The Postal Service first entered into a contract with FedEx to provide air transportation in 2001 for $6.3 billion. On Aug. 2, 2006, the USPS announced that it had ‘truncated the original contract and signed a new seven-year agreement that included an “immediate price reduction in all contract categories.” The revised contract allowed the Postal Service to continue outsourcing Terminal Handling Services (THS), which sort and prepare mail for FedEx.”
Air Networks – Federal Express Transportation Agreement
OIG audited Three of Nine USPS Areas (Southwest, Pacific and Western) to determine whether selected transportation operations were effective and economical. the Southwest was the most recent USPS Area audited.
The OIG found that USPS incurred over $50 million in unnecessary costs by the use of “expensive FedEx transportation to move mail that could have been moved on low-priced surface transportation or on less costly passenger airlines. The OIG also concluded that USPS could save at least $267 million over a 10-year period if management used “ground transportation and domestic air carriers, and to sort mail at U.S. Postal Service plants in some cases, than to use FedEx to perform these functions.” Of course these figures could increase if OIG audits the remaining six USPS areas (Eastern,Great Lakes, New York Metro,Northeast, Southeast and Capital Metro) .
Here’s an overview of the costs on the three USPS areas:
Southwest (PDF) – $9 million in unnecessary costs, save $44.3 million over 10-year period =$53.3 (recent audit)
Pacific (PDF) – $17.8 in unnecessary costs, save $45 million over 10-year period = $62.8 million
Western – $23.7 in unnecessary costs, save $117.6 million over 10-year period = $141.3 million
OIG should investigate how many shares of FEDEX stocks are owned by the people, for lack of a better term, responsible for this give away. And if OIG found a conflict of interest……..so what!
I keep my mouth shut, too. Waste some money my way.
Fire them all plus driver 2b
why do they only change postmasters/plant managers over and over for automation and distributions short comings and delaying of the mail? I feel the “mdo’s and sto’s” feel they are untouchable,due to all of thier buttkissers helping to “hide” mail that should have been worked and distpatched on time. Mdo’s/sto’s continue to hold all mvs trucks well past dispatch time and do so day after day.Why do they continue to get away with this and not be held accountable for the practices they continue? Fire them and maybe things will get out on time like they should!!!!
I believe this place needs an enema..
The oig “found millions ” ???
phucd by the bone us program…
thank you …love carv’n marvn
30 years of this shit. its actually good to see that we dont have the only moron supervisors in the po. wish this site were here years ago. its scary that all the dumb people who really didnt want to actually work as a carrier, clerk, mailhandler went into management and got all this power. we all should have known they would screw it up. and they did. and here we are having to take the hit for their stupidity. waste, waste, waste. thats the only good thing they are good at.. amazing..feel bad for people with a lot of years left. 25 months til i hit 55. and gone..wont take the 2% hit and leave now.
wont give back what i have earned. yes earned.
midnites, lsm, 2 schemes both manually, both lsm, split days off for years, worked all holidays. window training, gone thru 6 postage increases. 7th coming up. they are not fun.
quick story.. stamps went from 22 to 25. first day of increase my station had no 3 cent stamps, no 2cent and no 1 cent. oh yea.. and no 25 cent..
and who got yelled at all day? clerks.. supv disappeared..
All of you make very good points. i am in management and I think that you are correct in what you are saying. There are some managers/supervisors that get power hungry when they put that different colored badge on. Your frustration is not only felt on your level as employees, but as a member of management we also get frustrated at those kind of Supervisors that are getting paid to do a job that they are not capable of doing. As far as the postal service contracting out to FEDEX, I wonder who got the better deal…. as if we all don’t know the answer to that one.
I been saying this for years! How much money did the OIG waste doing this?
LALA makes a good point.I recall several times when I offered (much needed) help in a problem the bosses were discussing about MY operation, and when I spoke, they looked at me as if their dog had just farted. I learned quickly to speak only when spoken to, and to make my comments short and not volunteer any information (which will SURELY be held against you). I recall 1 time in particular where I was sorting newspapers, which should never had been brought to my station, since we were not 1st class, but I sorted them neatly , bundled them, and bagged them out where there were sent to the docks, mistakenly identified as incoming mail, shaken out and returned to me, combined with new newspapers. I could tell this was happening since there were unusual groupings of papers which could not arrive together. I told my boss, who ignored me, assuming I was trying to get out of work. This continued for several MONTHS and thusly the pile grew to vast numbers. When some finally arrived at their destination, that station complained the newspapers were 6 months old and wrote us up. Then my boss’s boss came to me to validate his belief that it was MY fault, and I was not working, and when I tried to explain, my boss gave me the high sign that I should be quiet. I feigned ignorance. Then my boss’s boss’s boss arrived and cleared up the problem by making my job unnecessarily more difficult, and seperating 1 destination into 15, creating a situation which screams even more delay. This is a microcosm of the PO in general. The bosses look down on their charges as inferior, and concentrate only on pleasing THEIR bosses, regardless of the intelligence involved. Yes men. I had a disagreement of procedure once with another boss who informed me that his yellow badge made him right, to which I responded, “That badge increases only your paycheck, not your I.Q.”!
I worked at a pmpc/l&dc some years ago. We were instructed to cull any non priority mail. A review of the culled mail showed that most was actually priority mail. Because most workers could not correctly differenchiate priority from other classes of mail, we had no choice but to treat all mail as priority mail.
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And Potter continues to think he is worht $800K+ a year, he needs to joint Mr. Wagner and for all the same reasons
So maybe the OIG should deliver the mail. Or do they just push pencils?
So what high level official lost their job over this one? HAHAHA!!!! AMEN to talking to the workers we could collectively make this a far better USPS
I’d say the people responsible deserve a extra bonus for this boner…get it…boner…bonus?
MANAGEMENT INCHARGE SHOULD BE TERMINATED INSTEAD OF REWARDED FOR THEIR ONGOING CARELESS CONTRACTS. UPPER MANAGEMENT ONLY WANT TO CONTACT OUT ALL PHASES OF TRANSPORTATION TO ANYONE, REGARDLESS OF COSTS, AS THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PROBLEMS WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG. IF MANAGEMENT WOULD WAKE UP AND TALK TO THEIR WORKERS WE WOULD FIND WAYS OF SAVING ON TRANSPORTION COST!! AGAIN WE KNOW NOTHING AS USUAL, JUST DO AS I SAY!!! 20 YEARS AGO A GROUP OF TRUCK DRIVERS SHOWED MANAGEMENT THE SAVING OF INHOUSE TRANSPOSTATION THAT COULD SAVE MONEY, BUT THE OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR WOULDN’T MAKE A PROFIT AND THIS NEVER HAPPENED.. WE AS A COMPANY NEED TO RELAY ON WORKER INPUT TO SAVE THE POSTAL SERVICE AND MANAGEMENT NEED TO LISTEN FOR A CHANGE!!!!!!!
Man, ain’t that postal management great?