USPS offers buyouts to 45K employees
 

The troubled mail carrier, which lost $6.5 billion in the first six months
of fiscal 2012, is eager to cut costs by enticing workers to leave
voluntarily. Earlier this month, the Postal Service offered $20,000 buyouts
to some 21,000 postmasters under a separate plan to trim operating expenses
at 13,000 post offices.

The U.S. Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to virtually all of its
45,000 career mail handlers, a spokesman said Friday.

Confirmation of the agreement with the mail handlers union came a week after
USPS executives said they would proceed with the closing or consolidation of
48 mail processing plants this summer as the first step in a historic
downsizing that will eventually shrink the plant network by half and
eliminate 28,000 jobs.

More he
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/...205250301/1001

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Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

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USPS offers buyouts to 45K employees
 

? "Victor Manta" ?????? ??? ??????
...
The troubled mail carrier, which lost $6.5 billion in the first six months
of fiscal 2012, is eager to cut costs by enticing workers to leave
voluntarily. Earlier this month, the Postal Service offered $20,000
buyouts to some 21,000 postmasters under a separate plan to trim operating
expenses at 13,000 post offices.

The U.S. Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to virtually all of
its 45,000 career mail handlers, a spokesman said Friday.

Confirmation of the agreement with the mail handlers union came a week
after USPS executives said they would proceed with the closing or
consolidation of 48 mail processing plants this summer as the first step
in a historic downsizing that will eventually shrink the plant network by
half and eliminate 28,000 jobs.

More he
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/...205250301/1001

--
Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP


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Posta Romana To Lay Off 6,500 Employees, Almost 20% Of Staff

05.18.2012 By Radu Bostan

Romania's state-owned postal operator, Posta Romana, will sack almost 20% of
its staff to avoid insolvency, with 1,029 employees to leave over the next
three months and a further 5,500 employees in the second stage of the
reorganization program.

http://www.zfenglish.com/social-poli...-staff-9644887
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Nica: Without Restructuring Plan, Posta Romana Will Go Under

05.17.2012 By Radu Bostan

The board of Romanian state-owned postal operator Posta Romana will discuss
Friday a plan to restructure the company and avoid bankruptcy, entailing a
new organization, and the sacking of 100 managers and 1,068 technical and
administrative staff, said Communications Minister Dan Nica.

http://www.zfenglish.com/companies/t...under-9638844/
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Posta Romana to lay off 600 employees

March 2012 - From the Print Edition

The Romanian Post will fire at least 600 employees by the end of March and
will further reduce the number of post offices by over 135 units, as agreed
between the Government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the
last round of negotiations. In discussions late last year, the IMF tasked
the Government with starting collective redundancy procedures for employees
of the company, with the number of workers to be dismissed yet to be
determined at that time. The Romanian Post had losses of EUR 29 million in
2010. It is currently controlled by the Ministry of Communications, which
owns 75 percent of shares, and the Property Fund, with 25 percent.

http://www.thediplomat.ro/articol.php?id=2721

USPS offers buyouts to 45K employees
 

In addition to the reduction in staffing, the USPS is also trimming
the small rural POs. Our PO will only operate 4 hours a day, five days
a week. Thus it will no longer have a postmaster and effectively end a
136 year existence.

A similar PO 15 miles south of us fares the same fate, It too will
'disappear' after 132 years.

The 'nearest' PO for me will be some 16 miles away, but for the other,
it would be some 25 miles and into another state !!!

Once again [the so-called privatization] our gummint shows the lack of
regard for its citizens, while spending trillions aiding non-citizens
here and overseas!

USPS offers buyouts to 45K employees
 

? "Sir F.A. Rien" ?????? ??? ??????
...
In addition to the reduction in staffing, the USPS is also trimming
the small rural POs. Our PO will only operate 4 hours a day, five days
a week. Thus it will no longer have a postmaster and effectively end a
136 year existence.

That's sad...
Getting older I begin to become emotional in what regards traditions:-)

A similar PO 15 miles south of us fares the same fate, It too will
'disappear' after 132 years.

The 'nearest' PO for me will be some 16 miles away, but for the other,
it would be some 25 miles and into another state !!!

Once again [the so-called privatization] our gummint shows the lack of
regard for its citizens, while spending trillions aiding non-citizens
here and overseas!

USPS offers buyouts to 45K employees
 

"Sir F.A. Rien" wrote in message
...
In addition to the reduction in staffing, the USPS is also trimming
the small rural POs. Our PO will only operate 4 hours a day, five days
a week. Thus it will no longer have a postmaster and effectively end a
136 year existence.

Will the customers of this small rural PO queuing at the counter during
those 4 hours a day, five days a week? How many are they?

If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan, 1964

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Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP

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