PMG Potter to Address Worsening USPS Finances Wednesday

January 27, 2009 by
Filed under: NAPS, postal supervisors, usps 

Source: National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) Legislative and Regulatory Update – January 26, 2009 (NAPS.org)
 
Rumors have been swirling throughout the Postal Service in recent weeks about big changes coming: significant plant consolidations, area and district staffing reductions, craft work-hour cutbacks, the list goes on.  The Postal Service has remained mum about these rumors.  One union president has been particularly candid about the prospects for significant change.  Mailers are concerned about the possibility of USPS filing for an emergency rate increase in 2009, to supplement the annual rate hike available in May.

Greater clarity should come about on Wednesday afternoon when Postmaster General Jack Potter appears before a Senate postal oversight panel to testify on the deteriorating financial health of the Postal Service and what can be done to stabilize the ship.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), chairman of the Senate Federal Services Subcommittee, has called the hearing to learn how badly the flagging economy is hurting the Postal Service and whether the Postal Service should receive any kind of relief, and if so, what kind and how much.
 

The Postal Service is Hurting 

    There’s no doubt about it.  The worsening economy has thrown the Postal Service into a financial tailspin.  Mail volume is declining at a pace not seen since the early 1930’s.  The business sectors that have provided the greatest amount of mail to the Postal Service – financial services, retail and housing – are among the industries hardest hit by the worsening recession. Direct mail campaigns are being cut back or coming to a screeching halt.  In 2008, the Postal Service lost $2.8 billion, and volume declined by 9 billion pieces.  Current trends indicate that USPS this year could lose $4 billion or more.

    No one knows whether the lost mail volume will return when the economy revives, or how long that will take.  Significant structural changes to the Postal Service, even to its business and products model, are inevitable, but those take time and are several years down the road.  
 
    The USPS can only do so much in shedding costs, while preserving service quality and its universal service obligation.  Given the way the Postal Service is a barometer of the economy, it’s no wonder that the Postal Service’s finances have tanked. 
 
    The House version of the economic stimulus package, set for a vote in the House on Wednesday, does not include relief for the Postal Service.  The Senate stimulus measure is still being crafted, but questions remain whether an appropriation for the Postal Service is necessarily the right move. 
Reducing the Strangle Hold of Prefunding Postal Service Retiree Health Care

    One of the best ways to provide financial relief for the Postal Service is through the reduction of one of the Postal Service’s largest costs – its payments toward the future health insurance premiums of its retirees. This prefunding obligation was created by the 2006 postal reform law, with a payment schedule far too ambitious, especially now.  No federal department or agency has this kind prefunding obligation, nor are USPS or FedEx required to do the same, nor do they.
 
    In response, Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) and Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) have introduced legislation, H.R. 22, that will address the USPS prefunding requirement and make a simple but significant change in the law.  HR 22 will permit the Postal Service to satisfy its payment for the premiums of current retirees out of the $32 billion that USPS has already set aside (including the infamous “escrow” lockbox) for future retiree health insurance premiums. 

    NAPS President Ted Keating and the presidents of the six other postal management associations and postal employee unions urged the Congressional leadership last month to include prefunding relief for USPS in the economic stimulus package.
 
    The change would not affect the health insurance benefits of any retiree.  Nor it is a bailout; it simply would revise the payment schedule under which the Postal Service makes down payments for the health insurance premiums of its future retirees.

    In these difficult economic times, the question becomes: Should the Postal Service be forced to annually prefund $5.4 billion for future retirees, in addition to paying the $2.3 billion for current employees, when it cannot afford these payments right now and is going deeper and deeper into debt?”

Wednesday’s Senate hearing will take a closer look at this issue and others. 
 
 
Bruce Moyer
NAPS Legislative Counsel

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  1. SA on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 7:20 am

    2. You agreed to these terms in 2006 when you and our unions pushed for postal reform.lIVE UP TO YOUR AGREEMENT YOU F–KING SCUMBAGS. Very easily done reduce your excess mgt. as everyone knows you have and put the lite duties out the door. Any lite duties who respond F–K YOU.

