USPS workers are "very concerned" by this newly announced change
This could exacerbate the mail delays that customers already know.
Customer frustration with the American postal service (USPS)more delayed deliveries And the increase in costs is only the tip of the iceberg. In recent years, the agency has been strugglingunder the weight the assembly of financial problems that have made snowball as a result of negative for customers, according toForbes. To try to mitigate the crisis, the USPS announcedIts delivery plan for America (DFA) In March 2021, which was a 10 -year initiative which takes place on the return of the organization to an organization "self -sufficient and very efficient". But this plan implies a number of restructuring changes and objectives that not everyone is convinced that this will not have positive results for employees or customers. Now, agency workers admit that they are "very concerned" with a newly announced change. Read the rest to discover what stimulates the USPS.
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The USPS recently blamed delivery problems to endowment problems.
In recent months, officials and residents have explained how they are "frustrated" by the postal service, because some peoplehave spent weeks Without mail delivery. This problem seems to occur nationally, with Newsy reporting on July 18 that several states in the United States were currentlyExperience delivery delays USPS, including Tennessee, Montana, Kentucky, Ohio and Massachusetts.
In response, some USPS workers revealed that they had "difficulties" with staff endowment, and the agency itself also blamed delivery delays and lacking mail on labor shortages 'work. "Due toContinuous personnel problems, there may be days in the future when a customer does not receive mail, but we turn employees and homework so that they will receive mail the next day ", spokesperson for the USPSLecia Hall said toBozeman Daily Chronicle the 14th of July.
From now on, postal employees fear that a new change puts them more jobs.
PostLouis Dejoy I have just identified 10 plants previously closedwhich will reopen To serve as consolidated and sorting mail centers before the documents come out for the final delivery, the government of the government reported on August 4. Change by postal management this week.
According to the media, this has created a concern among many postal employees, as most post offices across the country have worked as their own delivery units.Edmund Carley, President of the United PostMasters and Managers of America, told Government Executive that some supervisors now feared that they are unemployed because the post offices that offer only retail services and do not treat mail n 'generally have no postmaster on site. "I try to talk to them all about the edge, but I have no answers," said Carley, noting that he was "very concerned about the implementation" of these consolidated centers in the future.
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This is part of the agency's 10 -year plan.
Dejoy firstannounced his vision For consolidated centers within the framework of the DFA plan over 10 years in May 2022. Then, in July, the director of government reported that the USPS also provided forBuild 60 new regional treatment centers This will act as mega centers "which can treat, sort and send a delivery letter" in a single space. "The substantial deployment of this initiative will make us the favorite delivery suppliers in the country. We will have the greatest range of delivery and will be the most reliable and affordable carrier," said Dejoy in August.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
In May, the leader of the government indicated that the objective of the general post office was to "considerably reduce the number of processing factories and delivery units in large metropolitan areas". According to the media, some metropolitric areas currently have up to eight processing factories with 80 delivery units - which is the final sorting place where carriers pick up mail and packages for home delivery - that the USPS can be replaced by only 10 sorting and delivery centers.
"We are trying to make great changes," said Dejoy to the government's executive in May. "Our current processing plant and our transport network are not good. We treat mail and packages in a complicated, illogical, redundant and ineffective way."
Dejoy had also announced his intention to reduce personnel numbers.
Dave Partenheimer, a USPS spokesperson, the government's executive told that the new centers would improve the employee's work environment, reduce the time and cost of transport facilities and allow more efficient delivery routes - But he did not specify what would be the direct impact on the employees and their current jobs.
This is not the first time that the agency has recently been worried about its existing workforce. During an American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, D.C., on July 27, Dejoy said that the USPS would beget rid of a large part of its workforce in the coming years as part of its agency's financial loss reduction plans.
"Right now, to break even, I think we may have to withdraw 50,000 people from the organization," said Dejoy. According to the general post office, the 50,000 employees he must pay will come from a natural source: retirement. "Over the next two years, 200,000 people will leave the organization for retirement," he said.
