I would like to thank the President for acknowledging the enormous value of the United States Postal Service to the nation’s commerce and communications. The President also recognized the urgent need for reform to ensure the Postal Service’s future viability.
The President has offered helpful recommendations to stabilize the Postal Service’s financial crisis.
We are looking forward to reviewing the plan in more detail and we are continuing to work with the White House and the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction on specific proposals that involve the Postal Service.
Statement from Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe on the President’s Plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction
From one lying clown to another…thank you ; )
I can’t believe that the President would like to put 80 to 120,000 people out of work. What is he thinking? Does he understand that along with postal employees he will adversely effect thousands of other workers in the mailing business? Alot of companies would go under, such as newsweek, time, and some mail order companies. Printing companies and companies that supply them and the list goes on and on. What’s he thinking?
ars of service that supervisors, station managers, 204-Bs and useless Postmasters do but one thing: HARRASS. they harrass carriers, clerks, mailhandlers and piss off many customers. In middle managment, in upper managment way too many rocks in the boat. Those rocks that are in the boat do NOTHING for the bottom line. I have seen managers as fat as a human can get. All that per diem to go and stuff themselves full. How many letters do you have to deliver for those who do next to NOTHING? RIF (reduction in force) eight out of ten. Start at the top with the PMG who should have resigned days if not weeks ago.Thanks for letting me vent. KEEP SIX DAYS A WEEK. WE DELIVER
ars of service that supervisors, station managers, 204-Bs and useless Postmasters do but one thing: HARRASS. they harrass carriers, clerks, mailhandlers and piss off many customers. In middle managment, in upper managment way too many rocks in the boat. Those rocks that are in the boat do NOTHING for the bottom line. I have seen managers as fat as a human can get. All that per diem to go and stuff themselves full. How many letters do you have to deliver for those who do next to NOTHING? RIF (reduction in force) eight out of ten. Start at the top with the PMG who should have resigned days if not weeks ago.Thanks for letting me vent. KEEP SIX DAYS A WEEK. WE DELIVER
ars of service that supervisors, station managers, 204-Bs and useless Postmasters do but one thing: HARRASS
After 35years of being a Letter Carrier, I am at the point where I can say that during my ye
Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution says that, “Congress shall have power…To establish Post Offices and post Roads.” That is all it says, nothing more, nothing less. Ultimately Congress has the power to decide the number of Post Offices that it believes necessary. Hopefully, some agreement can come from the differing points of view that will ultimately be acceptable to all parties. Compromise is good, but the key players all have political agendas. I think gridlock and Postal default is the most likely outcome.
As for the blame game, there is plenty to go around. Bargaining unit employees, and their unions, are just as guilty of unethical, unproductive, and greedy conduct as is management. Many employees need to take a hard look in the mirror and, perhaps, take that mirror to work to share with their co-workers.
give us incentives to retire. please…
years of service, and money to soften the blow. i dont want to lose my house.
2015 United States Government has to pay the United States Postal Service $50-$75 billion dollars.
The real problem comes from having to pre-fund a retirement system 75 years in advance to the tune of 5.5 billion dollars per year for ten years. What company or government agency has to do anything like that? Now lump in the over payments made to CSRS which are scheduled to be repaid in 2015 to the tune of 50 to 75 billion dollars depending on which agency you believe leads you to the real problem. The federal government doesn’t want to pay that back.
All this business of 5 day delivery and being allowed to sell other items to save money and make money is nothing but a smoke screen. You want to cut your labor force then give them a reason to retire then do as your own OIG suggests and go to centralized delivery points which will save you a nice piece of change, “OIG auditors determined the Postal Service could save more than $4.5 billion if it converted existing door-to-door delivery points to curbside delivery. Additionally, if the Postal Service converted all delivery points to centralized delivery, it could save an additional $5.2 billion.” I think that sounds like $9.7 billion which settles the question of five or six day delivery and even pre-funding the retirement so come 2015 the USPS can get that windfall of $50-$75 billion dollars from the CSRS overpayments.
But the biggest single stroke of genius act that could ever be done to help the USPS is to fire every single manager that had anything to do with approving the buying and implamentation of the FSS system, a system the OIG flat out stated should not be implemented. The USPS senior management is riddled with cronies of one political influence or another with one purpose in mind to allow UPS, FEDEX and anyone else to take as big a chunk of the 1.1 Trillion dollar postal business as they can handle while destroying an institution our fore fathers wrote into the Constitution.
too much overhead… way too many reports, etc…. people who dont touch the mail directly need to be cut drastically.
Until they get rid of the HQ, district, and EAS management personnel that have no experience or justification for their jobs, we are going to hemorrhage money. But like any good ol boy network, they will protect their own. Between breaks for mailers and incompetent management, we are doomed to failure.
Obama has never had any loyalty to anyone but himself. Sure he and other liberals will take our money for union bosses to get a photo op for front cover of the magazine propaganda they send to our door every month. After that, you are just like a kleenex, no longer needed, he got your money. You give a hooker some money, she will love you for a short time, give her more and she will love you some more, but eventually you are out of money or another customer comes along. She was never in love with you, but in love with your money. Can’t you union bosses see that. You keep giving all our money to LIBERALS only, like buying lottery tickets, you never will hit the lottery. You still expect the other party to support our cause, but you toss them aside, still you condemn them for not supporting us. It works both ways. You will never win if you don’t buy a lottery ticket.
