{"id":9312,"date":"2014-12-05T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2014-12-05T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:42:18","slug":"oig-recommends-that-usps-compensate-city-carriers-in-the-same-manner-as-rural-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/05\/oig-recommends-that-usps-compensate-city-carriers-in-the-same-manner-as-rural-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"OIG Recommends That USPS Compensate City Carriers In The Same Manner As Rural Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"

OIG Management Advisory – City Carrier Management and Compensation<\/strong><\/p>\n

12.05.14 – The USPS OIG’s office released a management advisory today that all city and rural carriers need to read. \"OIG<\/a><\/p>\n

Basically the report advises that “…the Postal Service is under severe financial pressure and needs to find ways to increase (carrier) efficiency and reduce costs.” The OIG says that “…by developing a compensation system for city carriers based on time standards for specific tasks rather than hours worked would allow management to reduce supervisory costs, grievance payouts, and administrative costs, while increasing overall efficiency. Further, such changes could reduce compensation costs by at least $1.3 billion in FY 2015.”<\/p>\n

The OIG advisory, in part, also states the following:<\/p>\n

In addition to the higher overall administrative and compensation costs associated with city carriers, there is little incentive for carriers to be more productive and finish routes faster because they are paid hourly. Because of changes in the Postal Service\u2019s business environment, including an increase in the number of package deliveries and the adjustment of delivery routes, the Postal Service has an increasing need for carrier efficiency.<\/em><\/p>\n

by developing a compensation system for city carriers based on time standards for specific tasks rather than hours worked would allow management to reduce supervisory costs, grievance payouts, and administrative costs, while increasing overall efficiency. Paying city carriers hourly results into longer workhours; whereas, a different compensation system could incentivize higher productivity. Therefore, such changes could reduce compensation costs by at least $1.3 billion in FY 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

In FY 2013, city carriers averaged 58 cents (per delivery point) in compensation, whereas rural carriers averaged 49 cents.In addition, the average hourly rate was $42.77 for city carriers while rural carriers averaged $35.06. The compensation costs will continue to be higher for city carriers in FY 2015, when they will be paid about 54 cents per delivery compared to 49 cents for rural carriers. Using this 5 cent cost difference, we determined the Postal Service could save at least $1.3 billion in FY 2015 if city carriers were compensated in the same way as rural carriers.<\/em><\/p>\n

You may read the full report here<\/a> <\/strong>(PDF).<\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE: PEN cannot answer questions regarding this OIG report or USPS pay.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OIG Management Advisory – City Carrier Management and Compensation 12.05.14 – The USPS OIG’s office released a management advisory today that all city and rural carriers need to read. Basically the report advises that “…the Postal Service is under severe financial pressure and needs to find ways to increase (carrier) efficiency and reduce costs.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}