THE BULLETIN BOARD
January 2010
[January 7th]Scanning and Delaying
Once again, it appears that inappropriate practices are spreading like disease from office to office in the Western PA District.
And once again, the USPS wants to pretend "it" isn't happening and asks that clerks report those problem areas to PMAPWU so that we may relay the reports to the District Manager, who in turn will turn them over to the Office of Inspector General to investigate. This is serious stuff.
If you are scanning box mail as being completed before it is actually completed— this is wrong! Clerks that have reported this practice say that they have either been instructed or pressured to do this by management and/or this practice is both known and tolerated by management.
It is highly recommended that you report this to PMAPWU ASAP, before becoming subject to an OIG Investigation.
We also receive reports that mail is being scanned for delivery on one date and only after it doesn't make the scheduled dispatch/delivery date, the "color code" is changed for a later delivery date— often without being re-scanned. This must also be reported to PMAPWU, for the same reason.
Please protect yourself and do not pretend "it" isn't happening. Sooner of later "it" will be exposed, and "it" may come down to "who" and not "if" to blame.
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION AND NOT THE PROBLEM.
[January 7th]USPS Career Staffing Drops Below 600,000
from PostalNewsBlog.com
The US Postal Service ended the calendar year with 599,655 career employees, a drop of 57,118, or 8.7% from the same period last year. Decreases were steepest in mail processing operations (-13.7%), and customer service positions at post offices (-14.5%). Those operations had been the target of early retirement offers earlier in the year. Delivery operations saw much lower attrition, with city delivery staffing down -5.2%, and rurals down -1.7%.
Headquarters saw an increase of 138 positions, or +4.9%. That increase, however, was more than offset by a decrease of 327, or -25% for employees at Area offices. Those figures reflect the fact that some former area positions now report directly to HQ, as well as reductions in authorized staffing at the Areas, and the elimination of the New York Metro Area office.
By employee type, the largest reduction came in the clerk craft, down 29,234 employees, or -15.3%. Mailhandlers were down by 5,145, or -9.4%; city carriers -10,597, or -5.1%, supervisors and managers -3,313 or 10.4%; and professional, administrative and technical employees -1,564 or -19.8%.
The numbers reflect actual employees on the rolls (not authorized positions) as of the beginning of pay period 26. They don't reflect retirements that occurred at the beginning of this month.
[January 1st]USPS May Move Wheeling Mail Processing to Pittsburgh
excerpted from Wheeling News-Register, 12/31/09
The postal service recently completed its Area Mail Processing study that shows the struggling organization can save the $527,000 by moving its outgoing operations from Wheeling to Pittsburgh. The service expects only six employee positions to be affected by the proposed move.
Wheeling City Council unanimously approved a resolution asking the postal service to keep the processing jobs in Wheeling. U.S. Sens. Robert C. Byrd and Jay Rockefeller, both D-W.Va., also mailed a letter to McCreadie to request the service retain its operations in the Friendly City.
Read the entire article online.
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