In Letter to Chairman of the USPS Board of Governors, Hochul Calls for Cap On Salaries & Bonuses for Postmaster General and Executives, While Local Processing Facility Remains In Jeopardy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Kathy Hochul today announced plans to introduce legislation limiting compensation for executive officers of the United States Postal Service to the same level of pay as the President’s Cabinet.
“American families all over this country are struggling to get by, the William Street Processing Center in Downtown Buffalo is in danger of shutting down, and 700 postal employees in Western New York are at risk of losing their jobs, but for some reason we are still providing the Postmaster General and other executive officers at the U.S. Postal Service with bonuses and salaries greater than that provided to the Secretary of Defense” said Congresswoman Hochul. “In these tough economic times, Western New Yorkers are making necessary sacrifices and cutting back, and they expect their public servants to do the same.”
In 2006, a law was enacted providing senior officers of the USPS with salaries up to 120% of the Vice President’s salary, as well as authorizing bonuses for these postal executives if approved by the Postal Service Board of Governors.
Congresswoman Hochul’s legislation would reinstate the longstanding policy of paying the Postmaster General and other USPS executives at the same level of pay as the President’s Cabinet ($199,700 in FY2012). Additionally, this bill would prohibit the issuance of bonuses to USPS executive officers in years that the Postal Service closes any retail or processing facility, such as the William Street Area Mail Processing Facility in Buffalo.
Hochul added, “The Postal Service cannot make the argument that they need to cuts costs and let go hard-working postal workers when their own management team continues to rake in bonuses and make more than the President’s Cabinet. The jobs of over 700 Western New Yorkers and thousands of Americans across this country are worth more than bonuses for a handful of individuals at the United States Postal Service.”
Congresswoman Hochul has already written Thurgood Marshall, Jr., Chairman of the United States Postal Service Board of Governors, urging him to limit the compensation for the Postmaster General and other members of the USPS executive management team, while processing facilities across the nation are in danger of shutting down. A copy of the letter sent to Chairman Marshall can be found here (PDF).
I work at Miami Beach post office.
There are five managers in the building for 7 clerks and about 40 letter carriers who are out of the building delivering mail.
Postmaster makes over 100K
Manager makes over 80K.
Three supervisors making over 70K each
Thats over 400K dollars to watch 7 clerks in the building.
By the time the letter carriers return there may be two managers to welcome them.
Talk about waste of postal revenue!
Crying poverty and yet overpaying themselves…..USPS is a public service yet it is currently being run like the Mafia. Anyone who uses the mail or receives mail should pat the congresswoman on the back. She has some much needed common sense.
No bonuses should be given when a company or USPS is loosing money.
Bonuses are supposed to be incentives to do what is proper and prosper.
Bonuses should not be given for cutting expenses. They should be given for increasing revenue.
We are asked every week to turn in leads to increase revenue (we are not offered any bonuses), that really is not our job, carriers are to deliver. The sales personnel should be doing their job, not asking the carriers to do it for them. Maybe they need to get out and run a route now and then to look for ways to increase revenue. Or maybe they should give carriers a bonus for increasing revenue.
Way to go Ms. Hochul!!!!! finally someone using common sense!