The Postal Service over-stated savings from shifting to lower-paid and less tenured employees and reducing services, and did not account for some side effects such as increased turnover, the GAO has said.
GAO said that it was able to substantiate about $8 billion of the $9.7 billion in savings that USPS has claimed for the 2016-2018 period. It said the agency’s own estimates “are likely overstated because they do not fully account for changes in work hours or tenure of employees. Also, USPS did not account for other costs such as increased turnover rates among lower-paid employees.”
“USPS lacks guidance on what factors to consider in its cost savings estimates, and as a result may make future changes to employee compensation based on incomplete information . . . saving depends on USPS overcoming challenges, such as potential increases in turnover and reduced productivity resulting from decreases in pay and benefits,” it said.
USPS and union officials told GAO that “the unpredictable non-career employee work schedules, as well as low unemployment rates, have created additional challenges for recruiting qualified non-career employees” resulting in increased recruitment costs. Meanwhile, turnover among non-career employees “was higher than expected” resulting in added costs for both recruitment and training of new employees.
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Word is out on the street that working for the postal service is a nightmare gig…. especially CCA’s. There used to be a long waiting list for carrier jobs…now postal management has to resort to job fairs to try to talk suckers into taking a carrier job at slave wages… and they wonder why there is rampant theft and mail being dumped on the side of the road…. SMH
Once again; lie, cheat, and steal to make the numbers. You can’t believe anything these fools say.Marvin Runyon was right, 130,000 management jobs need to go.
I don’t know who’s lack of understanding is behind the thinking?. The loss of many
workers thru abuse was a big loss to 1st class mail. The older people in general were
without a question the biggest customers. The good older workers understand that
you have to support your line of work to make it a place with a future. The City
Carriers,and the CCA.s have a job that is really hard. The rest of USPS is not as bad.
Even people that work at GM know that they can’t all drive a Honda,and continue to
have a job.
Take their damn phone away!
If management spent less time spying on the workers and more time managing to running of the work load things would be better. management is so busy trying to disciplining employees that they must lie to cover up their lack of job skills! When the Postal Service is gone they can use their ability to lie and get elected to a public office.
USPS lacks “guidance”. Wow!!!. What an understatement.
Starts at the top and avalanches down. There is no guidance
at the PO. Bunch of tools running the PO into privatization.
Time is running out. Trump is lurking at the door. Run while
you can.