USPS Positioned for a strong finish in FY 2010

COO-PatrickDonahoe

July 21, 2010

Positioned for a strong finish in FY 2010:
USPS focuses on beginning strong in FY 2011

To finish the year strong — and to position USPS for a strong beginning in fiscal year 2011 — employees must continue to focus on controlling workhours and operating expenses without hurting service, according to DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe.

Preliminary quarter 3 figures through May show total mail volume continues to decline — 5.1 percent below the same period last year (SPLY). The good news is that employees have done a great job in adjusting workhours to match workloads. The reduction in workhours (6.8 percent below SPLY) is outpacing the decline in mail volumes.

Reviewing a number of cost-reduction opportunities in this week’s Field Updates segment, Donahoe thanks employees for their tremendous efforts.

With renewed efforts to control overtime, consolidate routes and facilities and manage the assignments of non-career employees, Donahoe says USPS will remain on track to finish strong in FY 2010.

PEN Ed:  Mr. Donahoe: I believe controlling workhours and operating expenses is a management function. If you meant to say ‘you employees need to cram 9 hours work into 8 hours to help our bottomline’ – then I could understand your statement much better. Seriously, work compliment and operating expenses are not under the control of craft employees. Many are already pushed to complete their daily work within the 8 hours provided.

One Response to "USPS Positioned for a strong finish in FY 2010"

  1. I love PEN Ed:’s notes, because it’s so true. They’re all skunks and they word it as if we believe it. But our contract is coming up so let’s see how much they reward us…. Anyway I’d like to make this point: USPS is like “the cart before the horse”. There’s a chain of bottom feeding. If USPS was gone so would be the unions, the Regulatory Commission, Congressional committees and sub-committees.. the list goes on and on. Each of these has a vested interest in me, the letter carrier, for their survival or their demise. I am the “bottom”, the last human to hand that piece of mail to my customer. As much as I know my services are necessary, and crucial, really crucial (as in cross selling), I know that all the unions, the PRC, the Congress see it as a “let’s play compromise” because they want their jobs as much as I need mine. And I need mine. And I am the face of USPS. Eight hours pay for eight hours work… period.

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