74 Comments on USPS Wants to Offer Eligible Postal Workers Early Retirement?

PAT CRESS on Fri, 30th Sep 2011 8:26 pm


THE ‘REDUCTION’ IN WORKFORCE BLOWS MY MIND! WE ARE ALREADY SO UNDERSTAFFED: CARRIERS AS WELL AS CLERKS. TO GENERATE REVENUE WE NEED MORE CLERKS ON WINDOWS , WORKING HOURS THAT DRAW WORKING CUSTOMERS TO USE OUR SERVICES. AT OUR OFFICE ,WE DO NOT HAVE A CARRIER ON EVERY ROUTE. WE ARE A SERVICE INDUSTRY (WHICH MANY ARE FORGETTING. ) IF YOU KEEP CUTTING SERVICE, YOU WILL BE LOSING MONEY AND CUSTOMERS. ALL THIS ‘CUT, CUT, CUT’ IS THEIR SCHEME TO LOSE CUSTOMERS, MAKE US LOOK BAD, AND THEN PRIVATIZATION WILL COME IN. THIS WILL CLEAR THE WAY FOR LOWER WAGE,NO BENEFIT JOBS AND HIGHER PROFITS FOR THE ELITE. TOO BAD FOR THE NEEDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,

Garage Sale on Fri, 30th Sep 2011 8:30 pm


Dear Santa

Make it sweet.

John Doe on Fri, 30th Sep 2011 8:35 pm


We are short clerks and carriers…..working a ton of overtime! Cut employees? Really?

CSRS on Fri, 30th Sep 2011 9:07 pm


Gimme some sugar!

MARI on Fri, 30th Sep 2011 9:21 pm


IF YOU SUPERVISORS/POSTMASTERS WOULD WORK THE WINDOW UNDERSTAFFED AS I DO YOU WOULD NOT BE MAKING THESE STUPID DECISIONS TO CUT MORE JOBS GET WITH THE PROGRAM YOU’RE CUTTING UR OWN THROATS

george on Fri, 30th Sep 2011 10:24 pm


My plant is closing on that very date, what a coincidence. Yes they should give a vera offer. It would be very productiive at FP&D. And about the only conclusion to be drawn is, privitization is the goal of the current leadership of usps.

ron on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 12:24 am


democrat talking closing offices? Come on somebody give him some money and get him back in line.

DB on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 3:37 am


It would be great if they could offer a decent incentive package to retirement eligible employees.( up to 1 yr pay based on years of service, paid over 52 weeks) The way most of our elective officials have retirement set for them at the cost of all of us, they should have a little more compassion for people who have dedicated their lives(30-40yrs) to the gov’t. and really work!
I agree laying off more employees sounds ridiculous given the current work load of workers now. They are paying lots of overtime and forcing these workers to come in and do the work. Something doesn’t click! Who is making these decisions. Advertising? Now? Really? What a waste of money that is not there. Sounds like the Gov’t – spending foolishly

0ld clerk on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 4:10 am


all the comments above about being understaffed are accurate. throw in the fact that they are overstaffed in management and you come to the conclusion that they just dont care. they really really dont. mail will pile up in offices all over the country. not all first class mail will go out for delivery on a daily basis even after it finally gets to the carriers case!!!.. its coming.. they dont care. its all about the bottom line and saving their own asses… as far as incentives. they knew months ago they would have to offer incentives. when they dragged their feet and waited past sept 1.. you had to figure they would make you work thru xmas… dont think logicially.. they dont.. think like them… life will get easier if you do..those eligible should take the incentive and leave. if you are 55 with 30.. you are still young.. find something else to supplement what you will be losing.. if they waive penalties for under 55.. leave.. and then read above..

Tony on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 4:12 am


Iam ready to retire as soon as possible! Show me the VERA!

bill on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 4:55 am


I think every worker in America should read “RETIREMENT HEIST how companies plunder and profit from the nest eggs of the American workers by Ellen E Schultz”. The internet, government and postal management put the post office in its present financial state. Some of the proposed fixes sound like what was sold to workers who lost big time from their pensions in some very big companies in America. Do we think new healthcare and retirement packages will be better than what we now have? Read the book and I think everyone will see this has been offered to others and they now know they have been had.

