From PostalReporter.com reader:
A USPS letter soliciting a retired city carrier to be a Holiday City Carrier Assistant. At $16.07/hr their pay is slightly more than a regular CCA, which is $15.63/hr. Holiday CCAs are limited to working 28 days from December 5th to January 1st.
Holiday city 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 USPS letter sent out to retired letter carriers:
Dear Postal Annuitant:
We want to make you aware of a special employment opportunity with the United States Postal Service (Postal Service) during the upcoming 2015 holiday season.
The Postal Service will be staffing post offices nationwide with temporary City Carrier Assistants (CCAs) during the upcoming 2015 holiday season in an effort to help us meet the delivery needs for our anticipated increased package and mail delivery business. Your knowledge, community connection, and ability to provide great service make you an excellent candidate for reemployment with the Postal Service as a CCA. We are looking to have annuitants like you on the Postal Service rolls by December 5.
Generally, the law requires that the salary of a reemployed annuitant be reduced, or offset, by the amount of the annuity to prevent dual compensation. However, under certain conditions, retired postal employees are eligible for a waiver to the offset when reemployed into a non-career CCA position.
Special conditions apply for these noncompetitive appointments, including:
• Pay rate is established at $16.07 per hour.
• Appointment duration is limited to a period ending around January 1, 2016.
If you are interested in reemployment with the Postal Service as a Holiday CCA without reduction or offset to the amount of salary that you receive as a retired annuitant, please call or write the District Human Resources Manager in the District where you are willing to work. Specify the offices you would be interested in serving as a CCA and how best to contact you if and when a vacancy arises for which you can be considered. You can use this letter if desired, by completing the below requested fields and returning the completed letter to the appropriate District Human Resources Manager.
During the last holiday season the Postal Service proved that it was a package-delivery business that could meet customer-service delivery demands in a timely and efficient manner. We would truly appreciate your help to continue that holiday tradition during the upcoming season.
Whether or not you choose to apply for reemployment as a Holiday CCA, we thank you for your years of service to our customers in the past and wish you and your family a safe and enjoyable 2015 holiday season.
Sincerely,
Joseph R. Bruce
475 L’Enfant Plaza SW
Washington, DC 20260-4201
www.USPS.COM
SCREW YOU GUYS…I’M STAYIN HOME.
Obviously they are doing this because they want seasoned letter carriers that know the system and the neighborhoods…just admit the c.c.a program is not working
lmfao! are you people nuts? i couldnt wait to retire. i hated working christmas season. come back for a piddly $16.07 hr? lmfao! blow me!
You, sirs, have cheapened the product! I’ll keep my $17.62/hour “retirement” job.
better idea……..for 6 weeks make the 110,000 postal mismanagers throw on a mail bag, drive a truck, or work an automation machine in the plant………they do it at UPS so the managers don’t get a “my siht don’t stink” mindset, and they are making billions instead of losing over $85 billion since 2009 like the uneducated postal mismanagers. once usps turns into a parcel business as mail fads away……..the govt will give it away as they will soon be over 20 Trillion in debt. not if, just when?
lmfao!!! i couldnt have said it better myself.
Nothing like coming back to work, for less money, at an office you never worked at before, to do a route you don’t know, in Winter, with a ton of packages…………….Where do I sign up????
I’m a recently retired clerk, and I got the same letter. The only difference was that the pay would be 15.43 an hour and the duration of employment six weeks. I worked the parcels for years, myself and a couple of other guys (because nobody liked working parcels), and I saw it evolve to the size that it now is because of internet sales. This year will be crazy. The little extra money would be nice but if you come from an office as chaotic as mine was, it’s probably not worth the aggravation.But the letter shows me that upper management is shaking in their boots as to how they are going to handle the enormous package volume that is coming.
We have one retiree coming back on the 5th of Dec..
Ultimately it is in fact the customer who gets the short end of the stick. We get harassed and bullied, and have to put up with a ton of managerial stupidity and corruption, and let’s be fair: there are lots of craft people who are Grade A assholes and idiots, too. But, as long as we remain employed, that’s really what we’re after anyway.
