USPS To Expand National Reassessment Process With New Pilot Program??

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From PostalReporter.com reader:

“The Postal Service has announced it intends to expand the National Reassessment Process by implementing a Pilot Program for Limited Duty Modified Assignments. That should mean those who have not met their maximum medical improvement. It will be a “Pilot” program in 4 districts nationwide. USPS has set up a meeting with National on April 22 to discuss their intentions, which we all know is to reduce the workforce any way they can. I have been a rehab for approx 18 years. I have a full work day with more than enough to keep busy. USPS has had a stand up in the Santa Ana district saying they intend to start it ASAP (before the national meeting in April). But they intend to use this “Pilot” program to circumvent the established process of interviewing employees. They are saying that anyone not performing “productive and necessary work based on operational necessity” will be targeted. My manager said that means that any rehab, not only the limited duty assignments that USPS nationally has said would be included in pilot, will only be working an hour or two a day, then will be sent home. This is an obvious violation of the established NPR program. Has anyone else out there heard of this railroading policy happening in their area?”

87 thoughts on “USPS To Expand National Reassessment Process With New Pilot Program??”

  1. MORE EEO AND MORE LAWSUITS JUST WHAT THE PO NEEDS RIGHT NOW WHEN THEY ARE LOSING MONEY . I HAVE A IDEA PUT THE PEOPLE ON OWCP LIKE THEY SHOULD HAD BEEN FROM THE START SO THESE WHINNERS CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT THOSE WORKERS WHO COME TO WORK WHO DON’T WORK.

  2. Archer their backs obviously were not too sore if they had 6 kids! Too bad everyone can’t be as great as you. I bet you are a real ass kisser! SMOOCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. MailmanNeal, “necessary work” will be work that persons is now doing within that persons craft. That person {me} can also use s/l to fill the gap. SOOOOOOOOO I will be working “part time” makine FULL WAGES with FULL BENIES for YEARS TO COME. I was going to retire this year but can now REALLY kick back, and do less for a long, long thim. THNK YOU PO, NPR, and everyone that made this dream come true.

  4. We had the same standup today. “We are to be a test facility for a new program of the National Reassessment Program”. The way it was explained to us was that limited duty carriers would only be allowed to do “necessary work” and then sent home. They expected that the rehabs would only be working no more than 4 hours a day and OWCP would be responsible for any additional compensation. Under that scenario, they told us that injured employees would only accrue half of the their total current benefits of sick leave, annual leave, and retirement. Basically, they are trying to show them the door.

  5. The same thing going on at the Atlanta BMC. They don’t believe it but time will tell. Hurry up and clean up the Atlanta BMC and some that work say they can’t lift but don’t have any documentation and supv. and mgrs. don’t say nothing but soon are later they will also be gone. Say good bye to the good old boy system and who I like. You all so call injury employees it time for you to go you have been milking the system to long and I’m glad to see you go “HURRY UP AND GO” cause this a job and since you don’t want to work go home and sit on your lazy butt.

  6. Two major back surgeries, 4 months in the hospital, and the post office did not give a damn about me. 10 to 12 hours a day, and specials and express on Sunday, and Yes I am a rehab, and those of you who want to call me a slacker, you couldn’t carry my jock on any day!!!!!!

  7. I dont feel sorry for the PO. Workers get away with what the PO allows for them to get away with. The PO has numerous means to find out if an employee is truely injured but do not utilize them. As long as an employee is in a pay status they can be made to submit for a fitness for duty exam. I my facility this in never done. Most injured employees are not required to submit medical documentation every 30 days.

  8. I was recently hurt ( tore my rotator cuff on my shoulder) this was from repetitive work over 14 years of the same thing. I have been called BY MY FELLOW WORKERS AND MANAGEMENT as the hardest worker in my area. What did this get me a MAJOR injury from carrying other employees weight for many years. Now due to me recent surgery which was extremely painful I am now on comp and not even allowed in my building to work. My arm shakes lifting 2lb weights in physical therapy. I am not abusing the system but I will be penalized regardless. how is this fair to me? I hate the slackers too but I have never been 1 of them butthat will not matter.

  9. yes the postal service is mismanaged because the supervisors cant and dont fire these slackers. we had a guy on limited duty who got hurt wiping his @ss. yes thats right, and went on limited duty, or light duty whatever an IOD is. his father did the same thing, and went out IOD. his kid tried to do it at burger king but they fired his lazy @ss. i guess he’ll be applying to the po so he can wipe his @ss here and claim an IOD. dont give me this whining crap. your doctor will pretty much write whatever it takes to make you come back, because he gets paid for every visit. and the real injuries are few and far between. how does hurting your shoulder mean you can case mail but cant walk a route. its mostly horse shit and the real workers are sick and tired of it.