Read the book don’t trust these clowns

Joe Paul on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 5:06 am


It does seem apparent that the USPS will probably offer VERA’s sometime down the road, but they want to ‘scare’ employees out first. In the present economy it is my opinion that most employees that are eligible to retire may be reluctant to do so. As many posters have stated, the USPS is so understaffed, especially in the Retail Units, it would seem a bit hard to believe we could reduce in these areas? With the long lines now, it is also hard to believe that our customers will be content to stay with us. There must be some alternatives,especially in light of the fact that the USPS must truy to ‘keep’ the customers we have right now!

Joe Paul

nogjr on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 6:36 am


WAY TOO MUCH MANAGEMENT!!!! For every 4 craft employees (Carrier,clerk , mailhandler) there is 1 manager (supervisor, postmaster, and above). If you do not touch the mail you are DEAD WEIGHT!!!! over 40 Vice-presidents!! all of whom make around 200K before benefits! That is the problem with the postal service aside from the pre-funding debacle.

Tom Griffin on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 8:51 am


Not only do we have to much management the managers we have working for the u.s. postal service are under trained or they knew someone with thepower to promote them.And I have also seen employee’s promoted to a hire position because they screwed up at the last position they held.You talk about a waste of money;its a joke to the hire ups its not their worry anymore that employee is moved to another facility asap.Feed Up.

moe on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 9:01 am


For the first time in USPS history, we now have a PMG who is intentionally ignoring
contracts, postal laws and regulations and demoralizing employees to achieve “privatization”. In my almost 40 years of employment I have never seen such low moral and a feeling of hoplessness. Donahoe is doing all of this under the premise of “saving” the Postal Service but in truth to privatize the Postal Service. And if this can be achieved under his watch, will elevate himself into more than likely a nice seven figure salary. I hope an pray that when all of the congressional dust has settled, the next step will be to relieve the PMG of his position with an individual who does not speak lies.

NORFOLK MIKE on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 9:41 am


NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, IN A FEW YEARS THE POSTAL MANAGERS WILL BE CRYING ABOUT BEING IN DEBT ONCE AGAIN. MANAGE THE PLACE, MAKE PEOPLE WORK,GET RID OF THE SLACKERS, STOP DOGGING THE PEOPLE WHO WORK. STREAMLINE THE MANAGEMENT TEAM!

Timmy "T" Eagle on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 10:06 am


To Bill @ 4:55. You hit the nail on the head. It’s a great book which leads me to believe that the $5.5 billion per year from the USPS is nothing more than shake down money. In past years I’ve exposed the USPS’s fraudulent business practices to Nancy Pelosi, OIG, DoJ and the EEOC and to no avail no one did anything about it. I even have an AJ’s EEOC Decision that stated the file was to be destroyed in 60 days. As long as the Gov’t gets it $5.5 billion it keeps calling off the dogs while Mismanagement continues to fleece the USPS. The Gov’t needs the $5.5 billion to pay off FEMA’s $3.9 billion to the tornado/flood victims. Those families will not have a home this winter because the USPS stole the money that was to be paid to the Gov’t. The USPS is presently deleting “Run Files” from the various machines to show low volumes while the whole time they are skimming the money generated by the presort/collection mail. Shoooooot Lukey “We just cancelled 1,000,000 pieces but our machines show we only did 550,000 pieces. What happen to the money that was generated from the other 450,000 pieces?” Ooops, there goes my $$$BONUS$$$ for 2012. This is going on all over the country and no one will do anything about it. The Press was given instructions by Washington to not do any investigating reporting on the USPS. This is all a sham perpetrated by the US Gov’t and the USPS. Hopefully someone in Congress and the Senate will do the right thing. I still have faith.

Timmy "T" Eagle on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 10:12 am


As a sidebar. Be careful of the “incentives.” Read the ELM on the types of Annuities. The “Supplement” is only given if there is a VERA (involuntary separation) or you worked 30 years of service including 5 years of civilian service. Most people think its automatic for everyone, it’s not. In SF(CA) a VERA was offerred but it did not apply to Mail Handlers.

Phat Jack Potter on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 10:15 am


Sure glad I got mine before the $hit hit the fan !

Good luck to the rest of you suckers, and ……. more Beef Wellington please !

Firepotter on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 11:53 am


Create a new t6 position for daily operations and have the 6 most senior carriers switch off every day. This way we will be managed by our peers and not make work inbred micro- managers. The current management scam has no accountability and think the postal service needs them. WE DON’T! The other crafts can do the same.
Eliminate 110,000 managers equals 7 billion 150 million dollars in savings. Create 10k new t6′s to replace management costs only 500 million. It can be done. This is what our union should be pushing for. Then we won’t have to negotiate with a middle man like we are with management. It will be with an arbitrator. It goes to arbitration every contract anyway.

