From the National Association of Postal Supervisors:
NAPS Members,
The Postal Service held informational sessions on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 in advance of the release of the listing of Plant closures and consolidations that has been released today. NAPS was provided a copy of the list this morning and has provided this list to you along with this message.
There are still many unanswered questions that will be resolved shortly. One of the biggest questions from our membership is the possibility of an incentive that would accompany the closures and consolidations. While the final decision has not yet been made, in the meetings that the resident officers have participated in, we have been advised that there will be an incentive option but that the final decision on the exact parameters of the proposed incentives have not been completed. As soon as any incentive plan is announced, NAPS headquarters will disseminate the information to the field.
The resident officers are attending a briefing with the Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Should any new information be shared at the briefing that is not included in this message we will send it to you upon our return to our headquarters offices.
Please share the Plant closure and consolidation information with your membership. Also reinforce the need to be in contact with your United States Senators about the recommended changes that we are supporting for S 1789.
via NAPS
Linda, you sound like my ex-wife! Same name too -LOL But, I agree with what you say. Some need a baby sitter at work more than others. I guess supervisor help keep us bad boys in line. No ones perfect. But, apparently a few of us are 😉
Most folks here are on the right track on how to save the post office. I too will do my part when the offer CSRS employees retirement incentives! In the meantime… Customers can complain to me all they want… Of it gets really bad, thats when I call a supervisor! They just don’t pay me enough to take the bullet 🙂 Besides, im tired of being shot up. A supervisor can handle it thou… They’re invincible, right?
They should offer any early retirement to all areas not just the ones that are closing offices, this would open jobs for the people that aren’t ready to retire.
For all the sarcastic remarks about supervisors, if the craft employees could use the time clock correctly,complete the leave slips right and on time, work safely so you won’t get into accidentss or have a injury, do their duties as they were trained, be helpful to our customers,work 8 hours for 8 hours pay, etc, we might not need supervisors. I remember when people were happy to have a decent job with benefits, and were proud to work for a good company and tried to do the best job they could to help our customers and deliver the mail properly. If they did we might not be losing so many customers to other companies or going to 5 day work weeks. Do to you really want your kids to think that the Post Office or anyone owes you money when you haven’t done the best that you can, that you should get it for just complaining. I can’t believe some of these remarks, if you hate it so much quit!! And yes I am a supervisor but I was a carrier too, I worked hard to be promoted and it isn’t a easy job either.
When are we going to see nifty jobs for management, we have a manager and a supervisor at my carrier unit. One can work 6am till noon 6 days a week and the other noon till 6pm six days a week. You just do this every where across the country and save alot of money,and they cant do nothing to stop it,there is always a 959 or two in the station doing clerk work that can help them out also onnly one telecon a day instead of three or four.
Let’s get rid of the board of Gov’s and anybody that dosen’t put their hands oin the mail.These people are the deadwood of the postal service.Give the CSRS employees the first crack at buyout/incentive.
I have heard there are far more FERS people than CSRS at this time. I dont understand where consolidation will lead to savings if you cant lay off people and actually get rid of salaries and benefits. and what do you do with the people who are in the to be closed plants?? I advocate a single national seniority roster including all crafts and EAS. you want to lay off let’s say 40,000. you go to the bottom of the list and start cutting.
Please, begone, as you were Decembers children and never anyone elses. Allow the new lions their Tues/Wed on Tour 1. While you may laugh on what you deem this new media, verily, you are scoffed upon your nightly arrival. One more day, month, year weighted against your ever-diminishing chance for an honorable career redemption.
If incentives are coming soon how will opm be able to handle the exits? Seems like they are having trouble with what they are doing now!
For MooseLamb !PMG Donahoe 2/22/12- and all MooseLambs As we heard from the Postmaster General in his video, if the Postal Service reduces the size of its network, it also will have to reduce the size of the workforce. In that regard, the Postal Service is continuing to work with the unions and management associations about possible incentives. Let me be clear: there is a decision on possible incentives at this point in time, and further details on what an incentive offer would entail, will be forthcoming this week and next. The incentive program is approved and will be offered, details will be posted on the new HR Web page, Workforce Connection, all FERS Clerk Craft Employees may receive additional information in the mail.
@ksolo…couldn’t have said it better myself!! Awesome insight!
“APWU & NPMHU members have done a great job of getting the word out to legislators about our concerns: Keep up the good work ,support S-1789”
— Cliff Guffey, President
Call Your Senators:
202-224-3121
(Capitol Switchboard)
[Click here for direct #s]
Tell them you Support
S. 1789 as it is currently written
GOOGLE……….U.S. SENATE………Choose your “SENATOR HOME” State. Look for the area in which to write and send your comment.
I wrote ” I work for the U.S.P.S. and I do not oppose S1789 in it’s current form”. This bill offers three types of incentives not to be combined.
1. 25,000 cash.
