USPS Reinstates Relocation Leave For Postal Execs

Handbook F-15-A Revision: Reinstatement of Relocation Leave for Eligible Executive and Administrative Schedule

Employees

Effective September 19, 2011, relocation leave for eligi­ble executive and administrative schedule (EAS) employ­ees has been reinstated. Handbook F-15-A, Relocation Policy — Non-Bargaining Executive and Administrative Schedule Employees, is revised to include relocation leave for eligible EAS employees.

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26 Relocation Leave

EAS employees are eligible to receive paid time off generally for the packing, delivering, and unpacking of household goods or at their manager’s discretion as long as it is related to relocation. Employees are authorized to use up to 5 days (8-hour incre­ments) of relocation leave. These days do not have to be con­secutive. This leave is also available to the employee’s spouse, if he or she is also employed by the Postal Service. Relocation leave is charged to Code 080 in TACS.

USPS eliminated the Relocation Leave policy effective  August 17, 2009 as part of major changes to Handbook F-15-A, Relocation Policy — Nonbargaining (EAS) Employees

  • Relocation leave is eliminated.

2-5.1 Relocation Leave
You are eligible for a maximum of up to five days of relocation leave (code 80). This leave is in addition to any other authorized travel time. It may be taken consecutively or as individual days but must be used by the time you settle into your new home. An actual physical move of the employee’s household is a requirement for eligibility for relocation leave. Your spouse may be eligible for relocation leave if the following conditions are met:
• Employed by the Postal Service.
• Moving with you.
• Awarded a position competitively.
• Successful candidate for a bid position at the new location if a bargaining employee.
Note: Not applicable to external hires or if transferring from another government agency.

In 2009 USPS OIG issued an Audit Report on Postal Service’s Relocation Policy. The OIG found

In CY 2008, the Postal Service spent $73 million for relocation benefits for more than 2,000 employees.3 In our view, some of the relocations that occurred during this period were exorbitant. In one instance, the Postal Service paid over $1.9 million to relocate a vehicle maintenance program analyst intrastate. The majority of this cost came from a $1.7 million loss on the sale of this employee’s home.

In another instance, as cited by the national media, the Postal Service paid $1.2 million to purchase an employee’s home through its real estate management firm. The revised February 2009 relocation procedures (including the $1 million home purchase ceiling)were not in place at the time the employee took a lateral transfer and relocated from South Carolina to Texas. The Postal Service has paid over $75,000 to date to move this employee. This includes $16,075 for the employee and his spouse to take a house hunting trip, including per diem and temporary living expenses. These costs were paid using a lump sum reimbursement process.

Although USPS issued revised relocation policies on August 13, 2009 the OIG recommended:

Consequently, until such policies associated with vacancy announcements and benefit limits are implemented and the Postal Service’s financial situation improves, we believe the Postal Service should consider freezing its relocation benefits program.

10 thoughts on “USPS Reinstates Relocation Leave For Postal Execs

  1. Okay, and you expect us all to believe that the USPS is in financial trouble, eh? Or are you trying to spend all the money you don’t have to pay for the retirees now, just to make sure you don’t have any left to offer an early out? You people should be PERSONALLY sued for gross mismanagment, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. You’re no better than freaking Hitler!

  2. So what? Retiring APWU officials (local & national) get a retirement umbrella that neither you or I can get. They get to double (and sometimes triple) dip while you get to continue paying dem dues to ensure that APWU retirement that they won’t talk about. Another little topic that is frequently not spoken of is the superseniority self preservation clause that keeps junior non vet union stewards at the facility while senior vet employees are excessed to points beyond. Yeah…the union fights for you but when its a toss up between you and them guess what? Its you on the short end of the stick. Lets face it folks…there’s plenty of dirty secrets in APWU that aren’t posted on this website, just like the one about that local so-cal union president that wears inserts to make him look taller ! Keep paying dem dues and the impending dues increase and assessments on the horizon.

  3. The Post Office is hemorrhaging cash because of the economic downturn, which we haven’t recovered from, and the pre-financing of retirees. Which is subsidizing the retirement of the entire federal workforce. Rich people do things like this ALL the time. Extract wealth from a company, then sell off the remains.

    ie: Mitt Romny’s Bain Capital…someone should ask the former employees of Ampad what they thing of Mitt’s awesome entrepreneurial spirit…lol

  4. we all treated bad i need a lawyer they fired her after she called in a bout anAPC crushing her foot they said she sould have MADE the 4supervisor do a report in other words go postal…know any that will take on the private sector of govmnt

  5. That’s nothing . Daryl Pishoff from the southeast district pulled a good one . He was bragging to his management friends how if when you moved you had 90 days to sell your house . If you didn’t sell , the post office had to buy your house . So he went and bought a $500,000 house in tampa . He stayed long enough to get the house built then went back to the southeast job he had . He invited all his stupidvisors over to watch t.v. in his movie room and play golf @ the country club . All the while i’m sure saying how employees were worthless scum bags . I’m sure it must be true . He had a masters in finance and he worked in the finance department for the post office . So he said he knew all the loop holes .

  6. PAY FOR PERFORMANCE. A WASTE OF TIME FOR THE UPPER ECHELON BRAIN TRUST. CLERKS-CARRIER HAVE TO TAKE UP SLACK PER MANIPULATED DOSIS NUMBERS.

  7. Have you ever heard the term “Self Destruction”? That’s what the USPS is. Those big bras in DC behaving like “Out of Control” children of Congress. If USPS is losing money, why in the world they would spend millions on that silly “flat rate priority mail” bombarded on TV everyday?

    USPS wants to lose the money deliberately and to achieve that: They closed so many post offices, reduced hours for stations, stopped passport process at many places, did not Christmas Stamps in our station for weeks, deliberately violate contract to “Waste” more money.

    Come on Congress, Mr. President, USPS OIG: USPS is “Out of Control” and it is time to strip Donahoe and his party of “Powers” and reform the USPS of 1960 under Federal Government Umbrella.

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  8. The more this goes on the more disqusting it gets.

    “In CY 2008, the Postal Service spent $73 million for relocation benefits for more than 2,000 employees.3 In our view, some of the relocations that occurred during this period were exorbitant. In one instance, the Postal Service paid over $1.9 million to relocate a vehicle maintenance program analyst intrastate. The majority of this cost came from a $1.7 million loss on the sale of this employee’s home.”

  9. I retired almost 4 years ago from the USPS. I see some things have not changed. The more worthless you are the better you are treated. This sounds like just one more example, but just make sure you treat the workers like garbage. Good kob Donahoe and BOG’s.

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