  2. Pete on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 8:18 am

    3. It is time to combine all the Unions to one. We do not need multiple Uions anymore. Have all jobs available to all crafts. Have all the limited duty to take disability retirement.

  3. JJ on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 8:43 am

    4. SA, you are the scumbag. I am a disabled veteran who has worked over 25 years and my condition is to the point that I can’t stand. I work the window sitting. I still work a full shift. So I say to you, F-K you. You are an angry loser.

  4. tromba on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 10:32 am

    5. It’s about time that the PRC come up with some new pricing strategies. What are they doing to make the USPS solvent? Work Hour reductions alone cannot make up for the revenue lost when the economy goes south, or when gas prices go through the roof. What new products and services is the Postal Service coming up with to raise revenue? Attempting to rent Post Office boxes when the mail uptime commitment keeps moving to later in the day, is a no go. Maybe we should be selling Lattes at the window, people are more interested in that, then renting as P.O. Box.

  5. Pete on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 12:01 pm

    6. The limited duty is distroying the USPS. Not you JJ as you make an attempt to work. There are many that just show up for a paycheck. Time to get them out.

  6. uh-oh on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 12:01 pm

    7. so, if h.r. 22 is passed would that constitute a significant relaxation? if so, look out. per the apwu cba page 286 “however, in the event Congress repeals or significantly relaxes the Private Express Statutes this Memorandum shall expire upon the enactment of such legislation.”

  7. IT'S LATINA TIME! on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 1:50 pm

    8. I HAVE BEEN CALLING OUT THE IODS FOR YEARS…YES THIS IS OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM!! SOME OF THEM THINK, THAT BY MERELY SHOWING UP, THEY ARE BEING PRODUCTIVE, AND ENTITLED TO A PAYCHECK….BOOT OUT THESE WORTHLESS SLUGS, OVER 30 THOUSAND NATIONWIDE, AND YOU WILL SEE THIS SHIP FLOAT AGAIN….IT’S CALLED “FLOTSAM AND JETSAM”…..WE HAVE MUCH FLOTSAM, SO LETS TOSS EM OVERBOARD, AND MAKE THEM JETSAM!!! IODS, YOU ARE ALL GOING TO BURN IN HELL FOR LYING, AND FRAUDING!!!

  8. Snstrmdgt on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 2:00 pm

    9. Limited duty employees are those that have been hurt on the job. They are fellow Union brethren in many cases. The ones in my office work and eight hour shift and do a significant amount of work within the limitations that their Doctors have set for them. There are employees that can’t work at all due to their condition. I’m no Doctor and neither are you. Who the hell are you to judge the plight of another?

    Some of you people would throw them out into the street and in the same breath call the Republican Party and Postal Management Nazis.

    Goddamn you people are hypocrites and animals.
    Remember. Life is a great big circle…it ALL comes around.

  9. THE EYE IN THE SKY on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 2:08 pm

    10. ALL IODS,,I SEE YOU,,,CHEATING, LYING, FRAUDING, ACCEPTING MONEY, WITH NO WORK IN EXCHANGE. YOU ARE LYING TO YOURSELVES, YOUR COUNTRY, AND YOUR GOD! LATINA TIME IS RIGHT, YOU SHALL ALL BURN IN HELL FOR THIS…YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING NOTHING WRONG? I BEG TO DIFFER…EACH OF YOU KNOW, THAT YOU CAN WORK, AND ARE ABLE TO WORK…BUT YET YOU CONTINUE TO CHEAT AND LIE….MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR PATHETIC SOULS…..(I HOPE HE DOESN’T…BECAUSE PAYMENT DUE, FAR EXCEEDS ACCCOUNTS RECEIVED!!!)…..

  10. barracuda on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 2:21 pm

    11. First–Light duty employees are not the problem!

    The problem is too many management/salary people.
    Too much money spent on Blackberry phones for all of the above overpaid management.
    Too much money paid out in BONUS MONEY that is not earned.

    Millions spent on GPS tracking for harassment purpose.
    Millions spent on FFS machines too sort less and less actual mail!
    This is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Congress should start investigating all the wasted money spent for unneeded programs and equipment!

