PR: Issa/Ross Postal Reform Bill Will Include Amendment To Boot Out Retirement-Eligible Postal Workers
From the National Association of Postmasters of the US:
Postal Subcommittee to Vote on HR 2309 On Wednesday, the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, the Postal Service and Labor Policy will take up Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) postal legislation, HR 2309. NAPUS opposes the legislation for a number of reasons, including our strong belief that the bill would have a devastating effect on postal services to rural America. The bill seeks $1 billion in savings through closing post offices. The measure undermines a community’s lawful right to appeal an arbitrary or unsupported post office closure, eliminates the requirement that the Postal Service provide “a maximum degree of service” to rural areas, abolishes the prohibition against closing a post office solely for running a deficit, and creates a commission to close post offices.
Moreover, HR 2309 fails to address the core cause of the Postal Service’s immediate financial challenge by not requiring an accurate calculation of its retirement liability, a computation that two independent actuaries found to be arcane and inequitable, and resulted in $55-$75 billion in USPS overpayments.
Subcommittee Chairman Dennis Ross (R-FL) has circulated an amendment to the legislation that would double the amount that the USPS must save through closing mail processing plants, phases out front-door mail delivery, and reduces the postal workforce starting with retirement-eligible workers. In addition, the Ross amendment would require Alaska to pay the cost of “bypass mail”.
NAPUS anticipated consideration of HR 2309 at its recent National Convention and, last week, urged Postmasters to contact their representatives to oppose HR 2309. Should the subcommittee favorably report the legislation to the full Committee, it is expected the House Oversight and Government Reform committee will consider the measure in early October. It is believed the committee activity, in part, is due to Chairman Issa’s desire to submit HR 2309 to the Deficit Reduction Committee, alongside the President’s postal plan. It is unclear if the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will move a bill to present something to the Deficit Committee.
Call Your Representative TODAY –especially if he/she is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee – to oppose H.R. 2309
Sections 103, 104 and 105 of the bill are especially harmful to rural America
Capitol Switchboard 202-224-312
read full eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin .
how is it that the postal board of governers ,and the office of the Inspector General should be able to misappropriate federal retiree health benefit funds for their operating budgets when those funds are not for that purpose? according to the appropriations act of 2010? enabled by the so called “Postal accountability and enhancement act” they call this accountability? I call it theft!
A pension and retirement!! Go live your life because your gonna die from old age sooner than me!!
The government needs to give us our fucking money back and we wouldn’t be in this problem..get rid of all the higher management positions that these incompetent people get paid so much money for making bad decisions..they’re all a bunch of lazy fucks that get paid to do nothing but stress the workers out..cut there bonuses…we don’t get bonuses and we do all the work.. and get rid of th e civil service employees..come on people…don’t u have a life?? Or do u really wanna die in this place..why push out employees that have already given 10 years in that are still young and can actually move and lift 70lbs!! Why push someone out on the street that’s already at the middle of there life and make them start over when these old fuckers already have
No one is safe from Congress’s decisions here. The govt takes our overpayments and we don’t say a word, let it be. If I overpay something I want my money back. If they don’t have our overpayments at least give us enough back yearly to pay our debts. And stop with the ridiculous $5.5 billion mandate that no other company has to pay. They use the post office as a purse and want to put down all the working class there from custodians, clerks to supervisors and hopefully postmaster general donohoe, he is the only one that needs to be retired.
Just vote all the Criminals in Congress out!
The long-term savings would speak for themselves if we are offered an early out within the next year. I’m under FERS, but I’m 58, old enough for the supplemental Soc. Security, so if I add that to my pension and take out the TSP money in monthly allotments of $500 or so, I’d be out of there in a heartbeat. Congress needs to make sure we get that overfunding back. Boot us out? They want us to settle for a penalty with no supplemental? They want us to live in cardboard boxes??? Issa and Ross should be tied to a tree and bullwhipped until they change their tune!!!
“…there is a dispute as to whether the Postal Service has underfunded CSRS (by $7.3 billion according to OPM) or overfunded CSRS (by $50 to 75 billion according to OIG and the PRC).” – from USPS white paper
Here is the dilemma. The House of Representatives is more likely to believe the OPM scenario, the Senate to believe the PRC scenario. It’s possible that the FERS overpayment of $6-7B might be returned but don’t look for the CSRS money issue to be resolved anytime soon.
What about employees buying back their military and other federal time that has not been paid that would enable those years to count toward retirement. When your service time is calculated for eligibility it counts those years wether you will get credit in your annuity or not. Would we be given an ultimatum to pay today or forget your previous plans of the next few years.
i’m of retirement age… i CANT AFFORD IT… 31 YEARS…
give us some years of servise added, and $1000. per year of service added….
and then, i could retire. (working parft time)
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS REACHED RETIREMENT AGE DOES NOT MEAN THEY CAN AFFORD TO…. YOU JACKWAGONS
WHY “BOOT OUT” RETIREMENT AGE EMPLOYEES? WHY NOT JUST TAKE THEM OUT BACK AND SHOOT THEM? THIS WAY WE CAN SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE TOO. WHAT A FREAKING JOKE CONGRESS DECIDING WHEN PEOPLE HAVE TO RETIRE!!!!!
The stupidvisors don’t want us to close useless post offices ? What are they trying to do ? Save their phony bolgna jobs ? CLOSE THEM . Offer us v.e.r. get ride of us . We don’t do anything , we are useless . Just listen to them talk to us . Then have the stupidvisors do some work . God knows they can’t think on their own .
ALL CONGRESS HAS TO DO IS ALLOW US TO GET ”OUR” MONEY BACK AND THE POSTAL SERVICE WILL BE FINE. WHO EVER HEARD OF FIGHTING TO COLLECT YOUR OWN OVERPAYMENT BACK. THE OPM IS THE BIGGEST JOKE OF ALL TIME. HOW CAN ANYBODY MAKE A 75 BILLION DOLLAR MISTAKE. THEY SHOULD BE BROUGHT BEFORE A MILITARY TRIBUNAL AND TRIED FOR TREASON. GIVE US BACK OUR FUCKING MONEY!!!