{"id":32539,"date":"2022-08-03T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=32539"},"modified":"2022-08-03T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:15:01","slug":"usps-has-no-reason-to-have-630000-employees-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2022\/08\/03\/usps-has-no-reason-to-have-630000-employees-yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Has No Reason to Have 630,000 Employees – Yeah, right"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following article comes to us from 24\/7 Wall Street<\/a> – written by Douglas A. McIntyre.<\/p>\n

August 03, 2022 – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has 630,000 employees and 34,000 locations. It bills itself as one of America\u2019s largest employers, as if it were Walmart or Amazon. Frankly, it has tens of thousands of workers it does not need and should not have. The USPS is a product of late 20th-century mail and package delivery that currently loses money.<\/p>\n

In the most recently reported quarter, USPS revenue was $19.8 billion. Its net loss was $539 million. The room for improvement should come with a decision to have fewer employees and many fewer offices. It is hard to imagine why the number of locations is so large, particularly because so many are in very small towns, with populations sometimes only in the thousands.<\/p>\n

This is the year of the layoff, both in the United States and in other developed countries. A coming recession (if it is not already here) has caused even the largest public corporations to cut staff. And many of these have billions of dollars on their balance sheets and could go through several years at current staffing levels.<\/p>\n

However, these companies have decided to pursue margins at the cost of people. That is an unfortunate reality. The USPS needs to follow the lead of corporate America and cut staff before it piles up more losses.<\/p>\n

PEN response below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I find the above article very close to being totally asinine. Mr. McIntyre says, “USPS needs to follow the lead of corporate America and cut staff before it piles up more losses” – and just how do you suggest they do that Douglas? USPS cut the number of their employees for many years due to the loss of first-class mail from technology (email, etc.). Now, due to this pandemic, they’re being forced to hire more and more employees. Why? Because you, and the remainder of the nation, want to shop from home since COVID came about. You’re ordering your products, gifts, and what-nots online instead of going to your local mall or outlet to purchase these items in person. A large percentage of your purchases are now being delivered to your home by USPS letter carriers.<\/p>\n

USPS, traditionally, has not been a parcel delivery company. Yes, they did deliver parcels – but the vast majority of their deliveries was letter mail, flats, and magazines. When this tsunami of parcel deliveries started after COVID letter carriers, and clerks, were actually taken by surprise…as well as USPS. Increasing a letter carriers’ parcels by 100-500% or more is naturally going to increase their street time spent on delivery – there just isn’t any way around that. Yes, USPS could form a parcel delivery only branch, but that would add even more employees. As long as you keep ordering products to be delivered to your home there is a good possibility that your mail will be delivered late.<\/p>\n

The media, and politicians, are complaining about late mail – complaining about missing or late ballots – complaining about too many employees – complaining that USPS isn’t changing to EV vehicles quickly enough. None of these understand the daily routine of USPS and its’ employees at all. You CANNOT manage a company as large as USPS by standing on the sidelines barking demands.<\/p>\n

Yes, USPS will eventually come close to having an EV fleet of delivery vehicles…BUT, it will take time.<\/p>\n

You go to Walmart, you go to the movies, you go have your wine or beer at your favorite bar, you go here and there to live an enjoyable life…SO, GET THE HELL OUT OF THE HOUSE AND VOTE AT YOUR LOCAL POLLING PLACE.<\/p>\n

Rick Owens
\nPostalEmployeeNetwork.com<\/p>\n