  11. Anonymous on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 2:44 pm

    12. Get rid of all you slug regulars and let PTF’s take over. We can do all you routs in 5 hrs or less.

  12. Postal Doc on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 3:28 pm

    13. It’s all about accountability, way too much
    fat in upper management, too many workers who
    think they are owed something & a union who
    tell there members too slow it down for O.T.
    Management spends money faster than Paris
    Hilton on a spree, just to spend because as
    they say , if we don’t spend it we lose it.
    As far as anonymous PTF , if you’re a carrier maybe you should learn to spell routes
    before you try to take over.

  13. IT'S LATINA TIME! on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 3:49 pm

    14. well Snstrmdgt , PERHAPS IT IS FROM MY MORE THAN 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THIS CRAPHOLE, AND SEEING NUMEROUS “IODS” SITTING ON THEIR BUTTS DOING NOTHING,,BUT OH, AFTER WORK THEY SEEM TO BE JUST FINE!! PLAYING SPORTS , HUNTING, FISHING, DOING WORK AROUND THE HOUSE..ETC…SO TAKE THAT TO THE BANK YOU STUPID (__)__) HOLE!!! IODS ARE THE PROBLEM TO THE TUNE OF 33K NATIONWIDE!!

  14. POSTAL PAT on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 5:36 pm

    15. Maybe if the post office didnt have an 8 million dollar lawsuit out of the parkville station for a carrier that abandoned his route scaned copies of scan points and he still works for the postal service. Post office protects thier pets!!!

  15. mzfaye on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 5:47 pm

    16. i thought latina time died and burned in hell, guess i was wrong. because of her i don’t read the responses. she is one bitter, hateful, evil, selfish, selfcentered, repugnant load of human waste at the post office, and i am not even on limited or light duty. some of them do more work than the people who say there is nothing wrong with them. latina time, change the channel or get a life. 32 years in and don’t waste my time worrying about others.

  16. Anonymous on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 8:00 pm

    17. latina time,, If you know so much about these injured people, why the hell don’t you report them to the 1-800 # and claim your reward.. From your postings, it seems you need a long vacation to relieve your hatred of other people.

  17. monkey on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 8:07 pm

    18. Snstrmdgt:
    Having a conversation in this forum can be a waste of time as you see some people are very bias no matter what. Sometimes people’s hatred can overrun them. As long as employees do the best they can in whatever way they can, that is what matters the most. Until people have walked a mile in other peoples shoes, other people will not always be so understanding. It is better to hang around “nice” people who are understanding. Actions speak louder than words. At least whoever is writing mud about IOD’s, limited duty are being supposedly honest about their feelings instead of being two faced about it like they are at work. For whatever the case, so be it. We can only be in charge of ourselves. Opinions are like you know. :)

  18. monkey on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 8:15 pm

    19. Snstrmdgt:

    Also, you never know if you are talking to the same person with four different user id names, as crazy as it may seem, it could be true. For example: 1buc may be latina-time having a conversation with them self because no one else will talk to him or her and that person might also have an gender/identity flaw, wants to be a man , but really is a woman. Now come on. Who calls themselves a 1buc? Duh!!!! :)

  19. IT'S LATINA TIME! on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 9:26 pm

    20. I AM ALIVE AND WELL, AND DOING BETTER THAN YOU!! I HAVE 3 THINGS EVERYONE WANTS…A PRETTY FACE, A HOT BODY, AND I AM VERY SMART….SO, TO YOU DOPES WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF 30,000 PLUS SLUGS SITTING AROUND PICKING THEIR FAT LAZY USELESS (__)__)’S..I SAY..ADD IT UP!!…THEY ARE PAID FOR, SITTING AROUND, NOT DOING THEIR BID JOBS, NOT TO MENTION ALL THEIR WHINEY ASS PAPERWORK AND LIMITATIONS, THEY DO USELESS, MEANINGLESS BUSY ACTIVITIES (NOT WORK) ALL DAY LONG, OR NIGHT LONG, I AsK ANY ONE OF YOU MORONS THIS….START YOUR OWN COMPANY, AND WOULD YOU HIRE ANY USLESS IOD SLUG FROM THE POST OFFICE, AND LET THEM SIT AROUND COUNTING PAPERCLIPS ALL DAY LONG? IF YOU ARE SMART, YOUR ANSWER WILL BE NO…IF IT IS YES, THEN YOU ARE DUMBER THAN HELL….(THE LATTER WILL APPLY, I AM SURE)>>>IN EITHER CASE, YOU CAN ALL KISS MY (__)__)…!