Frank Ambrosio on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 12:01 pm


Chicago is overstaffed, take some of ours please. Four subs in one station delivering parcels and express all day. More than likely with 20 minute intervals between deliveries. Let’s get these subs some routes by having buyouts for carriers that have gone past their retirement time.

Frank Ambrosio on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 12:15 pm


Quote: WAY TOO MUCH MANAGEMENT!!!! For every 4 craft employees (Carrier,clerk , mailhandler) there is 1 manager (supervisor, postmaster, and above). If you do not touch the mail you are DEAD WEIGHT!!!! over 40 Vice-presidents!! all of whom make around 200K before benefits! That is the problem with the postal service aside from the pre-funding debacle.

Absolutely and you should see local management all of a sudden attempting to make themselves look busy. I had never seem a supervisor working the hot case or sorting out going mail at the back of the station. Where are the bags of blockbuster movies they would walk straight into their office with? Where are the daily three hour hen parties with clerks and mail handlers in the break area. Where are the 6 hour solitary/ surf the web sessions they had. Oh yeah they still do most of this. The pretending is not fooling anyone. Given that this happens at many companies it should not be tolerated with the us mail and especially not in this environment.

Firepotter on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 12:15 pm


Management has increased 28% since 2000 and the workers have decreased 20%. This is why customer service has fallen. . Now they want to decrease our ranks by 220.000. That leaves about 400,000 to do real work. If management gets their way again this means 1 boss for every 4 workers. It was 1 for 55 when a stamp was 23 cents. Even with HR 1351 passing this won’t keep management from destroying our postal service. They will continue increasing their ranks and paying their bloated salaries with our jobs. Management will still close plants and stop universal service to pay their bonuses’. We still here congressmen telling Donabloe how good of a job he is doing. I don’t see it! I say FIRE DONAHOE! And get rid of the middle man. LOCK OUT ALL MANAGEMENT!

D Issa on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 12:32 pm


What a bunch of winey little babies. Most of you are not even real Caucosoid Americans. It was a mistake to give you any federal benefits. You should have played more sports or learned music. I am making things the way they should have always been. Americans deserve mail delivery without having to worry about whether or not the carrier is going to rob or rape them. In the mean time we will keep pretending you people have a say in the matter. The desicion was made a decade ago by my party. This is what you get for siding with the wrong side during the last big chair elections.

Big Horn on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 1:12 pm


Winters are hard up in Brokeback Mountain, you and Ross need to get the sheep to market and quite screwing around.

Firepotter on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 2:38 pm


Anyone who is anti-union is a tea bagging crack head that believes that the earthquakes and hurricanes are gods’ wrath against democrats and the middle class. Look at your history. April 1937 Hitler’s 1st act of power was to assassinate the 5 German union presidents. Anyone who doesn’t know their history is doomed to repeat it. So when the corporate fascists succeed at destroying our union and our postal service who will protect and fight for your working contract with management? The SS or the Gestapo? Issa or Ross? The Koch Brothers’who financed 687 of these tea bagging clowns? Pick one Adolf, I mean D Issa

Raymond on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 5:34 pm


If I recall, President Reagan changed Retirement age, Instead of 30yrs then I Can retire, He place age restrictions…. 55yrs old. The Gov’t is the one that created the overflow of employees…. So now the problem is that we have many postal employees who now could retire that won’t…. Reagan & Congress created this problem today. Now you have Congressman proposing to lay off qualified retiree, as Services no longer needen to reduce the work force…. which in fact is age discrimination…. Congress should in fact offer a serious incentives and buyouts to workers that was actually forced to work over 30 yrs & over 55 instead of trying to EXECUTE them into Retirement… These are the kind of people elected into office that eventually turn against workers that they suppose to help. WE THE PEOPLE……….

ABUSED&TIRED on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 6:19 pm


I agree with you Raymond – Reagan implemented this law of working until you drop so that his friends can work until they drop. Look at the age of the politicians in congress – unbelievable!!!! Now they want to fix this PROBLEM within the USPS
because it’s workers decided to take advantage of this no age limit. Get rid of management and their freeloading. They don’t use their annual leave like we are forced to. Depending on your level – they don’t pay for healthcare. GET WID OF THESE FREELOADERS – IT WOULD SAVE THE USPS LOADS OF CASH. TOO MANY MDO’S – FOR WHAT. THEY WALK AROUND WITH THEIR HANDS IN THEIR POCKETS DOING NOTHING BUT GETTING PAID.

