Action Plan for the Future of the U.S. Postal Service
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Postmaster General John E. Potter to give briefing
What:
Postmaster General John E. (Jack) Potter is hosting a conference to address the future of the U.S. Postal Service and to announce new business model
Who:
John E. Potter, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer
Louis J. Giuliano, Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Postal Service
Meldon J. Wolfgang, Partner/Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Thomas Dohrmann, Principal, McKinsey & Company
When:
Tuesday, March 2
9 a.m. – 12 noon
Welcome: Chairman Giuliano
Introductory Remarks: PMG Potter
Projecting U.S. Mail Volumes to 2020: Mr. Wolfgang
Options for a Changing Environment: Mr. Dohrmann
Keynote Presentation: PMG Potter
Break
Panel Discussion with Potter, Giuliano, Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Patrick R. Donahoe, Deputy Postmaster General and COO and Robert F. Bernstock, President, Mailing and Shipping Services
Where:
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Conference Center
429 L’Enfant Plaza SW
Washington DC 20024-2111
Background: The Postal Service is facing serious and substantial challenges: declining mail volume, increased use of the Internet for bill payment and presentment, a lingering recession and legislative constraints on how and when we can close Post Offices or what types of products we can sell at retail.
After four months of intense research and discussion, the Postal Service will announce an action plan to address these concerns, as well as a number of steps necessary to close a substantial gap by the year 2020.
The Postal Service has decided on a future path that calls for greater business model flexibility and changes to the way it does business.
February 24th, 2010 07:09
One can only pray that the new plan completely does away with political correctness in the USPS. Hire people based on their productive merits, not on their gender, race, creed, etc.
Establish rock-solid job descriptions and eliminate perpetual light-duty cases. If you can’t do the job you were hired in to do, you are gone. This is a business, not the welfare office. Thin the ranks of triplicate middle management with a fine-toothed comb. You don’t need three people with clip-boards, watching one person work. You certainly don’t need the wasteful social spending and Wall Street type of bonuses, as seen from upper management. Make the necessary changes or go down like the Titanic.
February 24th, 2010 09:38
A study just released by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General (OIG)
shows that the current system of funding the Postal Service’s Civil Service Retirement
System pension responsibility is inequitable and has resulted in the Postal Service
overpaying $75 billion to the pension fund.
The question is why hasn’t the PMG addressed this issue?
It seems like he wants it to look like the USPS is in worse shape than it really is so he can use this in getting 5 day delivery and dealing with the contracts. Rolando and the other presidents should draw attention to Potter’s non-response.
February 24th, 2010 10:08
The plan will be the same as always. Reduce plants, reduce service, reduce delivery days, and reduce craft employees. In addition we will increase upper management, and require lower management to fill out more daily reports so that the upper management increase can be justified. Perhaps someone will really think outsie of the box, and come up with an idea like selling snowcones in the lobby.
February 24th, 2010 12:00
Let’s get away from 5 day del. and go after the officiers that can’t seem to know how to del. mail and start listening to the people that make a living with the mail service that put thier hands on it and get rid of the managers that never del. mail before. so far what Potter has done has not worked. Let’s start with him and fire him and get someone that can and will change this mess around. There is a lot of great workers that work for USPO and proud of it and it is time to bring them to the fore front.
February 24th, 2010 13:29
Look out here it comes, another train heading down the track too fast and in the wrong direction! Potter needs to go.
February 24th, 2010 13:34
The PMG and his hyperbole will be spouted upon deaf ears. Despotic District Managers and Postmasters are ruining the PO. I am a 28 year veteran and am sick and tired of the PMG (see his memo on the national agreement is our word/bond), telling his subordinates one thing and they do the complete opposite…. I feel that the Unions should buy the place, keep the universal mandate, and get rid of all the dead weight (MANAGERS). PMG Runyon had it right: “If you don’t touch the mail, facilitate its processing, distribution, and delivery, you do not need to be in the employ of the USPS.” Hard working craft employees are keeping the service alive… Those entrusted with its management are ruining it. Offer me an incentivized early out and I’m gone!
February 24th, 2010 14:28
i agree with all the comments so far . everyone that has commented must be employed by usps.management runs the usps like they are untouchable and they are pushing the usps out of business.i think they want to privatize and they must feel the private company that takes. over will hire the current managers to run the business.what the postal service needs is recent college grads with new ideas to fix i mean save the usps
February 24th, 2010 16:18
You get what you pay for, I have always learned the P.O is and always, be the force that can make it happen? YOU LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES but it will cost. Smith
February 24th, 2010 18:29
Without question delivery should be Monday,Wednesday,and Friday. They must modify the Postal Reorganization Act, to eliminate Collective Bargaining for wages and benefits. Employees should receive whatever equivalent grades for federal employees are. COLA’s, pay increases, should be the same as the feds. Arbitration should be eliminated for all grievances with the exception of adverse actions. Close post offices where the expenses do not equal the offices revenue. Stamps by Mail. This is the new model!!
February 24th, 2010 22:40
Hey longislandlarry, maybe they should have a guy pounding a drum and another guy with a whip and have all the employees in chains like the good old roman days!
February 25th, 2010 03:28
I agree that the 75 million in overpayment needs to be addressed.
The problems we are facing folks, are technological in nature.
As the postal service has automated, this has impacted the labor force.
The focus of our work should not be profit motive.
This is a service created for the American public.
Hence, The monopoly of 1rst class mail is in our domain.
What we don’t need is another top-heavy government
agency.
February 26th, 2010 21:53
January’s monetary awards:
Lump Sum Awards: SUPV $983,473, AREA $366,862, HQ $1,288,766
Merit Bonus Payments: SUPV $5,638,109, PAT $3,224,815, ADM $4,225,939, AREA $605,634, HQ $606,241
PCES Awards: AREA $10,872, HQ $13,769
SPOT Awards: PM $34,767, SUPV $35,999. CLK $21,976, CITY $19,178, PAT $19,136, REGIONS $264,461, HQ $27,236
PMG/VP Awards: IS/IG $57,955, ADM $27,000, PROT $21,000, HQ $28,600
TEAM Awards: HQ $13,071
February 27th, 2010 13:57
hey, not to be picky, mike, but the number is 75 BILLION
February 27th, 2010 14:42
HUH? I am a supervisor and I did not get a BONUS. I got a 3% pay increase for pay for performance so where is my $5,638,109 Merit Bonus or even my $983,473 lump sum? Every employee (with their overtime) makes more money than I do. You guys got more in cost of living increases than my pay increase. Don’t be miss-led by seenoevil. These are totals devideded among thousands of people. My lump sum award was $198.00 (before taxes). Any carrier or clerk want to try to go on vacation for that amount of money? We had a couple od large pizzas and rented a couple of movies from my great wealth. If we want the US Postal Service to continue, we just all need to do our jobs the best we can every day.
March 1st, 2010 17:02
HOW TO SAVE THE USPS
Put a 1 or 2 cents stamp on e-mails. Use that money to subsidize the USPS.
March 3rd, 2010 08:13
We didn’t like it when AIG and B of A were giving bonuses with our money, so, why should we like is when the deep in red ink USPS is giving bonuses while holding their hand out and looking to cut services? Worst run corporation in America. Fire Potter and all his cronys.