2. 3 years added on to your FERS retirement
3. 2 years added on to your CSRS retirement.
* NOTE: Remember you can only choose one of the three.
A potential Senate floor vote on which NAPUS will be focusing will be a motion to “waive a point of order” against the bill for violating a Senate budget rule. We expect that an anti-postal Senator will raise such a point of order against the bill. NAPUS will push for a waiver, because congressional budget rules are inherently unfair to the USPS and prejudicial to implementing postal relief.
In the meantime, NAPUS will continue to work with Senate allies pass S. 1789, and that the measure will garner the requisite votes for passage.
I have almost 26 years in the PO. Family has had many members with the PO since about 1915 +/-. We do have many supervisors that could not get in a job in the real world. We also have employees, craft, that soak up the money but do little if any work. Continual walking around and chatting and how many cigarette breaks does one deserve? Every 1/2 hour? If they get a smoke break then so should non-smoking get the same break. So while eliminating jobs get rid of the dead, useless, non-working employees with and without a tie on.
I for one am waiting for a cash buyout and I am out the door and moving from this country of taxes and more more laws coming to one where at least I know what I can expect.
A complete CSRS system buyout or cash & time incentive program would make most sence. Oh!! thats right we are talking about postal management! Sorry !!
Responding to Jason Nyberg ….It is funny that you say what you said. I gather you are a carrier with very little exprience. If true, ask yourself how much skill does it take to match an address on a letter, to an address on a house. Just maybe your seven year old dog has a great chance at doing this also. …….For those you who believe the failing of the Postal Service, can somehow be saved by just removing those who are in management, ask your self the same about our fellow craft employees who are always in trouble. Who are always being protected by the Unions, for the same behavior. How much would you estimate is the cost being watsed there, defending those individuals? I have been in this company for 30 years and removing someone from their position because of their behavior is next to impossible. Employee injuries never get better, therefore permanent light duty. Than, they are top bowler on the team on Saturdays…The major reasons behind our failing is the increase in Labor cost. This includes the abuse of FMLA and sick leave usage as well as increased operating cost and salaries. Get smart. we are all going to be out of a job very shortly and it is not due to one specific craft or position. You show your ignorance when you make simple and idotic statements such as abolish unions and/or get rid of management. What do you have to fall back on if you were to lose your job?
I find it amazing that some can’t see beyond how ‘some’ supervisors don’t do their job well—REALLY! That’s the only intellect you have about the seriousness of the closings/consolidations–REALLY?!?!!? Do you think that headquarters needs all the positions in that office? No comments about those guys—REALLY! I have 18 years in the Postal Service, and trust me, some supervisors aren’t the only waste of money–look in the mirror and at ‘some’ of your coworkers!!
Parts of the S.1789 bill is good short-term for the Postal Servicee employees, but long-term there are parts of it that’s not positive! This bill need to looked at and made to the good of all postal workers as far as their pensions, and health benefits are concerned. The HR 1351 bill should also be included in this discussion. This is would recover the $50 billion overpayment already that has been stated by the OIG. Stop changing postal workers! Keep the universal mail service available to all americans! Rural america also!
how much they pay for the VERA? nobody go with the cheap price.
Have a national lottery with the post offices as ticket holders. Allow the Post Office to advertise on the stamp (coke, nike, pepsi, etc.). No retrictions on shipping (beer, wine, etc.). Do away with saturday delivery (it will save billions in gasoline which is steadily going up). Offer incentives for those that want to leave and rehire at a lower rate. Have production standards by “all” employees and give incentives to those that work hard. Fire incompetent managers and employees. Knock out Postal Waste such as VOE, EIDP, and so on. “Stop unnecessary details which causes tons of money on per diem, gas money, and so on. Put a stop to unnecessary plant closures that only cost us more money (and they do).
The logical thing to do is to offer a lucrative incentive to CSRS employees and any other employees who desire to leave. This will open slots for employees who are forced out of their jobs. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out! Makes you wonder…huh?
hey,,, hey … don’t start push employess early out.. get out of customerass out and stupidvior , also manager,too… !!!!! I notice they leave early go play golf..
Corrected copy
USPS Notifies Employees of Consolidations
APWU Continues to Oppose Plan
To Slash Service, Jobs, Network
APWU Web News Article 012-2012, Feb. 22, 2012
At the national level, the union has been working to win support for amendments to the 21 st Century Postal Service Act (S. 1789), which is expected to come up for a vote in the Senate soon.
Twenty-seven senators signed a letter to the authors of S. 1789 on Feb. 14, asking them to pass S.1789 which the APWU supports — to maintain current service standards, protect rural post offices, maintain six-day delivery, and establish a blue-ribbon panel to examine how the Postal Service can earn additional revenue by offering new services.
“As the USPS prepares to announce which facilities it will close, it is critical that APWU members reach out to their senators and ask them to support the S. 1789,” Guffey said. (Click here to find out how).
