With the Postal Service facing another challenging year, employees must continue to focus on reducing workhours and operating expenses, according to DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe. And to help USPS achieve its FY 2010 budget, one of the primary goals is to cut 93 million workhours.
Year to date, workhours and expenses, respectively, are 1.2 percent and 1.6 percent over plan, says Donahoe, who asks employees to follow the processes and procedures in place to help reduce costs. Most importantly, this means matching workhours to workload.
Reviewing a variety of cost-reduction opportunities in mail processing, customer service, delivery and supervisory/administrative areas in this week’s Field Updates segment, Donahoe thanks employees for their tremendous efforts. But, he adds, continued attention to operating plans and programs is needed to stay on track.
With renewed efforts to control overtime, optimizing the utilization of automation equipment and managing the assignments of non-career employees, Donahoe says USPS will achieve success in FY 2010.
source: USPS News Link
Sirs, Donohoe wants hours reduced everywhere but ibn that bloated bueracracy that the Postal Service calls management. How has headquarters increased their ranks by 38% and at the same time called for work hour reduction? It is the same old story, do what I say, NOT, wnat I do.
Perhaps if they fired all the sales people who stole commissions from the Postal Service that they didn’t earn that would help reduce overhead. Even with an investigation by the OIG’s office, nothing happened.
If anybody ever says that justice is blind in this country, meaning that everybody gets treated the same under the law, tell them to put on a white shirt and they can rob the country blind, sanctioned by the Office of Inspector General.
If you really wanted to save money, you should start @ HEADQUARTERS! that’s where most of the USPS budget is being lost on useless employees who do nothing for their (unjustified) BIG PAYCHECKS! I think everybody should be fired who works at HEADQUARTERS and bring in (LESS) NEW PEOPLE who have a different way of thinking, and who have NEW IDEAS because what we have in place NOW, SUCKS! and it has for years.. If you are NOT working the mail, selling the mail, delivering the mail, fixing/maintaining the machines, keeping our buildings clean or a MVS driver what the hell do we need you for? Just how many butt kissers do you need? Last time I checked it wasn’t a bid job, no more details for butt kissing, we have NO MONEY for KNEE PADS!! anyway that’s what ERRP said! Why do we need a Postmaster for each zone/station? MANAGEMENT IS THE PROBLEM!!! We need a NEW PMG. (FIRE PMG POTTER!!!) HE IS THE PROBLEM!!!!
Just another clueless Postal exec. raking in big money. Craft employees down double digit % points, but mgmt. has increased %38 since 2000, during the same time frame the craft employees have been reduced !
In other words, Potter and his crook buddies are the problem, not the employees.
Sirs, Donohoe wants hours reduced everywhere but ibn that bloated bueracracy that the Postal Service calls management. How has headquarters increased their ranks by 38% and at the same time called for work hour reduction? It is the same old story, do what I say, NOT, wnat I do.
Perhaps if they fired all the sales people who stole commissions from the Postal Service that they didn’t earn that would help reduce overhead. Even with an investigation by the OIG’s office, nothing happened.
If anybody ever says that justice is blind in this country, meaning that everybody gets treated the same under the law, tell them to put on a white shirt and they can rob the country blind, sanctioned by the Office of Inspector General.
Hello Lucille, I just wanted to say “Hello” . I’ve been doing good and I hope all is well with you too. There are a couple of questions I’d like to ask you about. Do you think after the contract comes up in Nov and it goes to arbitration will they be laying off employees with 6 years or less? It seems that with all of these early outs they are offering nobody is really leaving. Moving people around is not working either. If a junior regular gets excessed do they have retreat rights? Luz Maya is our Jr. Reg. she is kinda worried. Not sure if you do the Facebook thing but I am on there more than E-mail. Hope to hear from you soon. Take Care.
Louie 925-437-8401
If saving money is truly formost for the Postal Service. Quit spending millions of dollars on machines (FSS) that doesn’t fit in most of your plants and doesn’t work as promised in the few plants that it does fit in. All they have done is shortened our office time while extending our street time. Resulting in very little time saved.
I once was told by a Postal Supervisor that “Mismanagement is not a crime.” Well it should be a crime in the case of the Postal Service. The managers and supervisors don’t want the workers involvemennt or suggestions. If you have a really good solution to a problem it will be shot down for whatever reason and a few weeks or months later your idea will be implemented with the supervisor or manager taking all the credit. They make the worst buttwads 204B’s, Supervisors and Managers. At my plant they just promoted two 204B’s to Supervisor that have Sexual Harrassment cases pending. These people will just keep on doing the same thing with no action taken. Too many worthless Supervisors and Managers with nothing to do but bother the craft employees. The mail still gets out despite Management.
Employees should follow policies and procedures? Are you kidding me? North Metro (Ga) hasn’t followed an SOP in the 20 years I’ve been here. Managers and supervisors always have a better way to circumvent the system which ALWAYS creates overtime. I hope they don’t ever figure it out….Hahahahaha.
Start by eliminating Supervisor higher level details. In Boston there are over 100 Super. on details.
Put them all back to the jobs they own and save
Matching work hours to work load is the way it should always be. This is not something that all of a sudden is a new idea. Stop giving out OT when the mail volume does not warrant it! This has been a problem FOREVER!
Only one thing the PO has wanted from me for 30 years…………..MORE…….Always more.
As offices get smaller shouldnt the pay levels of supervisors go down?
we have so many fewer craft employees now than we had 11 years ago when i got to this office, yet we have the same amount of supervisors and managers!!! where’s the problem??? HELLO!!!