Supervisors raking up on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 6:27 pm


Our supervisors are working 6 days a week 12 and 13 hours a day. What most employees don’t know is they will say they are not getting overtime, but they are getting straight time for all those hours. 2 of our supervisors are getting 25 to 28 hours extra every week and we don’t need them their. They are only harrasing all the employees and making their wallets fat. Is this happening in your office?

sic of it on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 6:58 pm


prefund it all’ then when you close it down all the retirees get their full pension.Or if you dont prefund it and when it is closed down all the retirees get screwed. leave the money in the bank

florida bob on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 8:55 pm


give us $1000. per year of service and add 8 years to our time…. and alot of csrs people will be gone…. i do not want to lose my house. offering less, i’d rather stay another 8 years. thank you.

taras on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 9:53 pm


LOOK: Wave the 55year age limit with 2% penalty/year for full benefits and tens of thousands will go.
10,000 + 10,000+ 10,000 +…

Ty on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 10:28 pm


I wish congress and America would get on board and get a grip of what is really going on with the USPS. Cut jobs? YES cut jobs… cut 75% of management!!! That is the only position within the postal service that is NOT moving the mail. Does every station really need a post master? Why do we need a District manager if we have an area manager? Why do we need a Manger of Postal Operations if we have a District manger? The postal service has a manager for the manager for the manager for the manager for the post master for the station manager for the supervisor… REALLY?!??!? Do we need 1(one) supervisor/manager for 10 yes TEN employees??? And congress wants to cut labor jobs? If all the labor jobs are cut does that mean management is going to sort and carry mail? In my opinion, every manager that has been promoted couldn’t cut it as a clerk, mail handler or carrier and so they got promoted. The worst of the worst are the ones trying to manage the Post Office … They couldn’t do what we do everyday so they got promoted. No wonder they invented micro-manage everything… they couldnt do so they think we can’t. To be quite honest … WE DONT NEED MANAGEMENT AT ALL. Cut jobs? Yes cut management … try 1 supervisor for every 30 or 40 employees. That would be a qualified supervisor… IM JUST SAYING!!

#1 Supervisor on Sat, 1st Oct 2011 11:05 pm


C’mon. You guys know you need me. Who else is going to kick you in the ass to make you do something?

jean on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 4:24 am


We are told as employee’s not to talk to the public or the press about the USPS.
I thought freedom of speech was one of our constitutional rights.I truly believe management is trying to get workers to quit or get them fired.They are treating the workers horrible and the customers are getting no service. I am embarrassed and ashamed at the treatment of our customers.They may as well take the service out of united states postal.I pray for an early out without penalties 27 years I have in and am being treated like a two year old by management who knows nothing and barely has 6 yrs in giving direct orders to not give service to the public.

Fred on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 6:55 am


I’m also ready to hit the road, bring on the VERA, give us 3-5 years and you can keep your money….I’m gone…like a flash out the door….I want away from all this stress NOW!

Mrs K on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 6:56 am


Management has no idea about what’s going on on the road. Like I said once before IF MAIL VOLUME IS DOWN WHAT IS THERE FOR MANAGEMENT TO COUNT!!!!They abviously don’t know how to handle problems if a customer calls and they have to ask us why the problem exists. District knows how much mail is coming into each office to deliver why do we need mgmt.??Doesn’t DOIS tell them what to do????? It sure knows how to tell them that the hour yesterday is now a half hour today.I hope they all end up on the street again. F__k em. Show me no penalties and I’ll be out the door FIRST!!! THE SOONER THE BETTER!!!!

Mr. Correct on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 8:21 am


@ Firepotter. Hey , You need to learn your definitions. By definition, corporations can’t be fascists. Fascism is a totalitarian principle, where the State ( which means Government ) allows the private ownership of companies, but totally controls them. Kinda like what obama likes to do through overregulation of everything. You would be correct if you called him a fascist. By the way , obama is also a marxist. Why, because the definition of Marxism is the overthrow of capitalism, with the eventual attainment of a classless society, with the State controlling the means of production. If you think that obama gives a shit about you, you would be very uninformed. People, in his eyes you are all just Serf’s. Just go read” The road to serfdom,” which was written decades ago about Russia. BY the way, SERF’S is the russian way to say slaves. Slaves to government control.

