NY REP. ENGEL SAYS POST OFFICE NEEDS OVERHAUL NOT U-HAULS

11/18/11

Washington, DC — Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-17) issued the following statement condemning the U.S. Postal Service for singling out post offices for closure, and considering slashing hundreds of thousands of jobs, while failing to identify root causes for their massive debt.

“I am fed up with the continued bumbling from the Postal Service who are pinning their financial woes on seniors and working families in New York, and around the nation, rather than looking at the real reasons why they have lost money. They argue locations targeted for closure have lost money, but for a department awash in billions of dollars in red ink, it is logical to assume there are few post offices actually making money nationwide. The people of the Bronx, Rockland and Westchester Counties rely on their neighborhood Post Offices and it will be a hardship for many residents who are not able to easily travel to other locations.

“I find it puzzling that their plan to correct their financial woes is to make access to post offices more difficult and inconvenient. They are charging more for services, but make them less accessible. And they wonder why they continually lose business. This is a business plan designed for failure. If they wish to essentially go out of business, they risk abandoning many of their most loyal and dependant customers.

“The Post Office needs to find ways to be more efficient, not be more secluded. It needs to waste less, not deliver less often. It needs to be more responsive to the people, not shutter their windows and move out of town. I want the Post Office to succeed, and for the American people to have ample access to facilities, but I need to see that the Post Office is serious about correcting their own flaws.”

7 Responses to "NY REP. ENGEL SAYS POST OFFICE NEEDS OVERHAUL NOT U-HAULS"

  1. These guys are right, how about an independent agency looks at managment for cuts instead of just attaacking workers unions and customers???

  2. I have worked for the USPS for almost 20 years now and have seen middlemgmnt, not once, ever reduce. Yet they say they shut down facilities in Kilmer, Edison NJ and other plants. They just shuffle the jobs and managers land in other offices. Also, and this ones not popular but accurate to the letter- this is another case where ‘affirmative action’ fails, has failed in practice, and continues to fail. The USPS, whether I as an employee maintain employment, needs to succeed. Stop the insanity of pre-funding the future retirees and we’ll survive another day.

  3. I totally agree with Coley and John in that this group of people that are known as managers are about to put us out of business. An MDO was recently walked out of a USPS facility here in Houston because an outside the loop entity was brought in to find out what the problem was at this facility. In the end they found that 10 out of 12 supervisors were either suburban neighbors, church members or personal (and I do mean personal) friends with this MDO. Management is killing us, especially that $800,000.00 imbecile that we have for a postmaster. He thinks that less customers will help us progress in meeting our financial obligations.

    I would hope that U.S. Representative Engel would review and co-sponsor the bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (S. 1853 ) because at this time it seems to be the clearest, most logical way to a prosperous future for the USPS.

  4. Coley McDonough is exactly right. Incompetent girlfriends who become your boss is what is killing us in Louisville, KY.

  5. I have worked as a carrier for 32 years. The Post Office is,at least in Boston,infested with nepotism and old boy/girl network at management level,promoting their incompetent spawn or friends,ONLY an outside group can make an evaluation of what to cut.In the stations the workflow is handled by fewer workers and line supervisors while the ranks of paperproducing wellpaid middlemananagement driftwood seem to stay current,they are even bringing back a certain “retired” malignant dwarf to help them.ONLY an outside independent EYE can fix this place

  6. AMEN!!! Finally, someone in Congress understands what employees have known all along!!!!!! I love NY!!

  7. Hon. U.S. Representative Engel, I completely agree with what you have said above. In spite of long lines at most post offices, it is represented that many of them are not making enough money. So, to answer your questions, perhaps another expert but neutral gov’t investigation agency should be ask to take a look. To be fair, perhaps it should be be considered: competition to provide a service to the public is a different mind set than simply offering a public service. Still, when offering a public service, consideration for the real needs of the public must be a priority!

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