CLEVELAND — The Postal Service is currently accepting applications for 170 holiday seasonal positions at the Cleveland Processing and Distribution Center, 2400 Orange Ave, Cleveland OH 44101. Open positions include Postal Support Employee (PSE) and Casual Mailhandler. TOLEDO — The Postal Service is currently accepting applications for holiday seasonal positions at the Toledo Processing and […]
PORTLAND, OR — The United States Postal Service is now accepting online applications for more than 300 seasonal, non-career holiday term employees to work in Oregon – 278 of them in Portland’s mail processing facilities. Applicants must be at least 18 years old or a high school graduate. Background checks and drug tests will be […]
A perspective from A Postal Support Employee (PSEs) as told to PostalReporter.com Hi I’m a Postal Support Employee at name and postal facility withheld upon request. It seems this position is merely an effective way of underpaying and overworking people unbeknownst to the crooked policies of the USPS. My tour has literally 30 to 40 […]
June 3, 2014 – Several people have inquired about the designation “FERS-RAE” on the Form 50s of employees who were recently converted from Postal Support Employee to career. The new designation reflects that the employees were hired as career employees on or after Jan. 1, 2013, and are covered under the Federal Employees Retirement System […]
The PSE stole $6,423.67 in postal funds and property and issued 41 money orders in the amount of $552.00 from 9/20/13 to 9/30/13/ OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) — A Scooba woman has been indicted on charges she took cash and other property for her own use while working at the U. S. Post Office in Artesia. […]
ATLANTA —A spike in missing mail complaints at a midtown Atlanta U.S. Post Office led investigators to arrest a postal worker on mail obstruction charges. Investigators with the Office of the Inspector General said they observed Ronald Paige stealing packages and rifling through mail. During an interview with investigators, Paige admitted to stealing parcels for […]
PSEs Not in Clerk Complement for Lead Clerks (01/16/14) In a decision [PDF] issued Jan. 10, Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that Clerk Craft PSEs should not be included in the Clerk Craft complement for the purpose of determining whether Lead Clerk positions must be created in a facility. The Postal Service initiated this dispute, arguing […]
USPS OIG Audit report: Use of Postal Support Employees in Customer Service Operation In the 2010-2015 American Postal Workers Union’s National Labor Agreement (National Agreement), the U.S. Postal Service created a new category of non-career employees called postal support employees (PSEs) to increase its workforce flexibility and reduce labor costs. PSEs have no daily or […]
The USPS has notified the APWU that it failed to complete back-pay adjustments for PSE overtime hours, which were expected in Pay Period 17. The adjustments will be made in Pay Period 19, management says. The adjustments are being made because the Department of Labor found that the USPS was paying PSEs for overtime at […]
In response to demands from the APWU, the Postal Service agreed on Aug. 14 to convert 399 Clerk Craft Postal Support Employees (PSEs) to career status. The conversions will be the first in mail processing.