S. 1789 is acceptable in its current form because it adequately addresses the cause of the Postal Service’s financial difficulties — a Congressionally-manufactured crisis resulting from mandates in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the union says.
“As currently written, S. 1789 would leave the Postal Service flush with cash, and lead to Early Retirement Incentives for APWU Craft membership.
They’re Not Waiting, We Can’t Wait
“If the Postal Service degrades service standards before postal reform is enacted, stopping massive consolidations will be that much more difficult,” Guffey said. “Congress must take action!”, and Pass S.1789 !
Congress is in recess this week, but the union president is urging members to contact their senators immediately to urge them to support the amendments endorsed by the APWU.
Call Your Senators
202-224-3121
(Capitol Switchboard)
[Click here for direct #s]
Tell them you Support
S. 1789 as it is currently written
USPS Notifies Employees of Consolidations
APWU Continues to Oppose Plan
To Slash Service, Jobs, Network
APWU Web News Article 012-2012, Feb. 22, 2012
At the national level, the union has been working to win support for amendments to the 21 st Century Postal Service Act (S. 1789), which is expected to come up for a vote in the Senate soon.
Twenty-seven senators signed a letter to the authors of S. 1789 on Feb. 14, asking them to pass S.1789 which the APWU supports — to maintain current service standards, protect rural post offices, maintain six-day delivery, and establish a blue-ribbon panel to examine how the Postal Service can earn additional revenue by offering new services.
“As the USPS prepares to announce which facilities it will close, it is critical that APWU members reach out to their senators and ask them to support the S. 1789,” Guffey said. (Click here to find out how).
S. 1789 is acceptable in its current form because it adequately addresses the cause of the Postal Service’s financial difficulties — a Congressionally-manufactured crisis resulting from mandates in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the union says.
“As currently written, S. 1789 would leave the Postal Service flush with cash, and lead to Early Retirement Incentives for APWU Craft membership.
They’re Not Waiting, We Can’t Wait
“If the Postal Service degrades service standards before postal reform is enacted, stopping massive consolidations will be that much more difficult,” Guffey said. “Congress must take action!”, and Pass S.1789 !
Congress is in recess this week, but the union president is urging members to contact their senators immediately to urge them to support the amendments endorsed by the APWU.
Call Your Senators
202-224-3121
(Capitol Switchboard)
[Click here for direct #s]
Tell them you oppose
S. 1789 as it is currently written
They should offer incentives across the board to everyone. They have to eliminate jobs in Offices not closing to provide places for those that are not retirement eligible to fill.
I agree, start laying off supervisors. They are not worth the ink in my printer. My seven year old dog has better supervising skills than most STUPIDvisors. Just start with them, and leave us workers (who actually work) alone. No supervisor will ever read this because they all take naps or smoke breaks all day.
I’am loving retirement.You can drink the P.O cheap incentive. Fire supervisors they do not deserve an incentive, they have not worked.
NAPS: USPS Decision on Guidelines For Proposed Early Retirement Incentives has been Completed
February 23, 2012 by postal
Filed under: NAPS, postal, postal news
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors:
NAPS Members,
The Postal Service held informational sessions on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 in advance of the release of the listing of Plant closures and consolidations that has been released today. NAPS was provided a copy of the list this morning and has provided this list to you along with this message.
There will be many incentives that will accompany the closures and consolidations. While the final decision has not yet been made, in the meetings that the resident officers have participated in, we have been advised that there will be a cash incentive option but that the final decision on the exact parameters of the proposed incentives have not been completed. As soon as any incentive plan is announced, NAPS headquarters will disseminate the information to the field.
The resident officers are attending a briefing with the Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Should any new information be shared at the briefing that is not included in this message we will send it to you upon our return to our headquarters offices.
Please share the Plant closure and consolidation information with your membership. Also reinforce the need to be in contact with your United States Senators that we are supporting for S 1789.
The APWU and NALC have also been briefed on the above Early Retirement Incentives, which will begin with FERS Employees , and that announcement is forthcoming.
Anyone who already retired have no legal right to complain about what they received. Nobody twisted their arm. How would you prove the vera was the reason you retired? I like everyone else am biting at the bit to hear what the incentives will be,and who will be offered the incentives. I’m sure they want all the CSR’s to leave because that would be a huge savings. I’m hoping.
Lay off stupidvisors
If any Monetary Incentive is given, the PO will face a lot of Litigation in the form of Lawsuits claiming that over the last 4 years the PO “Baited” prospective Retirees with false statements about never offering a Monetary Incentive. Now what PO?
Hope Vera is for any who are eligible to go….that makes sense,since they want people to go.
USPS SHOULD JUST LAYOFF SUPERVISORS, ITS LEGAL, AND SHOULD BE USED AS A COST SAVINGS.