Comments about ‘U.S. Postal Service plans $1 billion in cost cutting’

Are they brain dead?????? 39 % raises for upper management?? Do they sort or deliver any mail?

EARLY OUT FOR EMPLOYEES 55 AND OLDER WITH 30 YEARS OR MORE,HELLO.WAKE UP.WITH INSENTIVE 6 MOS.SALARIE.TIME TO GO SMELL THE ROSES....

Will Potter forego his $72,000 a year raise awarded in May 2007 retroactive to January 2007 by the board of Postal Governors to show his sincerity in cutting costs?

HELLO - It's not an EARLY OUT if you are already at the age and years required to go. Those people can leave at anytime. They need to give the early out to people that aren't at the age and year requirment yet but meet the age and years worked to get a VERA, which is 50 years old with at least 20 years of service or 25 years of service and any age. Those are the people that they need to target - The others can leave already, they choose not to!

As a Postal employee with 25 years of service, I think that 5 day delivery would reduce costs without sacrificing service. Residential delivery really doesn't care if they get mail on Saturday or not. Most businesses are closed and don't get delivery anyway. The Postal Service would no longer need T-6's (if you work for the Post Office, you know what I mean) and it would mean a immediate reduction in cost due to vehicles being parked instead of being used. Another option would be evauluated routes for City carriers, but this would never happen due to the fact it would basically take away one of the biggest bargaining chips the unions have - - that being overtime...........

This job is getting more and more harder for the carriers.They tell us what time to leave what time to get back we deliver parcels but they tell us that they dont count it does not take no time. DUH.It is nothing like you see on tv.Every minute is timed.Only us (the carriers) have time limits for everything,we got 1.2 percent raise for 4 years in the rain,sleet,snow it is terrible.All they want is more more more.

I'd like to ad to Glen's points. It's so obvious... and you also have the other benefits... except for leave issues, you always have the regular on the regular routes (more accountability , beter end product for custumers) and no more damage control after your day off. Plus, you can then reduce carrier work force by one sixth to one tenth ,depending on who's cruching the numbers. Then charge a premium for optional sat delivery.

Offer a buyout to all eligible employees of (6) months pay and watch the door fly open. Something will have to give this year the increase in May will not solve anything.

the fuel savings...I meant to mention the fuel

Get rid of casuals

The Post Office has mastered sorting letters but in cetain districts it lags way behind its competitors in sorting parcels; with outdated machines that sort small parcels and other machines that destroy a good percentage of larger parcels in the process. Not to mention the fact that a huge amount of manhours are spent sorting small to medium to large parcels by hand the same way Ben Franklin did when he was Postmaster General some 235 years ago. The Post Office is labor/cost intensive by design.

Why not a 5 day work week for carriers. It
would save millions in fuel costs alone.Use PTf's on saturday to case mail for monday.

Close windows on saturdays.. we have enough contract stations out there to cover us.

Excess managers/ We are overstaffed with these people. they don not make us any money, carriers and clerks who move mail make money for the post office.

Early out no penalty for civil service employees with severance pay.

It's true, mail carriers are NOT machines.....we do work hard ,but, we do get paid well considering how many of us do Not have college degrees. We have something better, experience! If you know your job, your customers, and your responsibilites to your employer, you have it made..How many jobs out there pay sick leave, weeks of earned vacation, and generous wages..Its up to each individual to live within their means...I dont understand why so many of us complain so much when there is someone out there that is so much worse off.

lionhart
Now no more casual only TE.
Postal workerant You right about that. Cut little gave raise to other???

"Why not a 5 day work week for carriers. It
would save millions in fuel costs alone.Use PTf's on saturday to case mail for monday."

for that. I don't mind seeing the Mail Carriers getting Saturdays off and I don't see anything wrong with not getting my mail on Saturdays...

WE are also flooded in our office with supervisors. They all just sit around and eat and gab while the carriers are all doing their jobs out on the streets.
WAKE UP POSTAL UPPERS.....Start from the top and work your way down and watch how fast the savings add up.

Why should management forgo there 39% rase shoot they are only willing to give us 1.3% over 4 yrs and change the pay table for us

A drop in service is not far behind. Vending machines have already taken a hit.

Maybe they should let us fired some of the slugs that we have in the Post Office, then maybe then we will be profitable.

Unions killed the steel industry. Their greed is killing the auto industry. Many would be willing to sort and deliver mail for less pay than the current monopoly employees are assured. Big-city counter service might be more friendly too. And, didn't we just have a stamp price increase just last year? Maybe that's part of the reason usage is down. Smart businesses lower prices to increase sales!