I have a good honest work ethic, and admittedly everybody says they do. But we all know every office has carriers who run too damn fast and royally screw up every route they’re on, and the customers get pissed off. We have the mainstream for lack of a better term, those who do the best they can but still try to get the right mail to the right box and at least attempt to be dependable and reliable. Age and physical conditions can determine whether a route is longer than another, but that’s fair because before a carrier can get one of those coveted routes, they have had to go through the paces with the worst routes and ruin their health first.
I still have a 1000 stop route but it’s mounted. My earlier routes included a foot route of 18 miles a day and 14 miles a day. My back is shot with a couple bulged disks, I’ve had shoulder surgery and two hernia operations. All to get those damn circulars out.
Then there’s the jerks who milk their routes, do half the work others do in overtime, call in sick all the time and would screw their own mothers to get out of doing their duty. Not to mention management ass kissers, snitches and a few who get their rocks off by just being mean and making people angry and upset.
Management can take as much blame as anybody because they allow terrible service to continue. They knew full well, as did city carriers what CCA’s would do when they came on board, and true to our predictions, the street work is horrible. Management does not and will not train CCA’s how to read pink cards. In fact they tell any CCA caught looking at one to put it up because they don’t have time. They don’t train them how to handle undeliverable mail. Nor do CCA’s get any instruction on how to forward mail. So they leave it all on the street, pack vacant boxes full of forwardable mail, sometime misdeliver whole streets, and management ignores the complaints of the customers and the concerns from the regulars who have to clean up the mess and listen to the angry customers who think their normal mailman or woman did it.
I personally will not accept blame for mistakes I don’t make. If a sub was on the route and screwed it up, I tell the customer I wasn’t on the route that day. It’s bad enough to clean up after them but damned if I’ll take the heat.
All this could have been avoided with competent managers who really cared about service but instead they’re all about performance bonuses on the backs of those they supervise, contributing nothing to the operations of the office besides making people angry and upset.
My wife commented that I’d miss work when I retire in a little over a year. Wrong. What I will miss is a handful of carriers with whom we’ve become close to over time and a few others. I can’t see myself pining away to be out in a snow/ice/sleet storm with a set of circulars, beating boxes open that are frozen shut. Or coming close to heat stroke in LLV’s that get up to 125 degrees with no real ventilation. Or get harassed for coming in faster than DOIS projected. Only in the USPS can a person get reamed for doing better than expected.
Why would any one that is lucky enough to survive the Postal Correctional Service want to come back for more abuse? After years of crap, I would never go back! The employee is watched over like an inmate, while management is allowed to do anything they desire. Management doesn’t mind paying 100million in arbitration awards as the Postal Service did in 2012. When management screws up, the Postal Service doesn’t pay , the Postal consumer does! And the management person involved is promoted.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! I retire in a little over a year, and I can’t wait to come back during Hell month (December) in cold bitter weather to go out and be a pack mule for nearly half my retiring salary!!!! I miss the abuse and harassment so much even when I’m on leave, I’m sure I’ll have to go to some kind of psychiatric hospital to get the craving for even more of the same. Yet there are those who probably will. I guess that’s their right, but if I want to continue working anywhere, I simply won’t retire. Yes, something could come up that’s actually near to my heart, like for example helping out in a no kill animal shelter seeking homes for abandoned and orphaned cats and dogs into kind and loving homes. That would be noble. However, it would be something like that, and right now I have no intention of being on anybody’s payroll after retirement.
It damn sure won’t be for the most corrupt and incompetent management in American business or services today.
No way i go back and work for those Manger and Stipuvisor i work for. Don’t get me wrong the USPS could be a very good job, but when you have manger and stipuvisor who was a carriers played hurt now they will do what ever it take not go back to the street. The USPS is the only job in America were you give your all to do your job and they harrass you to do more. All the time you getting harrass mangerment friends the union steward and a certain fee carriers riding the clock. If the Postmaster won’t to find out were the time being use look at the union steward record . then find out who there friends are encluding supervisor. because somebody in manger have to do those time cards and check off before they go to HR pay offices.
I called the City of Industry to inquire about the offer and they told me that they would not be part of the program this year