  20. Ben Dover on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 10:19 pm

    21. The Postal Service went down the toilet in
    the early 80′s when they hired so many women.
    As you can all see by Latina, my comment is true.

    BTW Latina what is your job, it seems by your
    comments you spend much of your time looking
    in the mirror..

  21. Wolfe on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 2:54 am

    22. What the hell does this have to do with IOD? You people are fighting each other just like management wants. The blame lies with management. If you have people that are IOD in your office management is responsible to make sure their documentation is correct and current. Most managers are lazy ex-lazy craft employees. They didn’t work before they became managers so what do you expect? Don’t blame all IOD employees for a few corrupt employees. I believe 90% of all craft employees are good workers and 10% are shit. It’s the other way around when talking about managers.

  22. and on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 4:39 am

    23. and it keeps going and going and going and going drum drum drum drum

  23. Pete on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 7:16 am

    24. Craft always blames Managers. But why do we pay 6 figures to all the Union Presidents? Why not have 1 Union? If I want to go from Clerk to Carrier, why do I lose my seniority? Let’s make us ONE!

  24. To Ben Dover on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 7:59 am

    25. I dont know what you do Mr Dover,but if it were not for the women at the USPS,the mail in our facility would never get out.The WOMEN do the MAJORITY of the work,so dont even go there.

  25. Anonymous on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 10:04 am

    26. Wolf has it right in my office in NY we have a PM (Eas26) 2 Area Mgrs.(Eas23&22) plus to station Mgrs.who are hanging out up there with these 2 doing nothing while they are both receiving lv 20 they are covering their stations with act’g mgr’s who are really lev.17 getting paid at level 20 just so these cronies can hang with the PM & Area Mgrs& you know the best part they both have more than 38yrs in if they can’t handle what the mgmnt.job has become get the hell out!!!They went after a DM (District Mgrand forced that person into retirement why can’t the new Metro area Mgr finish cleaning up the mgmt.people not needed then clean up the iod’s & craft

  26. 28 on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 10:55 am

    27. Let me chime in here. These boards are great. We are hard workers who have a hard job made infinitely worse by poor leaders. We have a grievance system in place to handle the infinite complaints of the workers who actually do the job. How to handle injured on the job people? If they can work, great, otherwise too bad for my USPS company. The misguided, despotic style of management promoting the worst to the top results in unnecessary injuries and work disruption. This job is not complicated. Why does the management here attack workers at will? Doesn’t the union care?

  27. SKB on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 11:11 am

    28. Just get all the pot heads, meth uscers and drunks out of the postal service and we could save alot of money.

  28. SKB on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 11:13 am

    29. get all the drunks out of the postal service before you do anything.

  29. Pete on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 11:45 am

    30. One Union, One Contract!

  30. Kellie on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 1:08 pm

    31. I’m a fifteen-year carrier. I keep wondering whether it’s time to decide that a self-supporting Postal Service was a good experiment that ultimately didn’t work, and start propping it up with tax money again.

  31. IT'S LATINA TIME! on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 2:24 pm

    32. WELL ALL YOU IDIOTS WHO THINK I AM MEAN…THINK OF THIS….DOESN’T IT PISS YOU OFF, THAT 10′S OF THOUSANDS OF IODS ARE SITTING AROUND , WHINING ABOUT A LITTLE PAIN HERE AND THERE, NOT BEING REQUIRED TO FULFILL DUTIES OF THEIR BIDS, BEING ALLOWED TO WORK OVERTIME, THUS, SITTING ON THEIR SORRY ASSES ANOTHER 2 OR 4 HOURS…BUT, WALA!! AFTER WORK, THEY CAN DANCE, EXERCISE, WORK OUT, CLIMB TREES, SWIM, AND DO ALL KINDS OF ACTIVITIES, THAT THEY CLAIM THEY CANT DO AT WORK?????? TO THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK I AM MEAN, OR WRONG,,,,,FK YOU!!!! YOU ARE IDIOTIC MORONS WHO CANNONT THINK BEYOND YOUR BIG NOSES!!!

