Officials with the United States Postal Service announced this week that retired city carriers can temporarily return to their jobs during the peak-mailing season.
According to the USPS, retired employees can sign up for Holiday Term City Carrier Assistant positions beginning Dec. 6. Their positions will be for a four-week period ending Jan. 2.
Retired city carriers will be eligible to earn $15.68 per hour. There will be no reduction or offset in their retirement pay if they return to the Postal Service.
Read more: http://www.wdsu.com/news/local-news/new-orleans/postal-service-calling-on-retired-employees-to-help-during-holiday-season/29077422#ixzz3G1WDzvQG
Holiday carrier assistants are subject to the following:
• The hourly rate will be the same as that for City Carrier Assistants.
• Over the course of a service week, the Employer will make every effort to ensure that available city carrier assistants are utilized at the straight-time rate prior to assigning such work to holiday carrier assistants working in the same work location.
• When an opportunity exists for overtime full-time employees on the appropriate Overtime Desired List will be selected to perform such work prior to assigning holiday carrier assistants to work overtime in the same work location where the employees regularly work.
The Postal Service shall provide the NALC with reports on the number of holiday carrier assistants hired.
Some of the areas USPS is hiring Holiday Carrier Assistants
we don’t need them at xmas when the junk volume disappears, we could use them to case all the political sh## in September and October that the fss can’t handle. Another dropped ball by the morons at Elephant plaza.
I am a letter carrier who worked four weeks last Christmas and now I can’t get any contact info for this year. No one is returning my messages from HR. Who is in control this year. Oh it isn’t the last minute yet. Business as usual for the Postal Management!
Hunter, if you’re going to use my nickname to post, at least get it right.
LMAO !
Typical mgmt. bozo.
You can tell who are the retired suckups are!!!
This is a trick the Transit Authority in New York is using. Rather than giving overtime to regular carriers or promoting CCA’s to full time regular or hiring new carriers, they are using retired workers. It’s strictly a ploy to cut pay, cut hours and save money. I have a lot of respect for retired carriers but I disagree with this plan.
LMFAO!…..Are they serious? LMFAO!!!!!I couldnt wait to get the hell outta there. i was counting the days. go back? LMFAO!!!!!
How many IOD’s will result from this? Great way to supplement the retirement check, things can get awfully slippery out there that time of year if you know what I mean.
I love these ‘you have to be crazy’ posts!! What some of you morons don’t grasp is that after 32 years of putting up with BS because I HAD TO now I’ll go back, pick up $2-3k for the holidays, work HALF AS HARD as I used to and leave after New Years Day!! It will be great fun and exercise. What are they gonna do… write me up? Fire me?? Screw em!!!
Why would ANY retired carrier come back for the toughest 4 weeks of the year for HALF the pay
You’d have to be a complete M O R O N to accept that position
It took me 35 years to get the hell out of there.
I am nowhere near desperate enough to go back there and suffer managements stupid abusive, degrading “management” style.
Sad because it could be fun four weeks
Why would we let productivity go down by hiring these retired slugs?
I am interested in working I am retired
Interested retired letter carrier