RickMeisterMolman on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 9:01 am


It cannot be saved, take the early outs and incentives and breath a deep sigh of relief and move on with your life, let these dirtbags and assvisors deal with it, its not worth your Health anymore, you cannot change these people, it is time to go , if you have the time in, go, end of a long horror story.
These people, Politicians, Managers, TeaCup swindlers are peasants and simple minds, anyone with any amount of experience know its like talking to your senile neighbor about keeping his yard clean, you don’t resolve anything.
Issa thinks hes the next Clark Gable, auditioning for the Old ladies down in Florida, flat out lieing SOB, it always shows what S*&^T you get with what money can buy.

No on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 9:14 am


Employees elgible to retire should be notified by OPM as to the effective date and options available. 65-70 yrs. with 35-40 service time should leave to give younger employees with families an opportunity to work necessary time to have a retirement. Older employees with age and 35-40 years service time awaiting a buyout. They should be retired by OPM and notified as to effective date otherwise they will be around on life support.

Lil Daddy on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 9:42 am


Ms K, I agree with you.Put these pieces of SHIT mgmt. back on the street and see if they can do what we do! It’s like the old game show name that tune where contestants name a tune with as little notes of the song as possible.Mgmt. tells us that we don’t need as much time as we asked for to deliver the mail.I tell them you do in the time you expect me to do it in!
Sorry people but if the money is right, color me GONE.

Firepotter on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 10:28 am


Mr. correct I get it from the horse’s mouth
Benito Mussolini quotes:
” Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
“Fascism is a religious concept”
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power”
Are you threatened by the workers saving the Postal service? Why don’t you move to Italy where the workers hung Mussolini and his family and let them rot in the street for a month?

Firepotter on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 11:35 am


The republicon tea bagging Coup d’Etat will be over in 2012. So you think it is ok for the Koch brothers to finance 687 tea-bag politicians so he can privatize the EPA that will fine him 3 billion dollars for choking us all with his paper towel factory smoke stacks. He spent over a billion dollars to try and buy our country’s’ government. Yes the Koch brothers are fascists and you won’t succeed in buying our government. The Supreme Court needs to be recalled for allowing it. It should be treason for a politician to accept an unlimited amount of money for a political position. 2012 will be the end of your Coup d’Etat.

FIREDONOHUE on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 11:44 am


Management at USPS is a farce!Get rid of all the free-loading managers!They are paid way more than the workers,and do nothing!The public is lead to believe that the 220,000 employee downsizing is for all employees,when in fact it is only for the workers….not the dopey,lazy managers that are sucking us dry!!!!!!These loafing dufuses wasted $29M alone in Fiscal 2010 by WILLFULLY violating the labor contracts because they are too lazy and stupid to figure out each day how to manage their workforce!!!!!Start doing your stinking job as a manager!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm done. on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 2:08 pm


I am a Postmaster in a level 11 office. I work alone in my office. I have 26 1/2 years. I will gladly take a VERA. Then there will be no Postmaster in the office and the USPS will be able to close the office. They keep talking about closings but no one seems to remember the savings of closing all level 11 offices and below in the nation. The savings would be seven tenths of one percent of the budget. It seems to me like they want to get rid of these offices just to reduce the small headaches. This will hurt rural America. But I will go if the offer is made. I love the community I was raised in and I will miss my job. I love being a Postmaster. We are going back to the 1980′s as far as distribution. There is no overstaffing in our area. We have Postmasters working six days a week (in level 13′s and below) and clerks working their tails off in larger offices due to short staffing and not hiring PMR’s.
Offer me the VERA please.

obama sucks dick on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 2:09 pm


Sorry, the PO was doomed from the day it began and the PO Dept stopped being part of govt. We make a ton more money now while in the 60s & 70s we made a ton less. No middle ground.. employees of all levels priced themselves out of a job,,, (called employees as there are no ‘workers’ or ‘labor’ at the PO). I was there 38 years and retired over a decade ago,,,,, and you guys still WHINE instead of looking for solutions!

Firepotter on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 2:21 pm


The only solution is to fire all management and labor to take over. Labor was doomed when you voted to trade the right to strike for cost of living allowances.
YOU SUCK WITH ISSA’S TEABAG OVER YOUR BLIND EYES.

john on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 2:48 pm


Add five years to my service time that i can use toward retirement and I am gone otherwise I will have to work it and collect, annual leave, sick leave, health benefits, holidays, etc. It only makes sense to offer five years added to service time, you save a boat load of money that way and you get rid of senior people. J.

