Comments on: USPS Offers $20,000 VER Incentive But Not To Craft

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:47:58 +0000

guz77…Didn’t realize spell check changed your name on my first post. After re-reading your post I realized I mis-read it. I guess when you got your retirement briefing they didn’t explain when you would get your first annuity check. I retired Dec 31, 2010 and as a FERs retiree I was told I would get my first partial check the end of Feb and it was right on time. If I had retired Jan 1, 2011, it would have been another month or the end of March. I think CSRS has a 3 day leeway. Like you I was prepared plus my wife is a nurse and not ready to retire so it was no problem for us.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:26:48 +0000

guzzle… The delay is not the fault of USPS. It’s OPM. All fed retirees are facing the same thing. A buddy I worked with took the $15K VER in Nov 2009 and it was Aug 2010 before he got his first full annuity. Those 30,000 who took that really backed up OPM. I retired Dec 31, 2010 and was told it would be 3 to 4 months. And I doubt it will be any better for for the management types who take the VER.

By: TINROSE

TINROSE — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:40:14 +0000

why don’t they keep their money and give us civil service people our years needed to go without paying the penalty!!! there can’t be too many left who are CSRS. I only have 2 years left, and the postal service switched right after I was hired to FERS.

By: Fed-Up

Fed-Up — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:17:24 +0000

fledgling: $20,000 is not a parting gift. Donahue is giving them back their own money that they would have earned had they stayed and did nothing. It’s all smoking mirrors.

By: Fed-Up

Fed-Up — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:14:47 +0000

Craft will be offered something in the future. The contract needs to be ratified before Donahue can begin hiring on the lower pay scale. He can’t do everything at once. My guess would be that we will hear something closer to the end of the fiscal year. They would need to hire non-career assistants, and then give them the test so they could move up to the newer lower pay scale. There would have been no other reason to hammer this out at negotiations. Trying to reduce the workforce by the numbers that he is citing would take us into our next contract, and the new scale would have to be negotiated again. Seems like a no-brainer to me, but them I ain’t one of them high educated managemet people.

By: Joanie molliesmom

Joanie molliesmom — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:22:42 +0000

craft employees get the shaft again. I know alot of employees who would take the 20,000 if it was offered to them. Management doesn’t need it.

By: guzz77

guzz77 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:06:57 +0000

why not use the 20 grand to pay the guys who already retired I’ve been retired since feb and have yet to receive a pension check what the hell how long do we have to wait,they said they are 3 months behind on processing retirements.I got my vacation pay they owed me within 3 weeks. I put in the retirement papers in the middle of dec.so its not like they didn’t have time to get things together. I was aware it might happnen cause they’re so screwed up so i planned for it .but I bet mgt’s pension will be on time.

By: Karl Pecora

Karl Pecora — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:13:47 +0000

Ha! Ha!…..what a joke?
I’m glad that I took my disability retirement last month. L was going to try to hold off a few more months thinking that USPS higher level @#$%-heads would do the right thing and offer up a decent incentive to CRAFT people….the horses that have been pulling the load for years and years, but; low-and-behold??!!!…..they screw the working class stiffs AGAIN!!
My suggestion to all of you short-timers and craft-people with a ways to go??….stay in as long as you can and squeeze every last cent out of that company because it is rightfully yours and those lazy fat-ass over-paid dead beats at the top can sweat out the rest of their worthless careers wondering when the axe will fall on them?!!
The nerve of those self-righteous bastards?!!….paying incentives to those who don’t deserve it and throwing chicken-feed to the ones who do!! I am so happy to be away from the communistic regime that the U.S Postal Service has become??….it really used to be a job that you could be proud to do and one that most civilized people would respect in general?…..now???……FAHGETTAABOUTTIT!!!

By: fledgling

fledgling — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:03:45 +0000

Just like management to give themselves a parting gift of $20K….Thought we were supposed to be cutting costs!

By: MrZip

MrZip — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:28:12 +0000

So let me get this straight. The PMG expects mgt. personnel who are at a 6 figures annual income or better to wait 20 months for a total of 20k? Ain’t gonna happen! My own station manager just laughed when I asked him if he was going to take the offer. These people aren’t going anywhere, and why should they? I’ll believe the final tally when it is posted on this site and not anywhere else. This “incentive” just proves what alot of people have been saying on these sites, that mgt. protects their own. They made a ludicrous offer because they want to keep that 1:7 ratio that Darrell Issa has been complaining about. As I have stated before, we’re all protected by civil service laws and VA laws, and can’t be RIFted (still waiting for replies on this to prove I’m wrong). Hey Issa, are you clueless? Do you have any idea how many bosses are standing around my office with their hands in their pockets? One 6 figure guy is out doing street supervision for crimany sakes!!! 100K to make sure I have my seat belt on????? What’s it going to take to wake you up, a 1:5 or 1:4 ratio? Gimme a break, or better yet, give me that 20K in one payment and my 35 year carrier career will come to an end tomorrow.