Posted on 03/24/2011 2:26:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
U.S. Postal Service to cut 7,500 jobs, close offices 31 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service said on Thursday it would cut 7,500 jobs and close seven district offices and 2,000 post offices as it handles less mail and faces greater staff costs and competition from FedEx and United Parcel Service.
"It's critical that we adjust our work force to match America's changing communications trends as mail volumes continue to decline," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in a statement.
In November, the Postal Service reported a net loss of $8.5 billion for fiscal year 2010, its fourth consecutive year of losses.
Joanne Veto, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, said, "We know that we cannot look the same 10 years from now. The mail volume isn't there. We have to adjust to keep up with the mail and customer needs."
She said the Postal Service would close 2,000 post offices around the United States over the next 12 months, while eliminating the 7,500 jobs.
As of the end of January, the agency employed 583,000 people.
The first round of job cuts are expected to be completed by May 31. As part of the first round of cuts, the Postal Service said it was offering voluntary early retirement of $20,000 paid over two years to employees 50 years old with 20 years of service, or any age with 25 years of service.
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Wow the US Postal Service is going to downsize by 0.0128644939965695 percent. No doubt they are going to offer generous early retirement packages to achieve this monumental reduction of 7500 jobs.
If ever a goverment agency begged to be privatized it is the USPS which outlived it usefullness the day that UPS was formed in 1907.
Did not think of that. Hopefully they will be ok.
Except, for some odd reason, every post office I’ve been in seems to never refill the Priority Mail or Express Mail envelope stand - or puts it in the secured area where you can’t get to it when they’re closed. So convenient! Not.
and most are extremely rude and lazy. Its shameful.
My sister’s mail lady (coming to her house) kept hitting her and her husband up for cash. They’re nice people and new her awhile so they’d loan it to her. She started out paying them back and then stopped. THEN...they found out she was stealing all kinds of things from people’s carports and garages and pawning them. She never got fired. Just reassigned.
Pathetic isn’t it?
They offered my dad a deal like this back in the early 1990s. There are alot of these guys who retired before age 60 and did well.
Your are correct on this!
you could potentially do postal service unmanned. 24/7 access with vending machine for stamps and supplies. An onsite scale machine with a computer to figure out insurance and different priority rates. Just need one person for odd requests lets say from 9-5 mon -fri. Just keep delivery people and loaders based on business needs.
All the APC’s really lack is the paper stock and ink tanks to print money orders. I can understand why they aren’t enabled since ram rading and electronic fraud would be a problem.
Other than that, the APC does 99% of everything I need the Post Office for.
Doubt it’s enough, but no suprise there.
All you folks posting negative stuff about USPS better check your freepmail. You will be amazed at the nasty freepmails you will get from postal workers who are freepers.
I posted some negative remarks a few weeks about about three packages missing within 6 months and got some vile emails. Typical of postal workers. Angry people.
(To those who sent me those nasty emails: yes, many of the female poster workers are obese overpaid nasty unhappy people, na-na-na-na)
I used to work with a guy whose main job was post office design and construction. He was some sort of project manager. Good guy and everything but as slow as they come.
He was such a penny pincher that he had his vacations planned out to the mile, all expenses, minimal (if any tips), the cheapest everything on the trip, and start/leave time to the half hour plotted on a spreadsheet and he would stick really close to it.
Throw in state government too.
95% of my mail is ADVERTISING. Why is the government in the business of delivery ads? I once heard a senior postal official say in an interview that a main role of the post office was to support the direct mail advertising industry. I kid you not. He actually said that. Unbelievable.
One thing they could do is stop running those goofy ads with the mail guy telling everyone to use flat rate boxes. Hell, that probably save a few million right there.
Privatize it.
LOL who could live like that?
wonder where the list of closures is
The man was a walking, mild mannered, and talkative spreadsheet. I can’t imagine what would pass for fun and games in his world. I never asked.
The trip timing reminds me of me. They call Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. LOL. OTOH I’m a good tipper.
You won't get nasty FReepmail from me, but I do find this all encompassing blanket comment and many others on this thread unfair. My brother, who is a two tour Viet Nam vet, began a second career with the postal service after he retired from the Air Force. He isn't angry, nasty, dim witted or any of the other negative things I'm reading on this thread. He is two years from retirement and has scrimped and saved all his hard working life and planned a retirement around his pension. Like many postal workers he takes pride in his work and doesn't deserve the ugly opinions I'm seeing here. There are bad apples in every group and there are outstanding human beings in every group too. I bet there are a few of both in your profession.
0.0128644939965695% cut...
Awesome, glad to see they’re taking it seriously.
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