  32. SA on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 2:32 pm

    33. JJ YOU ARE AS PHONY AS A $3 BILL.YOU HAVE PROBABLY BEEWN ON LIGHT DUTY FOR24 plus years.rETIRE YOU PIECE OF GARBAGE.

  33. Blessed! on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 3:32 pm

    34. We all are so blessed to still be employed..It is going on everywhere not just the post office.. We can not put the blame on the injured employees. Besides it is the post office that brings the injured workers back to work. They don’t have a choice. I know it for a fact! We have to work as long as it is available to us. Stop using email and faxes buy STAMPS!! Mail letters..We can help!

  34. IT'S LATINA TIME! on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 3:40 pm

    35. it is the post office that brings them back to work because they have to, not because they want you, dope!!!

  35. tired on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 4:15 pm

    36. to all of the foolish clowns; from a TRULY INJURED EMPLOYEE OF THE USPS; I AND MANY OTHERS ARE DEDICATED, HARD WORKING PEOPLE…JUST LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF THE LPO’S WHEN THEY EXCESSED US. RIGHT! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YOUR LIVES THE CLERKS AND SUPERVISORS FINALLY BREAK INTO A SWEAT.(WORKING) YEAH..YOU MISS US, AND THE REVENUE AT THE STATIONS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. WHOS’S LAZY?

  36. Told You So on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 5:23 pm

    37. Latina , take it easy don’t try to argue, your points are valid just as anyone’s else.

    The nation is suffering and the PO is no exception.

    Obama will help!

  37. Blessed! on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 5:26 pm

    38. Whether they want to or not Ms. Latina it sure is not up to you! Young and Dumb! You have little knowledge and one day you will get experience and knowledge that you truly need just keep living! And to all the Blessed injured employees that are paid to sit around as some may say! WOO-HOO!! You Deserve it! Thank God for the Postal Service.

  38. IT'S LATINA TIME! on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 5:49 pm

    39. Snstrmdgt…YOU SAY LIFE IS A GREAT BIG CIRCLE HUH? WELL KISS THIS CIRCLE (__o__)

  39. bamagirl54 on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 6:27 pm

    40. Latina, and people like her. are the reason the postal service is in the shape it’s in. What a moronic attitude you have Latina! Give the world a nice break and fall off. Managers MDO’s)are now working 14-15 hour days a day, and I’m sure most would gladly turn in their blackberries so we wouldn’t be bothered at home.

  40. monkey on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 8:22 pm

    41. Latina Time, you are a nasty little hostile chutterbug aren’t you. Terrible!! Your obscenities and swear words. It is hard to believe you are a woman as you say you are. Shame on you because you have no matters. It is too bad you are not a better person, more like acting like a dark identity if I were to guess. I hope you are not from my office, because I think I would probably want to do something to you which is not nice.

  41. New Blood on Wed, 28th Jan 2009 9:43 pm

    42. Labor has been squeezed tight on the street. City Carriers are busting their tails to get the job done! The NALC is on the right page by strongly supporting revenue generation [Customer Connect]!

    Unfotunately the APWU and the NRLCA, in a stubborn stance to acquire as little responsibility as possible, have rejected, or at least ignored any attempts at revenue generation [e.g. Rural Reach and Submit-A-Lead].

    It would be great if the NALC could swallow the APWU and NRLCA and crap out the waste [for the most part, APWU union "advocates"].

    One last thing, I have yet to see anyone work for free as much as level-22 and below Postmasters, Station Managers, and EAS-16 supervisors.

    My suggestion to everyone: Find out who your local Business Development Team rep is and introduce him/her to a firm that is using the competition. Introduce them to the business routes and the businesses that we can serve the best!

    Stop this garbage-bickering, unite the unions with the NALC leadership in charge, and grow the doggone business before we look as inept as the Auto Industry.