I remember when the Postmaster used to be Marvin Runyon aka Carvin Marvin! We know what he did with the TVA before coming to the Postal Service!
I say down with all management including retirees too! They are nothing but scum of the “EARTH”! All bottom feeders getting ridicoulous salaries! From the Postmaster down to the rat bastards n bitches that makeup the 204’bs!
give me 6 years and $ 30 k… i’m gone… 100 thousand other 30 years vets, too.
Obama administration officials said their plan supports retirement incentives but not layoffs, which postal unions and many Democratic lawmakers fiercely oppose. Hey we all know 5 day delivery is a death spiral for the post office. Stick a fork in it, we are done.
YES I AGREE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO CUT COSTS AND NOT SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC, AND SINCE WE ARE EXTREMELY TOP HEAVY WITH WAY TOO MUCH MANAGEMENT/EAS PERSONNEL….THEN WHY NOT START THE CUTTING THERE? FOR THE MOST PART THESE DETAILED EMPLOYEES DO NOTHING WORTHWHILE AND ARE COSTING THE POSTAL SERVICE WAY TOO MUCH…IT’S JUST SAD THAT THE PMG DOES NOT SEE THIS PROBLEM AND CORRECT IT!
The crisis in Greece sheds some light just how weak the Clerk union is. The Greek Government”s proposal during it’s worst financial crisis in history is to suggest a temporary 60% cut in pay to it’s civil service workers.The clerk union accepted worse when the new PSE gets an approx. 50% cut in pay severe reduction in benefits and an end to the pension plan.When the carriers and mailandlers finish their negotiations and receive better treatment it will probably be the end of the APWU.No union in the world has ever accepted such a joke as a settlement as the clerk Apwu proudly displayed as an heroic victory.
Carriers and clerks used to make the same pay. Now a letter carrier makes over 2000 a year more.
Clerks used to make more then mailhandlers now a level 5 mailhandler makes a 1000 more then a clerk
I applaud the Mailhandler and Carrier unions and hang my head in shame as a long time member of the clerk union.
to onelotta, couldnt have put it any better if i said it myself! I agree we need business savvy leadership. good luck to all my fellow postal workers, I honestly wish you all the best.
hey joey styles i got a rat face bitch for a postmaster, very uneducated and very ugly trick or treet
forget 6 day delivery, its time to work 5 days so we can enjoy our families and friends on the weekend, thanks obama
WHAT ABOUT THE WASTE ON 204-B’s?????
Here in Morgan theres about 15 “FULL TIME” 204-B’s most are clerks since the MailHandlers union enforces the contract and runs them out. But one is a scab mailhandler and his rat face wife that actually wears a suit and tie to work… this scumbag pretends hes acting so he dont have to work… lets hope they go after this waste!
I feel obama should’nt have gone back on his word about the five day plan when he clearly stated he was all for six day delivery. the post office may save money and the pmg pockets will get fatter, but obama how can turn your back on the workers that voted you into office , the one thing i thought he would fight for is to preserve all the jobs of postal service but now floaters, clerks, and ptf’s are expandible the 5 day delivery is a slow death. sooner or later it would be 4 days then 3 days. pmg donahue i beg you to resign immediately.
i hate to state the obvious, but if you want to survive in business you have to give the customer what they want. the post office leaders have failed miserably in this area and i doubt that is going to change unless they are all replaced…kick’em to the curb…give’em a freakin official postal letter with the eagle seal saying clean out your desk and hit the road. the fact is the postal service has a huge advantage over other businesses. the postal service has a network in place that goes to every address in the united states six days a week! let me say it again-the postal service already has a network in place that goes to every address in the united states six days a week! all the service needs is competent, business
savvy leaders who know a little about marketing and running a business successfully. find a way to capitalize on the freaking system that you already have in place! this is not rocket science. we just don’t have competent leadership in place and i’m afraid no matter what is tried it will fail because our leaders are out of the old bureaucratic monopoly management mentality. there is just no accountability of postal leaders/management and that is the problem in a nutshell. donahoe’s slash and cut path is about to put the post office into a death spiral of falling revenues that
will be the end of the post office.
Some may say close down the Post office, but have yet to sit down and actully think about the ramifications if that happens. If that was to happen unemplyment may be at 9% now but it will jump way past 9% there putting more of a strain on resources and then you will have seeds for a civil unrest. I do not like ending the 6 days but if we have to go to 5 days then so be it. I agree with some of the provisions Obama is proposing but not all of them.
Would like to ask Mr. donahoe how many EAS jobs are going to be affected in his big plan? Why would they make NIFTY jobs at 30 to 36 hrs a week which pays ot if they work over their hours for that day, when they could have made 10-12 hr day jobs to help elevate OT coast. Why do they continue to let EAS employees continue to detail, when they have to pay them per diem, milage motel etc. These are just a couple of things that come to mind when I think of ways that cost could be cut, oh but wait I am just a bargaining employee.
Get rid of Fat Bastard Donawhoo.
Mr. Donahoe is an arrogant fool. Unfortunately he is in a position to affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of postal workers and millions of Americans. At what point do he and the BOG become accountable for a plan that is little more than an organized fire sale? At what point do we recognize that the thousands of stories of incompetent and bullying management have some substance?
Any solution ought to include the dismissal of senior management and a reorganization of the Board of Governors.