WHAT IN THE WORLD? Post Office has thousands of workers paid for … not working
Post Office has thousands of workers paid for … not working
HOT AIR
Last week, Democrats on Capitol Hill pushed forward with a $4 billion bailout of the US Postal Service, which continues to lose money while business declines. One reason that the Post Office has such a large deficit may be their labor practices. The Federal Times reported earlier this month that the USPS pays out an average of 45,000 hours per week of “standby time,” where literally postal employees sit around and do nothing:
The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty rooms and do nothing.
It’s a practice called “standby time,” and it has existed for years – but postal employees say it was rarely used until this year. Now, postal officials say, the agency is averaging about 45,000 hours of standby time every week – the equivalent of having 1,125 full-time employees sitting idle, at a cost of more than $50 million per year.
Mail volume is down 12.6 percent compared with last year, and many postal supervisors simply don’t have enough work to keep all employees busy. But a thicket of union rules prevents managers from laying off excess employees; a recent agreement with the unions, in fact, temporarily prevents the Postal Service from even reassigning them to other facilities that could use them.
And let’s not forget – ObamaCare will be just like the Post Office!
Continue reading this story … at the link above.
Check out this story from 2008 at MSNBC … Post office posts $1.1 billion loss in 3rd quarter
Here’s an interesting story at The Washington Examiner. They review … Why the Post Office will never make money (and a lesson for health insurance)
And it didn’t go unnoticed when Obama dissed the Post Office … Postal supervisors: Obama swipe “a kick to the chest.” Nice one boss.
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