MAIL VOLUME CONTINUES TO DECLINE
CFO CORBETT REPORTS ON SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Despite a year-to-date (YTD) reduction of 16 million workhours compared to last year, the Postal Service experienced operating costs $100 million above plan in quarter 2 (Jan. 1 to March 31) — ending the quarter with a YTD net loss of $2.6 billion.
Total mail volume in quarter 2 continued to decline, falling more than 500 million pieces compared to the same period last year, according to Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Joe Corbett. Although Package Services and Standard Mail volumes increased modestly, the increase was not sufficient to offset the loss of revenue from reduced First-Class Mail volumes.
“Electronic diversion of First-Class Mail continues to be the primary cause of our revenue shortfall,” reports Corbett in his latest “Dollars and ¢hange” quarterly video review of USPS finances. And that decline in First-Class Mail volume is expected to continue.
To help the Postal Service become a leaner, faster, smarter organization, Corbett encourages employees to help control expenses by looking for ways to improve efficiencies. “It’s all about making smarter decisions based on reliable data to build solid processes,” he says. “When we do that, the savings will come naturally.”
If the USPS cared at all about the decline in mail volume the managers and supervisors should be out in the field talking to the people, generating leads and creating stategies with aspects of helping the USPS survive. They should not be in their office text messaging, at the mall, sneaking around on their spouses when they are on the clock, and scheming on how they can harass an employee enough to drive them to resign or quit or to seek psychiatric attention. WHO IS LISTENING?
Do you know how much money the USPS is losing on wrongful and frivolous discipline and terminations, When an employee is wrongfully terminated they have to pay the T-6, RCA, and the clerk, resulting more than likely in overtime. There are too many chiefs and not enough indians. The management can not justify their work load. They create ficticious work by harassing loyal employees and then writing them up. Discipline is not issued correctly because they disregard the rights of the employee. When the fired return back to work the USPS then majority of the time have to dispense the back pay. WHAT A WASTE! What authentic work is management really doing? The clerks know how to process the mail. The carriers know how to deliver the mail. The window clerks have that ridiculous script that they have to repeat to the customers memorized and rememorized. Management is there just to satisfy an unhappy patron. If the big wigs just get from behind their desks and come down off their high horses they just may begin to recognize the waste that is and will result in the demise of the USPS.
The PO isn’t interested in controlling costs to offset revenue from declining first class mail. Every larger PO apparently has a group of loafers, idlers and drones called “In-Plant Support.” They get weekends off by detail, not by seniority. I see one daily who walks about with a clip board and has extensive “visiting” route. They do and inflict all manner of BS including intentionally placing trays of mail in wrong place, then try to blame on mail processors. It’s part of a management plan to stress employees out so as to “encourage” them to quit. Motto of In-Plant Support zero operators is “Do nothing, rest afterwards.” Two members of Congress I contacted don’t care about this waste, probably over $100 million per annum nationwide!!!!!!!!
I wish it would decline somewhat at my PO. I ‘ve worked there for 25 yrs. and usually it declines while vacation time starts but everyday has been the same more mail., more ot
SO why don’t we try a new product? At least new to the PO. That would be a postal bank. We should butt heads with the big ones, Come on lets get to the point of becoming to big to fail.