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June 30, 2009
USPS filed their ON ROLLS AND PAID EMPLOYEE STATISTICS with the PRC recently. The results of this report indicates that the decline in the number of postal employees continues. Due to automation and the decline in volume the clerk craft is losing the greatest number of employees. From June 2008 to June 2009 the clerk craft lost approximately 8% of their employees – a loss of 15,374 employees.
Below is a sample of jobs/positions lost over the past year. The first figure represents the number of jobs/positions lost and the second figure represents the number of current employees within that craft or position:
CLERKS/NURSES: 15,374 – 182,592
CITY CARRIERS: 11,435 – 202,971
RURAL CARRIERS: 753 – 67,950
MAILHANDLERS: 2938 – 53,651
MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS: 385 – 8241
VEHICLE MAINTENANCE: 127 – 5299
MAINTENANCE: SERVICE: 303 – 39.807
GM/PM/INSTAL HEAD: 1816 – 23,285
SUPERVISORS/MANAGERS: 1902 – 29,997
TOTAL CAREER WORKFORCE: 35,977 – 621,929
Source: PRC
It is scary. The clerk craft is being destroyed. Almost half of the jobs lost were from the clerk craft. Maintenance seems to be doing pretty good and the MVS craft is really hurting. All in all the the number of union members is dwindling. We need our Unions to be strong and maybe look at joining forces. I know I just committed a crime by saying that. But it is just a thought.
Supervisors & Mangers (Who Cut 204b’s) They leave on Detail to get higher Retirerment Rank…. Bonus is Called “Cost of Living Increase..”
In the Post office it’s Not “What you know, but Who you Know”
I am a “Transional Employee.” 3 years Casual & Now on 2nd contract. I work 6 days week as tool for Supervisors. “Be lucky you have a job.” (deserve respect)
They Say….50+ hour weeks, every day 1 hr PIVOT & Skipped Lunches….. TE life
I know I will never get 3rd contract, but I am Worked like they are making ,me Quit. The Asian Superviors are the Worse & I am Filipino, 5 years wasted..
I have 2 weeks Vacation time that SUP’s. will never give Spot leave. Somehow
They play dumb when I bring the form for Doc appt’s or Spot leave, Scedule not made I Resedule or just Take it for the team???? Union help???
The Union Forces me to Crosscrafts & Do clerk Work, They gave up on TE’s.
I Got Uniform Alowance 2nd Contract……. (1st contract allowance??? Bonus?)
I can’t make Grevinces for everything they force me to do, because it will effect my chances down the Road. One Can go Insane on situation… HELP!
Now USPS will not give anyone chance to take postal exam. (no hiring PTF”S) I get ignored on saftey issues, & intimdated to do thing fast. BT time is start Street
Time. No flow chart . 5 hr Routes No Lunch… Will This Cycle ever End??? Who will help us? Bring on Auto flats & 5 day week delivery or Consolidate my office…
I Guess in the End this the life of Postal Temps. I Guess I will stick it out to get my 8 months of unemployment… LET MR GO!……..
I was terminated how soon after my termination will TSP be notified of my separation.
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[...] is that the US Post Office lost $3, 800,000,000 in FY 2009. Based on the latest numbers I could find (from June 30 of this year) that is a loss of just over $6100 per employee. Further, we are told [...]
I have just started as a TE and what I have seen so far is massive disorganization. It seems one hand does not know what the other is doing. The post office is so far in debt and to top it all off nobody seems to know or want to do anything about it. Cut Saturaday delivery is one method. Hire decent help and train them well. Hire enough people so other employees get time off when needed. The post office needs to take an interest in their employees and think of them as assets not something that has no family or any other form of life. Perhaps allow private enterprises take a shot at it. I know I could do better.
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I have read and I feel sorrow for those who have commented, mostly because I understand their concern….after 21yrs I too have felt ALL the reprecusions of the usps! There is NO Honor or Respect…for what you have given up or sacrificed! It is ALL in the numbers! Don’t be side tracked with how you have given up lunches or brks! Seriously! They do not care! Maybe at the moment but when the ball get’s rolling ……what ,huh…..I don’t know what you are talkin about!!!! Pivot? That’s a thing of the past!….I carried alot of folks I covered for many and everyone forgot who I was when it came down to it! This organization is goin down because they are not in sync with the people who do thw actual work! 21 yrs and I used to have a ray of hope in the system but I finally realized I was a sucker!!! No one had my back, but I had theirs! Supervisors and management! Do not think if you help them out, “THEY GOT YOU!” They DO NOT! They catch amnesia when you need them! I did all I could do to appease the usps and I was stabbed in the back…..by every one! It is ALL about the numbers! Do Not Trust Anyone in a supervisory position or management! Just don’t, they ARE NOT IN CHARGE! They have upper mgnt tellin them what to do they r nobody! And the Union has no pull!
the postal union is a joke – my husband was forced into retirement after 40 years – the postal union would not help him – just wait all you union creeps till you need help from the nalc – no dice – oh he worked for harwood heights, illinois