USPS is offering a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) opportunity to employees represented by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU). In addition, USPS has reached an agreement with the NPMHU to offer a separation incentive to employees the organization represents.
Earlier this month, USPS announced plans to move ahead with a modified plan to consolidate its network of 461 mail processing locations in phases. The first phase of activities will result in up to 140 consolidations through February of 2013.
Details of the VER and incentive plan are available on the Workforce Connection website on LiteBlue. Major provisions include:
All career employees covered by the USPS-NPMHU National Agreement are eligible for the incentive offer, with a few exceptions that are detailed in the Memorandum of Understanding.
The total incentive amount for full-time NPMHU bargaining unit employees is $15,000. Eligible participating NPMHU employees will receive an initial incentive payment of $7,500 on Dec. 21, 2012 (less required deductions and withholdings). The remaining $7,500 will be paid on or about Dec. 20, 2013 (less required deductions and withholdings).
The incentive program is available to eligible employees who notify USPS on or before July 2, 2012 of their intent to participate in the VER, optional retirement, or voluntarily resign and who separate effective Aug. 31, 2012.
Part-time career employees also are eligible for the incentive on a prorated schedule.
Optionally eligible employees may begin the process immediately by using eRetire or by contacting the Human Resources Shared Service Center (HRSSC) at 877-477-3273. VER-eligible employees will receive an offer letter and kit with required documents to initiate the process. Eligible employees selecting resignation also may begin the process immediately by contacting HRSSC. All retirement-eligible employees will receive offer letters and annuity estimates at their mailing address during the week of May 29.Dec. 20, 2013 (less required deductions and withholding.)
If the USPS change the way they remover employees they can keep the 15,000 if they are gone to change theway to remove them and the other take the 15,000 then you will have a mess on your hand. to everyone that do not think the USPS is hurting then you need eye glasses.I was ans employee for 37 years before I retire. IT JUST NOT THE SAME
Why doesn’t a APWU person respond to some of these quesions? We would love to hear from someone who has actual facts. I don’t think the Union can stop the PMG if he wants to offer Clerks an early out. He will do what he wants. So, how about it APWU? Give us the dirt!! Anyone got the guts to tell us whats going on?
I think you are right about the union not wanting us out, because they will lose union members. Maybe we should get out anyway,because it doesn’t seem the union are for their members anyway.
Sadly, enuf, I think you may be right. Remember the APWU is responsible for the horrible contract that we now toil under ( NO raise, NO COLA etc.) while the NPMHU has not yet settled for management’s meager spoils. It’s ALWAYS about the “Union position” not the individual benefit of the member. Fewer members means less and less union $$$ and less union power. Their position seems to be “the hell with the members…save the union!”
Our President of our Union is the one holding us back from and early out, because
he is fighting with the National about management not obeying the contract.
Hey clerks…your APWU says NO to early outs and NO to incentives. Why would they agree to seeing your dues money go? They know the number of baby boomers just itching to go would spell bankruptcy for the APWU if those dues money aren’t replaced and exactly how many new employees or even old ones are willing to pay your dues to support your lifestyle? APWU officials have the slush retirement fund not exactly well known amoung members but not available to them either. You are screwed!
Lord Obama will save us !!!!!!!
Republicans are using the same economic policy to manage the PO that they used on the economy; it is called “Starve-the-beast.” Look it up, Vern. They saddle the government (and the PO) with massive debt as a means to force downsizing. After two extensions of the Bush tax code we are still suffering from his failed economic policies — so, no, it is not loo late to blame “baby Bush.” Your solution is to vote for the same guys who poisoned us in the first place? Multi-millionaires like Darryl Issa who want to take 3-trillion more dollars from the poor and give it to the rich!? The republican party is officially out of ideas.
Hey that dumb bastard call him self seen it all remind me of and ass hole that i work with he probably don’t have enough time in to leave but he want to criticized everybody including vets, i hate stupid ass people like him, poor ass ignorant fucker and that goes for you and your whole damn family.
Fuck you, seen it all. You don’t know shit, you must be a plant. You want to meet and discuss, let me know.
You think I’m stupid? Bring it fuck face.
The real bad part about this offer is not that the USPS offered it..the Mailhandlers union agreed to it.. they came to an agreement as always without letting mailhandlers know a thing. Your union is to blame..talk to them.
All the Post Office would need to say is two words
NO PENALTY!!!
Then open the doors and get out of the way.
