Why is the USPS not expected to do the same?
As in most school districts, employee wages make up most of the cost of running the business--80%. Already the sustainability of USPS employees is questioned.
Darrel Issa:
Are Postal Workforce Costs Sustainable? Can the United States Postal Service survive as its employees are paid increasingly higher wages while their workload decreases? Currently, 80 cents of every dollar the Postal Service spends goes to workforce costs. As of 2003, the Postal Service paid a 34.2% wage premium[ PR emphasis] to its employees over comparable private sector labor, and wages have only risen since.While the USPS like to claim self sufficiency and has recently run tv ads claiming such, even now a subsidy is again be floated in Congress.
he chairman of the commission that regulates the U.S. Postal Service said Tuesday she supports a taxpayer subsidy for the financially strapped agency to survive.
“Whatever it would be would be small and manageable over time,” Ruth Y. Goldway Told the editorial board of The Washington Post.And to stop the bleeding, Issa proposes the following:
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on Thursday introduced legislation that would allow USPS to drop a delivery day and to adjust its labor costs in an effort to bring the agency back into the black. The Postal Service faces financial insolvency after losing $2.6 billion in the first half of fiscal 2011. Officials expect to be down $8 billion by the end of the year. [SNIP]In addition to delivery flexibility, Issa's legislation would mandate parity between health and life insurance premium percentages paid by postal employees and other federal workers, would ensure that total compensation at USPS is comparable to the private sector, and would require arbitrators to consider the agency's finances during labor negotiations.So what is the USPS, among the rudest employees in the United States, proposing? Cutting back to THREE days a week in the future. Not cutting employees. Cutting the amount they produce.
There's an answer for this. Rather than clinging to an outdated model, the USPS needs to invite competition. They need to anticipate the future and that is NOT to start charging people to send email, an idea floated every now and then.
from 1970 to 1980 it was estimated that postal employee, postal families and retired postal workers and families had taken cuts in pay,health benifits and retirment benifits, saving 200 billion in deficit cuts, in 2000, 2001, under the budget recnillation act, postal federal employeew were forced to pay in 15 percent more to their retirment funds, fers and csrs, just to balance the deficit, no other reason. Then in 2003, congress was informed of the overpayments, and enacted the PAEA, a 3rd retirement fund that no other federal agency and not business has to have but the USPS, this took 5 billion off the top since in 2006 the USPS made a huge profit, and they were legislated away. At the same time under paea 13 top excutives got bonues including pmg potter who got a 72thousand dollar a year raise, and then got a retirment package of 5.5 milliong while the rest of the lower craft workers were being short changed due to overpaments funding of retriemetn funds, and told non replacmeent of retirees. So then the employees for having more money in the retirement funds then any other business , had a 3rd fund made up for employees not born or working yet, and then got told no workers to help do the mails once they retire so you can overwork and die or quit and either way we get to keep your retirmeent that you have overpaid into, then some also got thier checks stolen form them and commited sucide or died. The usps beame a toxic work envirnment and you can read about it at www.postalmag.com/joygoldberguspsstress.pdf
ReplyDeletefrom there go to postal comments to the federal trade commision august 6, 2007, to read of overpyments made to the csrs that are lied about even today, then go to www.billburrasjournal.org-misc, and scroll down the eleavator and read phoney excuses for divertiing usps revenue, then go to Alec/Koch cabal The Privitization of the USPS for Ups and Fedex, and then go to www.savethepostoffice.com to get the real information about the USPS. more carriers died in april this year on the route in chicago , 3 in one week and just one yesterday walked in the usps office and dropped dead while trying to clock out, such is the state of the USPs, more dead letter carriers then letters.