Not your Supervisor on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 5:12 pm


To all of you naysayers who state there is 1 supervisor for 4 employees, well not in my office. I am 1 of 2 supervisors with 56 employee (41 carriers in 2 zones 13 clerks and 2 custodians and 1 Voma). Yes I work 12 to 14 hours per day making sure I have enough staffing to ensure mail delivery. Do I do this to make my pockets fat? No I do it so I can complete my work do street supervision, do my reports, clean clock rings, handle customers on the phone, email and in person, and most important, so I don’t get called to the carpet for having “after 7′s”…that is carriers on the street after 7pm. I don’t harrass my employees, as a matter of fact they enjoy working under my supervision and their performance proves it. You all need to stop the whining about too much supervison. At my level, we are understaffed!

MICHAEL PAGLIARO on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 5:29 pm


I GOT 29 YEARS IN. SHOW ME THE OFFER,BROTHER AND I’N GONE WITH THE WIND!!!

MICHAEL PAGLIARO on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 5:32 pm


TELL THAT DOUCHBAG ISSA TO JUST DIE ALREADY. BRING HIM OVER TO STATEN ISLAND WE’LL BREAK HIS FUCKING LEGS AND SET HIM ON FIRE THAT MOTHERS CUNT BASTARD!!! DON’T FUCK WITH THE POST OFFICE!!!

florida bob on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 5:39 pm


give us $50 k and 6 years added service…. i will be outa here.

mojo on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 5:40 pm


In my nearly 27 years as a carrier, at 7 different stations, I have NEVER seen a supervisor, manager, or Postmaster work 12-14 hours a day. Some 204-b’s have worked those hours, but only rarely.

Bozo on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 6:00 pm


I want a firm handshake and a kiss on the cheek. Then and only then will I leave early!

doug mulholland on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 6:53 pm


mr. correct is a right wing asshole..remember the nazi ss..obama has nothing to do with it…FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL..STUPIDS it is out there…you talk about overtime look at TRANSPORTATION…Fed-Ex was paid 1.7 billion las year alone…all they do is fly mail…we have to pay contractors to load and unload the fed-ex containers…another 700 million per year…and then there is the the truck volume..many carry 3-5 apcs..several thousand dollars.on two way trips 5-6 days weekly..what a waste by the way i have 38 yrs ..don’t expect nothing they will sceew in a minute BUT don’t blame obama..blame the assholes that you work for and mis management that they get bonuses for

Firepotter on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 7:02 pm


Get rid of the inbred idiot managers and I will work till I am 8o and it would be a good place to work. This is why management ranks are increasing so they force out the union workers and eliminate customer service. Then the corporations can privatize our last freedoms of information.

Mr_Postman on Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 11:19 pm


If you work for the USPS like I have for over 28 years, it’s consistent with management’s “practices” to want to lay off over 200,000 people. It’s not surprising they want to try this. They know damn well they cannot permanently do this, and get the mail delivered. They break our national agreement often, and lose grievances most of the time. We’re short-handed all the time at our small Kansas post office. We have part-time carriers from other towns in our area who are required to drive to different towns, and carry mail whenever and wherever they need them. Some of them have gotten tired of this, and have quit, which is what the USPS wants them to do. One lady from a nearby office who quit had over 7 years of employment. The USPS gets about 1.8 million NEW addresses every year, so who’s going to carry those newly created routes? As far as I’m concerned, here’s the USPS game plan… lay off over 200,000 people. Disrupt mail delivery so people will complain, and a “new workforce” of 200,000 will have to be hired at 1/2 the pay of the “old workforce.” Yeah, force me out of the job that I’ve worked hard at for over 28 years. Lay me off so I can get on unemployment for a while. I’ll sit at home and whistle Dixie until our union can nail the USPS on age discrimination and other unfair labor practices. I should be able to collect on back pay like everybody else the USPS has tried to screw over. With over 200,000 disgruntled, pissed off, laid off postal employees needing a huge class-action lawsuit against the USPS, I’d say the lawyers will be pouring out of the woodwork like water out of a fire hydrant.

60's dude on Mon, 3rd Oct 2011 2:54 am


Mr. Correct, go back and look up your definitions again. You (typical for Teabag Morons) don’t know what you are talking about. And compare Republican rhetoric to the Nazi (fascist) rhetoric. Amazingly similar. Dumbass.