  10. It will bring a smile to my face, when some of those who claim all limited duty are fakers, get hurt themselves and then walked out the door.

    You got what you asked for….I just retired on the VER, and I’m loving it….no more Postal hassle or BS from management.

    I got paid on two EEO cases….I advocate fighting back legally when management tries their
    retaliation tactics. Most managers are stupid and
    have little knowledge of the contract. Easy pickings!

  11. I know in our facility most workers are the over 50 croud. If you have been giving a fair days work for a fair days pay for over 20 years or more, you have joint pain and loss of motion in your hands, elbows, knees, shoulders, and back. We are supposed to be living in a better world where your efforts are rewarded and problems cared for. Just in case you forget, mail is made from paper, paper is made from wood, and the 500,000 or million pieces or more we move every day are getting heavy for the AARP croud who are still working tour 1 after 20 years or more. Buy a Clue!

  12. we have a acouple of these limited duty leaches here in our station in stlouis county recently when they were introduced to the program we had a miracle case of recovery after nine years they made a route for her cllection only roughly 20 stops and shes got on the overtime list to boot. this persons husband is in a management position went out on total disability 100 % and still has the power from his rocking chair to set his wife up for a cush job since she to young to retire. there is neputism rampant at the saint louis P.O. accident cover ups and other abuses that would call for managers removal that are covered up by area mangers because they are yes men(woman). rem,ember Hymn 43.

  13. Archer, back in the day I had to walk to work 40 miles in the snow and we LIKED it. I had a broken leg and still worked on it because the boss was an asshole but we LIKED it. We got paid nickels but we LIKED it. Go back to the 1890’s .

  14. I have carpel tunnel, had my 1st surgery myself and came by to work 2 days later. I had my 2nd hand done 4 weeks later with 2 weeks scheduled sick leave for fear or being restricted from certain bid jobs. Others have taken a year or more for rehab and know they are fully able to do their jobs.
    Examples of abuse to the system has caused bad feelings towards all injured employees. I do feel sorry for the ones really hurt from work, but the fakers are very good actors.
    I know this will cause big problems for anyone getting injured on the job in the future but seeing these people off the work floor brings a smile on the face to most everyone at my office.

  16. Archer anders is a fool,he is talking about all the pain he has and dealing with it and thinks that he taking one for the post office because he is working through it,I wonder how many 7 hour surgeries he has had or how many weeks he has spent in the hospital and how many months in a wheel chair? Not every one is like Super Archer.By the way Super Archer how many screws, pins,cages, and cadaver bone do you have in your lower back?

    A limited duty carrier in Ohio

  17. Wow!!!
    It’s sad how some view all IOD’s as fakers. Fact is only 16000 are from craft & 18000 are EAS or support. Out of those a whopping 1% of 1% have been charged with any type of fraud. FYI, to be on IOD rolls one must regularly submitt medical documentation (x-rays, MRI’s, CT scans, etc.)to keep their cases open. Mismgmt through it’s stupidvisors plant seeds of malcontent against those who are injured. It’s hard to believe so many jump on the persecution band wagon with them. Mismgmt will pivot off, blame IOD’s for being short handed,point the fickled finger of fate @ them every time. Anything to draw attention away from the fact they mgmt.is responsible for the sad shape we are in. The strength of any company is how effectively they utalize their people, not abuse or cast blame. Simply put the PO is just GROSSLY MISMANAGED.

  18. I feel for the people that are really hurt but we just had one lady retire that had been on light duty for over 20 years with a sprained ankle. Nice office job with sat and sunday off. New people entered the post office saw her and then it started rolling down hill. If you are a real carrier You are going to have aches and pains. Its funny when I started over 28 years ago there were 0 light duty carriers. You either did the job or they sent you packing. Again management is to little to late.

  20. Thank you LOOK..Unfortunately, The “Archers” in the P.O. think that there “shit” don’t smell. They spend the majority of the work day looking around to see who is what…Instead of minding their business and doing their work, they get more pleasure from snitching and badmouthing others. If these “Archers” had any brain cells they would call the 1800 report FRAUD to the
    USPS. But why should they, it would require giving info that they are too scared to give. It much easier to bad mouth and snitch on others

  22. Archer, it is admirable of you to do things the old fashioned way…but before 12 years you will be so broken down that you will completely fall apart and who will pay your medical bills? Will it be fair to your health insurance for you to dump all of those postal injuries on them? And what will the postal service give you other than a swift kick in the ass with a light duty injury. You need to wake up and smell the shit.

