twelve months, a reduction of 5.4%. The clerk craft took the biggest hit, losing 15,374 employees, or -7.7%. The larger city carrier craft lost 11,435 positions, or -5.3%. Mail handlers were down 2,938, or -5.2%. Rural carriers had the smallest decline, 753 jobs, or -1.1%. Managers and supervisors lost 1,902 jobs, or -6%, Headquarters is down 153 or -5.3%, while the Area offices lost 173, or -13.3%.
(Source: On Rolls and Paid Employee report filed by USPS with the PRC. All numbers reflect actual on rolls complement, not authorized staffing.)
June 30th, 2009 06:51
I find it hard to bekieve that management is down that much. I don’t know about anyone else, but i see more management walking around our office and city, than i have ever seen before.
June 30th, 2009 07:33
they talk about customer service being important, long lines, late delivery, more useless supervisor , is what they mean.
June 30th, 2009 08:34
THEY SAID THEY LOST THE JOBS NOT THE PEOPLR
June 30th, 2009 08:35
THEY SAID THEY LOST THE JOBS NOT THE PEOPLE
June 30th, 2009 09:05
Settle down Mike, on rolls complement means people not jobs.
June 30th, 2009 09:52
These numbers mean nothing as long as we have brain dead management to run the place. Not one area of the country has good management..period..Nothing but yes sir to the higher ups who dont work in the area they boss and control.
What a freaking mess.
June 30th, 2009 13:53
It’s time to bite the bullet and do the things that should have been accomplished years ago. Cut management drastically and reduce their duties to essential processes only. It’s funny how my delivery office can function each Saturday with one third of our weekday management staff, even though we’re performing the same tasks as weekdays. The average carrier has nearly twenty years on the job. We don’t need babysitters, especially those who know much less about our job than we do. Give early outs. Enough said. Just get it done. Eliminate Saturday delivery for basic mail. Emphasize that Express Mail will still be available, and possibly provide business hold out mail, Priority Mail and parcel delivery on the weekends. This can be done with skeleton staff as we’ve done numerous times on holidays. This next one is so obvious but may take regulation changes. There are vast park and loop delivery areas that could easily be converted to mounted delivery. Sorry, it has to be done. The P.O. could even pay for nice boxes, say four or five on a post, and still come out way ahead. If marketing earns their pay and puts the right spin on this, it could go smoothly. These are just a few ideas for starters. There are also ways the P.O. can gather additional revenue, but these cost cutters are a good beginning.
June 30th, 2009 17:02
you mean early outs with incentives…and buy-outs…like 5 years of service added on to your current years of service
csrs is ready to go…..just throw us a bone
June 30th, 2009 18:15
It seems to me that the carriers who are crying the loudest about there being too many bosses are the ones who are continuously caught hours ahead of where they are supposed to be, even after filling out a 3996 for overtime. Or they are caught right in the act of taking lunches of an hour or more. Evaluated routes is the only way to go with as many people milking the clock as there are.
June 30th, 2009 19:04
The bottom line is that one day the USPS will be privatized. That is where management is taking us. They are shooting themselves in their feet. But I hope that someday we get smart and intelligent people to lead the USPS. There is no leadership, just wasteful spending…I suppose as long they get a fat check everything else can go to hell.
June 30th, 2009 19:12
Our office has over 50 city carriers, around 18 rural carriers and on most days 4-5 supervisors . yet we have barely 4-5 clerks to distribute and work all the mail and parcels. Get rid of two supervisors and gain two clerks and the process improves greatly. I am to the point where I am ready to agree on evaluated routes if the process is fair. We don’t have many carriers who milk the clock but the ones who do ruin it for the ones who are giving a fair days work. I didn’t say who run their routes off they just are honest in their breaks, lunch time and not using the office time as a social gathering each day. I wrote an article several years ago about 8 hours work for 8 hours of pay and you would have thought I cut some carriers testicles off the way the whined and cried. We have a good job with good pay and currently pretty good benefits. With the job situation nation wide there are hundreds if not thousands who would love to give that fair days work. I will also admit that being a 29 yr carrier and under CSRS you give me an incentive bonus and no penalty and I, like hundreds of others would go. The Post Office is too stupid to do the smart thing and stop saturday delivery. Lets waste some more money on football filed sized machines to tear up flats (AKA customer dis-service) or how about those wonderful safety messages on our scanners. Sure glad they are paying some moron to think those up. And lets not forget MSP points that half the time take forever to scan. They gave us T-Shirts to wear on wednesdays to promote using priority boxes (That is unless you are a big guy like me and they didn’t buy your size). We get the shirts but what we really could use are better wheels on the tubs that actually roll so you don’t dump your mail as you are leaving to load. DPS should be cased on all walking routes and business routes. It is more efficient for the walking routes and it looks more professional on business routes. Okay I’ll get off my soapbox. Maybe the PostOffice can —–well I better not say that.
June 30th, 2009 19:55
The US Postal Service has reduced its career complement by 36,326 employees.
How many Contractors has the Postal Service hired during this time frame and how much work was outsourced?
June 30th, 2009 22:56
The loss of people in management is most likely due to managers who do not fit the proper profile for the new PO management style….Gestapo management. If you can’t lay rural carriers off, well, produce, one way or another, cause to fire them.
Sahagan
July 23rd, 2009 22:28
5-DAY WK, A POWER-PLAY AGAINST EMPLOYMENT
No 6th day, no need for PTFs.
Less Hiring.
Less Benefits.
Stagnate Employeer Costs.
Thems trying to cut the flow of fresh water from the pond. What happens then? It stagnates and starts to stink.
August 4th, 2009 06:56
Yes, managment is walking around doing nothing except making sure the few carriers still working with the postal service are treated bad. They are basically required to run their routes. Otherwise it is almost never possible to finish the route in regular time.
It does not matter to management how old the carriers are or what kind of health issues they have already due to their job. The answer they get when bringing issues like that up is well you can find yourself another job if you don’t like it.
Where is the union? Why are they not in the offices reporting what is going on and how the carriers are treated????????????
August 8th, 2009 06:11
Listen here. . .there are slugs and sand baggers at EVERY level of the Postal Service. Yes, I’m including management, unions and bargaining unit employees. When you are so quick to slam the idiots in management, don’t forget where they all got their start–as a craft employee.
August 22nd, 2009 20:22
WHY AREN’T THE UNIONS ARGUING THE FACT THAT THERE IS A RATIO OF 1 BOSS PER 8 EMPLOYEES AND COUNTLESS OTHER USELESS POSTIONS THAT DON’T MOVE THE MAIL?????
August 23rd, 2009 03:20
Today I was hurting myself trying to do the job. I am a mailhandler and we were staffed, there were 3 managers to every 9 mailhandlers. Something wrong with this.
August 23rd, 2009 03:29
i just dont understand why this is not being addressed. I work on the busiest dock in phx. and never do we use management to make decisions. Now with this “crisis” we need 750000 usd a year standing around “making sure things run smooth”.
I see it like this…Since this “crisis” we have been lying about cancellations. Adding new managers and losing craft employees.
Does it really take 5 managers to be on site to make decisions that any group leader can answer?
August 23rd, 2009 03:37
Tony Stromboni
You just in one post, told why the post office is in dire staits.
Thank you
August 23rd, 2009 03:53
they were the slackers