  42. Senator Widestance on Thu, 29th Jan 2009 3:39 am

    43. Wait till little latina gets hurt. She’ll be begging to get into my stall. But she won’t be allowed. I mean I like a&&holes, but not A&&HOLES.

  43. Pete on Thu, 29th Jan 2009 7:05 am

    44. We all will be looking for jobs soon if we go to a 5 day workweek.

  44. Doc on Thu, 29th Jan 2009 5:06 pm

    45. Why believe any of this , wasn’t it 10 yrs ago the P.O. stated there was no more Nepotism.

  45. monkey on Thu, 29th Jan 2009 7:39 pm

    46. Latina-time, Sounds like you are soo arrogant and full of yourself. You think you are so hot, pretty. Okay, lets say for a moment you might be to a degree, then that is not what is in the inside of you. I am betting you are also one of the most superficial phoniest people around who is “so nice to everyone” except maybe a few, to whom you “really” show your colors to. You go on this site as cocky as ever and rant your true feelings. It sucks that you are such a mean selfish, closed minded bastard. As pretty as you may think you are on the outside, superficially nice and all, you are the opposite to me, ugliest person around. :-) with a smile on my face, I say that to you.

  46. Steamer on Fri, 30th Jan 2009 6:40 am

    47. I’ve worked for the USPS for 15 years, and when I started, I was told how we were going to get the parcel business back that we once had. Well, we never did! Mail volumn is decreasing more and more each year, yet I see management buying more expensive DIOSS, and other mail processing equipment to more efficiently process less mail. This is INSANE!!!!!! WE NEED TO GET BACK THE PARCELS WE FOOLISHLY GAVE UPS YEARS AGO!!! IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE!!!!!!! You don’t need a doctorate degree in economics to understand this. We need to compete with UPS in every way we can. We are at everone’s doorstep, everyday! There is no reason except poor management why we cannot achieve this.

  47. Clerk In Ga on Fri, 30th Jan 2009 1:31 pm

    48. Just want to say to all that all this bickering is non productive. Legitimate people that are hurt on the job deserve our support. If you want to talk about sorry people, look at your co workers that work slowly to try to get overtime. Management doesn’t punish them….management now a days is trying to get more productivity with less people. More and more postal workers are getting hurt on the job because of this fact. When you mix more work with less people, this is bound to make the machine break down, and management refuses to see this for what it is. In the end, management pays more for health care costs, and absenses than if they were just to keep the same compliment to move the mail…… you people figure it out. If any one here has a better way of doing things, maybe you need to chime up and do something about it. This is our jobs at stake we are talking about people. Time to PUT UP OR SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE UNION !!!!!!!!!!! THE TIME IS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

  48. Clerk In Ga on Fri, 30th Jan 2009 1:40 pm

    49. One question for the folks that are complaining about light duty people….. Would you feel the same way you do now if it was YOU that got hurt on the job???? Or would YOU be like the sorry ones you talk about, doing nothing and getting paid for it???? I am sure everyone here knows quite a few healthy people that work for the USPS, and don’t do an honest days work for their money….. and try to burn overtime when it isn’t necessary. Why not give them some of the blame too???? Or is it that most that post are too one-sided to see the truth for what is??? We are ALL to BLAME for the current crisis facing the USPS…. Make a difference and do your job to the best of your ability each and every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  49. Like it is on Fri, 30th Jan 2009 6:09 pm

    50. New Blood you must be a carrier or ex carrier in mgmt. One of the big reasons the USPS is in the shape it is is because the carriers have become whining babies we lost the contract with Dell computers because the lazy carriers wouldn’t deliver the computers they would leave notices so the customer would have to pickup themselves or call for re-del at which time the idiot carrier would have to take it out again that’s only 1 ex.there are so many more,like running through their rts.and taking 0.t on another still being done way before their reg.8 hrs are up.

  50. Anonymous on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 6:49 pm

    51. I will be one very lucky and HAPPY person the day (God willing) that I can retire for the USPS!!! And I won’t be tempted to log on the this site and read STUPID and HURTFUL B.S. from “LATINA whatever”. She is one sick puppy!!