The USPS Board of Governors aka ‘USPS Temporary Emergency Committee’ is moving right along with handling the Postal Service’s business.
Last week the USPS Temporary Emergency Committee (via Federal Register) announced that it had adopted a resolution. effective November 14, 2014. The resolution grants remaining 3 appointed board members (James Bilbray, Ellen Williams and Louis J. Giuliano) the same authority as board with 9 appointed members. This action was taken due to Senate’s failure to confirm five (5) nominees to the USPS Board of Governors before heading home for the holidays. The Senate’s inaction left the board without enough members for a required quorum.
Next month the ‘USPS Temporary Emergency Committee’ will hold a teleconference. Here is the agenda:
DATES AND TIMES: Wednesday, January 7, 2015, at 2 p.m.
PLACE: Washington, D.C., via Teleconference.
STATUS: Closed.’
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
1. Strategic Issues.
2. Financial Matters.
3. Pricing.
4. Personnel Matters and Compensation Issues.
5. Governors’ Executive Session – Discussion of prior agenda items and Board Governance.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Julie S. Moore, Secretary of the Board
U.S. Postal Service
475 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20260-1000.
Telephone (202) 268-4800.
Politicians with business savvy must deal with mismanagement from headquarters, districts, to local offices that operate on havoc concepts of mismanagement. The trend in promotion to line supervision is to select people with no set bid position to use to their lack of job knowledge to intimidate the weak and fearful to do what they demand or they will suffer workplace intimidation from discipline to removal.
These ad hoc mis managers are rewarded by in office promotion or to another office that has same style of Gustavo management.
The criteria in selecting supervisors must be revived to create productive efforts other than using mean and ugly to create a fearful work environment.
Unions must exist to provide a means to deal with dumber and dumber to protect working employee contractual rights as well as human dignity.
What, no plant closures? Of course the “financing” umbrella is a big one and covers everything, but I guess it would be asking too much to ask for specifics.
2014 was an interesting year, and next year could be even more interesting with a new PMG. Maybe we’ll see some of the following:
1) Plans to replace worn out LLVs will be studied first for three years while the Service in the meantime decides to paint the old trucks green to make us look more ecologically responsible.
2) Patrick Donahoe will be indicted for negligence concerning the cyber attack but will not see any legal action past the grand jury stage as Darryl Issa and Tom Carper will bribe the grand jurors.
3) Management will run constant ads promoting great service but close even more than 82 plants, so a letter mailed from Kansas City Mo. to Kansas City Ks. will have to go to Denver overnight to be processed for delivery four days later (priority service only).
4) The abuse of CCA’s and timid carriers will continue, with larger offices resorting to tasers and other corporal punishment for first time DOIS offenders. Second offenses will involve labor camps.
5) Citing the need for more supervision, every regular carrier will have his or her own personal supervisor, who will do daily office counts and street observations if the weather’s nice. Implants will be injected into the arms of carriers tracking their every movement and even monitored when they’re off work just for the sheer hell of it.