  23. I’ve read the comments about limited duty employees and the way you feel towards them. All I can say is, should one of you get hurt, either on or off the job, I hope you get triple the crap that genuine limited duty employees get and may your recovery last in only your mind!

  24. majority of light and limited duty people needs to be the first to leave because most are faking it. One lady at the t-1 gpo can’t pick up but 3 letters at a time. She needs to be the first out. What good is she to the postal service, this is a business. If you can’t work you need to get on disability and leave now. most are just looking for ways to keep from doing flats and dbcs machine. we are need to suffer together.

  26. I have a blown out knee. 2 years before it happened I complained about the LLV seat being too close to the dash. All they had to do was unbolt the seat, move it back and drill holes and rebolt it. Safety came out and said they were not going to make this accommodation for me. 2 years later after complaining and even my doctor writing a letter to the Post Office they did nothing. Now I have had 2 surgical procedures on my knee and need a knee replacement. I can never run again and I have 2 boys ages 4 and 2. I am on perminate-limited duty from a job related injury. I got a 25% impairment rating and am in pain 24 hours a day. I should be forced to work at Wal-Mart or Target after 32 years of service? I agree some people fake their injuries, but I only wish I were faking. The Post Office refused to help me when I pleaded with them and now I will suffer the rest of my life. I case 2 routes every day and run expresses, answer the phone, do avus, take passport appointments, do the ubbm, and a lot of other computer work for supervisors that can’t even spell computer. Yes, get rid of freeloading fakers, but be careful whom you call down. Someday it may be you.

  27. We have a sick, lame and lazy working (if you can call it that) in 030 for the past 8 years because he is claiming Post Traumatic Stress from when a supervisor yelled at him 8 years ago. Get rid of these freeloaders!

  28. I can’t wait for the day that all of you who want to talk bad about hurt craft employees blow a knee or a back or what not. We’ll see then how !@#$ing awsome you think you are. Why don’t you complain about the real problem? For instance, Why do the stupidvisoers in my office make $18,000 more than the top carrier when all they do is sit on there A@@’s? Why do they not hold them as accountable as they do us craft employee’s? Last time the poom or the district manager showed up he only wanted to see the craft at work, why is’nt he/she looking at his own lazy crew?

  29. The smart local station bosses are the ones who will find ways to disrupt this program. The sickies are the people who help them make their numbers. Late arriving express – get a limited duty guy to get them out. Down routes – get a light duty person to case ’em. Collections – grab someone out of their chair. Broke down vehicle in the street — well, you know the routine. From my vantage point, just another argument against PFP: or How do I boost my bonus.

  32. Back in the days before political correctness, before welfare, before “social justice” took over and ruined this country, people got out of school and got a job. Then they worked. 6 days, 7 days a week. Holidays? Yeah, it was Christmas, that was it. Maybe the 4th of July. None of this Martin Luther, presidents, Columbus crap. You worked. You worked hard. Usually physical back breaking work.

    You didn’t complain, because if the boss caught wind of your whining, your ass would be out on the street and you’d have to go home and explain to the wife and 6 kids why you werent gonna be able to feed them next week. You had a sore back, sore wrists, you cut yourself, sometimes even amputating fingers and such, and did you go ask for a CA17, CA1 or CA2, doctor visits, light duty requests, and sitting in a chair for the next 20 years getting your full pay? Don’t think so. And the people back before “Social Justice” Commies took over, they actually had pride and wouldn’t dare complain about their jobs, at least where the boss could here.

    Now we have a welfare state. It’s cool to be a victim of whatever works for you. It’s expected for you to file a claim over a hangnail. It is sick and it has ruined the work ethics of the last 2 or 3 generations of Americans.

    And when the illegals get amnesty, their employers aren’t going to like seeing the instant change from old world worker to American worker. Its going to be comical to watch.

    I have carpel tunnel, a very bad back, migraines, trick knees, and arthritis. I am a machine MPC and NEVER call in sick. No one knows my problems, no one needs to. I have done 25 years, and have 12 to go. God Willing I’ll make it, the old fashioned way.

  33. There is no such thing as light work at the post office. All the work is repetitive and physical.. You sit on hard chairs or stand on the hard floor and work. Limited or Light duty employees are still employees. Thank God we have a job that will try to help you. Work and life will take its toll on your body. All human bodies that is. But if you can work with a bad back on a dbcs machine go for it. They do make wheelchairs.
    But in all honesty you are only hurting yourself. And when it is time to leave the PO and you will, you are the one who will pay for your back problems. You and your pride. Life goes on outside the PO. And just because you got injured at work does not mean you have to stop smiling, or laughing. Its called loving life regardless of your situation.