Fred on Mon, 3rd Oct 2011 4:44 am


I’m sure everyone will agree with me here when I say “Screw ups move up” and that is why the USPS is in the shape its in. At our office you could get rid of the PM – doesn’t do one blasted thing for his $104,500.00 yearly pay, and as for the stupidvisors, they are about the worst thing going. All the workers know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it well…so who needs them also….yet like I said before, bring on the early out (VERA) and I’m gone…I need 15 months to retire and take my health insurance with me, which as you all know you need 5 continous years within your health insurance to take it with you, unless a VERA is offered and then and only then can you take it with you with less then the 5 years. So bring it on, they want to get rid of people, offer some years and they will wipe out our office in a heart beat and I’ll be the first one flying out the freaking door…enough already!

frank on Mon, 3rd Oct 2011 6:40 am


Management is cutting their own throat. They’ve been talking about an early out/ buy out for a two-three years. So what happens? Carriers that could already retire are hanging on. They’re afraid to retire and then an offer comes out. Either say there is no early out or there is. stop the rumors.

Adolf H on Mon, 3rd Oct 2011 8:21 am


It is time to rise up and kill the overseers,anarchy is here!.

james on Mon, 3rd Oct 2011 9:39 am


CUT THE WORKFORCE WHAT A FRIEKING JOKE.THEY WANT TO HELP CUSTOMER SERVICE WHAT ANOTHER JOKE. MAYBE I WILL WAIT IN LINE NOW 30 MINUTES INSTEAD OF 45.CONSOLODATE OUR OFFICE WITH ONE THAT CANT HANDLE THERE OWN MAIL NOW. GIVE ME A BREAK.TO ALL MY FELLOW POSTAL WORKERS KEEP VOTING REPUBLICAN AND GET YOUR WAL MART VEST READY

BeMyDaddy on Mon, 3rd Oct 2011 2:14 pm


Not one of those bastard Postmasters can even look an employee in the eye and say hello, all they do is run and hide in the Offices they work at, not a damn thing they do to be earning the money they do, cut those assholes loose along with the tag along dueschbag Station Managers that take off early to go shopping and dining outing on the clock and fatten their big asses even more.
Its so clearly seen with every damn Postal facility across the Nation, why is Management not shown the door or policed so you can get them the hell out of there, cut the needless positions and quit wasting the damn money the PO doesn’t have!!!

Bill on Tue, 4th Oct 2011 10:52 am


Of course they want to replace your so called highly paid job. Just think the post office made all its bills when the mail was sorted by hand, but now with all its cost saving automated equipment its going broke. Bullshit I say. Congress and upper management want the USPS privatized so upper management can get big pay raises. Oh ya, the workers can be replaced with min wage, no health insurance, no sick leave, no vacation, no retirement, no 401k, no union, Just do as I say or I will fire you, that will be managements new whip.
Have a nice Day and remember why our grandparents fought for Union rights.

john on Wed, 5th Oct 2011 5:43 pm


Give me six years added on to my service and I will be gone. Simple as that. Keep your money, just give me the time so it will help me in my retirement pension and I will be gone and so will a lot of other people…nearly all senior people, so the majority of your highest salaried people will be gone. It just makes good logical sense with no money off the top. J.

Mrs E. on Wed, 5th Oct 2011 7:44 pm


The Postal service has NEVER offered rurals a vera. I have 22 years as a reguler in and am not old enough yet, if they offered me all my benefits and no penalty tomorrow I would be out the door. I know many other rurals that would also. This would give our subs the chance at a regular position. If they go to 5 day delivery many many subs will walk away. I am in a level 20 office and my managers do work 10,11,and12 hours, sometimes eating lunch in while answering phones and doing paperwork. Not everyone is a slug. I have been proud to work for the USPS for 28 years. However yes I would love the chance to retire early. I hope the USPS can recover themselves. I would hate for this historical entity to be shut down.

Steve on Wed, 5th Oct 2011 9:02 pm


Congress has ripped off the Postal Service with the prefunding retirement like 50 years out, now it wants to look like it is saving the Postal service. Congress is the one who has caused this.

