12/11/2019 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg contributed to a series of recommendations to improve the financial footing of the U.S. Postal Service that included slashing the career workforce, reducing benefits and closing processing plants.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor worked on the report while a consultant at McKinsey & Co. With mail volume plummeting, USPS hired McKinsey to generate ideas for cutting costs and growing revenues. The firm delivered its report with an array of proposals in 2010, though a campaign spokesman said Buttigieg’s work specifically focused only on the revenue side.
McKinsey cited as a “key action” the need to replace departing career employees with non-career counterparts. Non-career workers earn less generous pay and benefits than their career counterparts. The report suggested USPS take advantage of “natural attrition” and said its existing efforts were insufficient.
“The USPS has been responsive to declining volume, but recent work hour reductions will become increasingly difficult to replicate,” McKinsey wrote in the report, noting that most of the cuts had come at the expense of non-career employees and overtime.
A spokesman for the Buttigieg campaign said the candidate did not work on the workforce reduction part of the report.
source: Government Executive
I did my own “survey” during a 30 year career at the PO.
Get rid of at least half of the mismanagers and stupidvisors
because they are useless. The CRAFT employees get the job
done on a daily basis. The CRAFT employees do not need
Stupidvisors. The CRAFT employees work better without
the toolbags hanging around drinking coffee and eating donuts.
This would save billions. Close the spa in DC. Stop the donut
and muffin deliveries. More money saved. Stop wasting time and
money on useless “surveys” and “business models”. The mail
comes in the mail goes out. Been this way for 200 years. Pretty
simple. The PO is doomed unless Congress and the American
people demand changes. Trump is lurking. Beware.
Sorry “retired but glad” but upper postal management is too dumb to comprehend your sarcasm. Replacing the ground force with workers who don’t get paid enough to care about responsibility and customer service despite having to put up with a deadline is a recipe for further lose of revenue. That consulting firm is clearly crap if that’s the best they can come up with. Real financial recovery can only happen when USPS start kicking out the overpayed management staff who use their power to get away with anything despite their incompetence.
How much did the contract cost the Postal Service to be told to make the employees part time with out health care or retirement? I bet the MC Kinsey contract included the cost of lunch, travel, hotels, strip clubs, drinks and nice meals. Why not just abolish the 13th Amendment and classify all employees, except management, slaves? Employees don’t need, or deserve, pay, retirement, or health care! Employees just need to work for free. The though of management living the good life is more that enough!