But that will never happen.
The other way is to offer incentive or years service. If you are already eligible you would only be entitled to the money. If you need years service you would only be entitled to the years service. You wouldn’t be entitled to both. I am eligible and have my date. I won’t be staying around waiting for an incentive.
Bingo (ronnie reagan) the Chimp says so
With this incentive money I’m going to visit my parents in the Belgian Congo.
If you are a FERS employee you only receive 1 % for every year of service.That means including military time you must work 50 years to receive 1/2 of your base pay before deductions.
I AM NRP AND I WILL NOT TAKE THAT OFFER !!!!!! IS THIS A JOKE!!!
ONLY THE CSRS WILL TAKE THIS OFFER. THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SOME EXTRA CASH TO LEAVE. FERS WITH 30 YRS IN MAYBE GET 16,500 PER YEAR – HEALTH CARE – SPOUSE DEDUCTION = $ 800 OR LESS. LESS YEARS LESS MONEY. WE WILL HAVE A GREAT RETIREMENT!!!
You aint seen nothing yet (seen it all)
USPS I think what your missing here is a incentive theme video/song.
USPS I think what your missing here is a incentive theme video/song.
For every mail handler who takes the bait and leaves, the USPS will hire a new casual or other temp worker. At our GMF in Denver, there is 4 hours of overtime almost every day of the month for those on the OTDL. Does that sound like they are overstaffed?
hahahha gimme gimme gimme hahahhahahahha
Here we go again, wah..wah..wah. Crying about how many dollars you people think you are getting ripped off with an early out. Over and over “I’ll go if…..”. How about you just get the f**** out! You are the senior employees who think you are too good to do much of the “grunt” work! Get out and let the rest of us have a job! If you hate your f***ing job so much, WHY are you staying around? The answer: You’re nothing but a bunch of greedy bastards! YOU should have been saving some of your wages for yourself and not cry like a bunch of babies that you’re not getting enough. You’ve made very high wages for no college education. Then there’s the free loading vets who got extra points on the entrance exam, yet are too stupid to do the job. You cry, too. Be grateful for a damn job and shut the hell up already!
At my plant I say about 25 mh eligible w/o years added. I believe maybe 3 at the most will take the offer. Multiply that by let’s say 700 plants and large stations and your talking MAYBE just over 2000 taking. Drop in the bucket. The potential big numbers are with the C craft (and I don’t mean clerk). Carriers would really inflate the EO if offered. They’re so beat up and abused that you would see a major exodus if they were offered (IMHO)
It was my hope that we would get “Forty Acres and a Mule!”
There is always online billing.
Private industry usually offers beteween a week to a month of salary per year of service. PMG DONOHO has been treating us like slaves for his tenure; bring on a private industry equivalent of severance.
At our plant the pse’s that Goofy brought in are doing not only clerk work but mh work too, aka we don’t need you career employees anymore. Thanks Goofy, nice contract!
The Senate offered a better package…. Duh…. Issa and Ross must more $$$$$$ for their share of nothing.
Fire Donuthole and Goofy NOW!!!!!!!
Dear Congress, You have the power to make any VER incentive “One time tax and penalty free”. You Guys haven’t anything to lose if you do. (November will be here sooner than you think).
Hey at least they are getting something. I’m a line level supervisor who has been offered anything. They have went all around us now for the past three years.
15k?? Are you serious? So you expect us to take a $6,400 payment (after taxes and deductions) payment 6 months after we quit and then another $6,400 payment a year later as a buy out?? Seriously?? That first payment is not even 3 months wages for me?!!! Trust me PMG you are going to have to give us the full $25,000 for this to work!!!!
P.S
THEY GOT THEIR MONEY IN ONE LUMP SUM!
MR POSTMASTER GENERAL
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DOWN SIZE DO THE RIGHT THING.IF YOU ARE ASKING WORKERS TO LEAVE EARLY AND FOR SOME TO TAKE A LOST MAKE
THE MAX OFFER OPM ALLOWS. THE POSTAL SERVICE DID SO IN THE 1990s
AS A MATTER OF FACT MORE LEFT THAN YOU PLANNED. MAKE AND ALL OUT OFFER OPEN TO ALL WITH THE NEEDED TIME 25 YEARS.SET A CAP AND THE FIRST TO APPLY GET IT. IF THAT DOES NOT WORK NOTHING WILL……..