Joe Blow on Sat, 8th Oct 2011 1:39 am


Seen to many waiting for a buyout, died before it came. Otheres, ohhh, 2 more years and I get THIS MUCH MORE,,,,,They come back a year later to say hi!!! Month later read on bulliten board, Joe Blow died, ,,Took my retirement now and outta of there.
OMG, what time is it? Dont know, dont care, just wake up, look out the window.
Oh daylight, or dark, ok, I got a 12 hour handle on it!!! Eat, shit, sleep, shop, TV and computer when I FEEL like IT!!! Took a week to stop looking at a clock, thinking oh, almost time to get ready for work, or hit the shower. Oh, the boys at work doing this or that, hell with it. LIFE is SHORT people, get out if can, slave shop comming to you soon. Retire and smile at the world…………..I would tell you my plans BUT you people could NOT handle it, get, start a NEW LIFE!!! Joe Blow signing out!
Look me up in the TROPICS ha ha ha ha ha Amping kanunay!!!

IMPEACHISSA on Sat, 8th Oct 2011 7:47 pm


If a VERA is offered I am gone in half a heartbeat;Issa,Roth,PMG have all duped the clueless American public with their lies!!!!!!!The day that I send in my paperwork will be the happiest day of my life!!!!!!! I want to start living again!!!!!! I can almost smell and taste the VERA!!!!!!!!!!!!Glad that I scrimped and saved all these years!!!!!!!!!!!!!Dear PMG and OPM: Please offer a VERA; I will be the first in line to accept your offer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let my people go and go and go….in droves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I implore you PMG and OPM…….have a heart and offer us the VERA.

Micheal on Wed, 12th Oct 2011 5:19 pm


Layoff hundreds of thousands to cover up the largest discrimination violations in U.S. history.

mailmanlou on Sun, 16th Oct 2011 10:23 pm


it only makes sense to offer an early out! i am 50 yrs. old with 27.5 years of service. think about it….. if they offer an early out, they no longer give me paid holidays-annual leave (i get 8 hrs. p.p.) -sick leave-contribute to my tsp (5%,big deal) give me 5 yrs. of service,no penalties, and a little $$$ and i will leave skidmarks to the door. thousands of workers will take that deal. then they can hire additional workers at cut rate salaries with little to no benefits to pick up the slack. i’m tired of all the b.s. do whats right and give us employees, who have put up with your crap for all these years ,a proper and fair sendoff.

TOO BIG TO FAIL! on Tue, 18th Oct 2011 9:18 am


I’m a clerk in a St Louis suburb with 28.5 years. My office is short staffed every single day. Some days we we do distribution with three people and the window with one person! Used to take 14 clerks. Meanwhile we carry 6-7 managers/204-b’s that ride herd. You are treated with contempt. I am told where to stand, what to wear, what to say (word for word!), when to lunch and when to break. I have to ask permission to go to the bathroom. They time my breaks. They gave all of us hour lunches to disrupt your personal life and changed our schedules to put us in rush hour traffic. There is no laughter. Music not allowed. I worked the window the day after the holiday while THREE managers documented my every move. It’s NEVER fun. The hopelessness and stress lay on you like a heavy blanket…

Meanwhile the managers delay and hide mail. They throw unverified UBBM in the trash. They scan lock box hours before it is done. They work the window, prepare dispatch, and man the accountable cart because we don’t have any clerks. Overtime generally goes to collaborators and management stooges.
Where are our unions?

There is a terrible human cost to working on a hopeless chain gang with no future. Over the years we have had TWO suicides, FOUR brain tumors, FIFTEEN divorces, nervous breakdowns, dependency issues. AND IT’S GETTING WORSE!

After the price I have paid I refuse to walk away without health care! If I have to be raped by Vikings on a daily basis I will do what it takes but I pray they have an early out so I can escape this nightmare. My office would become an empty building except for the Hitler youth gang of managers. They deserve this Hell.

michael bernstein on Wed, 19th Oct 2011 6:31 pm


i have 32 years in the po now. im 57years old just give me my full pension 80% and im gone where can i sign up im from the bronx n.y

Mari on Thu, 20th Oct 2011 8:45 am


Hey I only have 22yrs in but have had 3operations due to on the job injuries. The injuries are to my hands, forearms, neck and back and yes I am on restrictive duty. I would love to retire from the P.O. since my doctor had been too much of a coward to tell the DOL I can’t work anymore. He started seeing me as an inconvenience and told me to “learn how to live with the pain”. I can’t take it anymore and if they give a decent offer eventhough I don’t have the yrs or age I think I will take it, sell my house, see what I get from scheduled award and call it a day. My body can’t take the day to day anymore, they don’t even factor in that you have a life outside the post office and need your health to do the basic things in your everyday life routine as well. I’m so tired of it all. Millie