  34. MplsP&DC Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 9:49 am
    heard it before and will hear it again same story over and over but I still see all the scammers sitting around drooling and feeling sorry for themself, I bust my ass on the DBCS every day and do so with a bad back but I got something called pride. For $25 an hour with no education one should expect some strain on their body, and nothing makes my day worse than seeing the same so called injured people walk by day after day for years with a smile on their face!
    they should be thrown out on their asses, and I for one would love to be the one to rip the badges off their damn necks

    My reply to your quote. No one busts their ass at a DBCS. I repair them on Tour 1, and the vast majority of time you spend flapping your jaws while the bins fill up, and break the paddles or destroy the belts. A DBCS operator busting their ass, that is the best one I have heard in a while.

  37. oh boy! the people who have what used to be called “christmas miracles” by carriers will be happening again, and everyone who miraculously recovers should be given a bill on the spot for all their years of slacking and then be unceremoniously thrown out on their asses, fired.

  38. heard it before and will hear it again same story over and over but I still see all the scammers sitting around drooling and feeling sorry for themself, I bust my ass on the DBCS every day and do so with a bad back but I got something called pride. For $25 an hour with no education one should expect some strain on their body, and nothing makes my day worse than seeing the same so called injured people walk by day after day for years with a smile on their face!
    they should be thrown out on their asses, and I for one would love to be the one to rip the badges off their damn necks!

  39. heard it before and will hear it again same story over and over but I still see all the scammers sitting around drooling and feeling sorry for themself, I bust my ass on the DBCS every day and do so with a bad back but I got something called pride. For $25 an hour with no education one should expect some strain on their body, and nothing makes my day worse than seeing the same so called injured people walk by day after day for years with a smile on their face!
    they should be thrown out on their asses, and I for one would love to be the one to rip the badges off their damn necks!

  40. heard it before and will hear it again same story over and over but I still see all the scammers sitting around drooling and feeling sorry for themself, I bust my ass on the DBCS every day and do so with a bad back but I got something called pride. For $25 an hour with no education one should expect some strain on their body, and nothing makes my day worse than seeing the same so called injured people walk by day after day for years with a smile on their face!
    they should be thrown out on their asses, and I for one would love to be the one to rip the badges off their damn necks!

  41. heard it before and will hear it again same story over and over but I still see all the scammers sitting around drooling and feeling sorry for themself, I bust my ass on the DBCS every day and do so with a bad back but I got something called pride. For $25 an hour with no education one should expect some strain on their body, and nothing makes my day worse than seeing the same so called injured people walk by day after day for years with a smile on their face!
    they should be thrown out on their asses, and I for one would love to be the one to rip the badges off their damn necks!

  43. i agree, most people on limited/light duty were not even injured at the USPS. . . .AND again, the USPS is the only babysitting program that i know will let you milk and manipulate the system for as long as they have. . . .NOW I WILL say, there are some folk who were injured at work but DAMNNNNN does it take 15 years to recover. . . .it’s amazing how alot of these “hurt” folk walk into the buildings with about 3 bags on their shoulders, 2 grocery bags in their hands weighing about 35 lbs but their limitations are no more than 5 lbs. . .. .

  44. we have someone that broke he leg 15 years ago (not at work) and been on light duty eversince. time to get rid of the unemployable leaches.

  45. “ENOUGH WORK TO KEEP BUSY”? ,,,,WELL, THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT HERE..PEOPLE ARE NOT HIRED TO KEEP BUSY COUNTING RUBBER BANDS AND PAPERCLIPS! EACH PERSON HAS A DUTY ASSIGNMENT, AND WE ARE NOT PAID JUST TO SHOW UP AND DO NOTHING FOR 8 HOURS….”KEEPING BUSY” DOING NON-PRODUCTIVE WORK, IS A HUGE PROBLEM WITH THE OVER 30 THOUSAND IODS WE ARE CARRYING ON OUR BACKS,,,,SO , MAKE IT TO WHERE THESE FRAUDERS ARE SENT TO KEEP BUSY, ELSEWHERE…(WALMART, TARGET, ETC.)

  46. Yea, too bad a lot of really rotten people have trashed the system.
    But it has to be done. Way too many bums milking the PO. I suspect miraculous recoveries.

  47. all the slackers are the ones that aren’t hurt i see more people that are injured do more work then those that aren’t

  48. Who says anyone is abusing the system? A bunch of lowlifes who obviously don’t do enough damn work to know what it’s like to exert yourself.

  49. I wish they would get rid of all the slackers, both craft and management. Some people have been abusing tha system so long they actuallt think that that’s the way it’s supposed to be! Get rid of these bums for good. But I’ll believe it when I see it. Been hearing this klind of stuff for years!

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