I would leave for 15,000. I would be more than happy to retire with no penalties plus the special supplemental income which is about 800 I guess for an employee. I would only get about 350 cuz I bought back my military time. Let me go with that and I am happy.
Are they kidding? I’m a clerk waiting for an early out. Don’t even bother if that’s what you have for clerks. I’ll work a few more years! That offer is an insult!
LETS PRINT THE SECOND ‘ELVIS ‘!!!!!! stamp we were told that the first one
paid for the 25,ooo.00 buyout in 1992!!!!!!!!!
Believe the offer to Mail Handlers is partially the in your face to the APWU, and seeing how the APWU is ratcheting up for the big convention, they may just let it all slide , what’s more important, you or the big party in LA?
May be offer, but no Moola for you, Guffey feels you will not go, what an asshole!
5250 x 2 after taxes! Give me a break! Think I’ll stick around 5 more years and get the 80%! I’m # 16 on the roster and bet this lame offer won’t get me to # 12. Offer me the full 80% , then I’ll go.
When any other company has a buy out they offer 2 or 3 hundred thousand. That’s what the phone companies do. 7500.00 a year for two years is chicken feed! Add on some years to length of service and shove your 15 G’s. Then you’ll see some movement. Cheap Bastards!
So many pissed off postal employees, just reading the postings here, and in other articles. Never have so many employees have hatred towards their employer, until someone mentions the USPS. The stupids get promoted to harass people instead of doing their jobs, get the mail out. More stupidvisors/managers need to be eliminated, no mail, no need for the over stocked amount of management. Work room floor managers, A.K.A. MDO’s, making $104,000-$107,000 a year to do nothing. Those congress people are too stupid to do anything about anything. They are so old farted and sleeping in chambers. Yet the voting public keeps putting the old farted ones right back into office. If something is not working, such as the current political system, and the people in it, time to vote them out. Idiot voters in California, just keep putting the same crooks in office, so they keep ripping off the tax payers. Knuckle head govenor Jerry brown wants the people to vote for a tax hike! W.T.F. is hisod farted mind thinking? That’s old farted thinking by the illegals that stuffed the ballots listening to the cry baby nanny against Meg, and instead want a career politician like Brown to keep running the golden state into the ground. NO longer the golden state. Just a give away state for illegals. Not just disgruntled employees ofthe USPS, disgruntled citizens of the USA. OMG = Obama Must GO!! Stop the country from becoming a complete ghetto.
OK, HERE WE GO, CLERKS NEXT PLEASE!
Honestly the Mail Handlers? We don’t even have any in our building, at all, nor have we for about 10 years…what a crock of BS….what are they waiting for with us clerks? Morons…..7 more months and I’m leaving one way or the other, they can stick this game playing up their arse until it comes out their freaking heads….
$20,000 to the morons that sit on their ass and do nothing
$15,000 to the ones that do more then the PM’s would ever do and here we are the clerks doing most of the work and not seeing anything yet…..by the time they get to us they will be broke….idiots!
Disgruntled in way you can’t imagine
clerks next please???????
At least mh’s are getting an offer. Cliff Goofy still holding clerks hostage. Curious though pm’s 20000, mh only 15000? Remember senators during Congress saying “we’ve never offered government employees 25000 before,” Donnuthole must be pocketing the difference for his bonus.
Another round of postal lies. Mail handlers?? Got to be kidding. Cheap-o only $15,000, when the admin. people got $20,000. Split into 2 payments that would let the p.o hold onto your money. Not much left after taxes. Let the PMG and Guffey go out the door for $15,000. Blame it on the old farted CONgress people, who are looking out for their own pockets to line. Stop voting in thosesame old farts!!!! Don’t forget to blame it on
O-bummer. Too late to keep blaming things on baby-Bush.
OMG = O-bama-bummer Must Go!! He’s useless as the president.
All the Clerks I know that took the 15k a couple of years ago SOOOO REGRET IT!!
15k ???? just last week they offered PM 20K. WTF do u really think anybody gonna go for that. Be lucky to get 5K per year after taxes, maybe that can pay my cable bill
Guess the PO decided that the Mail Handlers that are still around after being excessed multiple times every six months for the past year or so; are’nt going anywhere. If they are still hanging on even now, I doubt that 15k will shake many loose. I would have left long ago!
What? Are you kidding me? I need 100K. This is outrageous and Congress needs to investigate this. I am being cheated and robbed.