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(Message #23575 from "tsunami" at http://www.quicktopic.com/8/H/MUENvGE8Pc7Qx)

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This is what just came out of an area meeting:
Cut staffing in the District Marketing offices by 10 – 15%. The plan has been finalized and submitted to NAPS and we will hear the official announcement in 2-3 weeks. We are supposed to let the clerks know about the upcoming reductions.

Lot more details about cuts to clerks, HQ, Area level positions and carrier routes. It is going to be ugly.
59,000 positions to be eliminated in FY 09

Anybody with less than 5 years in USPS will gone next year.

NPA is up in the air.

All our functions may go to Finance and incorporated into new positions, and we may have to bid on them.
Reductions at HQ – down 15%
Reductions at Area Level – Down 20%
Reductions at District Level – Down 10 – 15%

Postal Service has borrowed to the maximum against debt ceiling already for FY 09 and we are endanger of not making payroll.

Eliminate all T-2 position in plant that BT between 6:30 am and 12:30 pm. Only Maintenance personnel will work those hours.

All stamps will be distributed via Priority Mail to reduce the amount through the Registry. A spot inspection of the Denver Registry section found 3 clerks sleeping. USPS is the majority user of Registered Mail.
7 out of 9 VPs of Area voted yes to keep Marketing

PCES pay if frozen for FY 08. They will get no pay increase. No word about our pay being frozen.

BME added functions.

Mailing Standards Specialist will be responsible for negative balances, inactive accounts, late postage statements. We will also be responsible for BRM and Postage Due accounts. There is no early warning system for BRM or postage due. There will be an early warning for PI accounts. 60 days before they become inactive, we will be warned.

Article 7 will be invoked meaning that clerks can be converted to carriers.

All travel will be curtailed to only critical travel.

All meetings must be done on Meeting Place. Meetings must be shortened.

Areas and Districts will be compressed.

BMC may be totally outsourced.

A rumor is circulating that there is no MERLIN training being conducted in Norman for MPEs.

There will be a reduction of 14,500 carrier routes nationwide.

They are studying the possibility of working the clerks 4 ten-hours days instead of 5 eight-hour days.

Eliminating all Pool Clerks

Reduction of 4,000 EAS positions nationwide

Once again, Marketing has been given a 6-month reprieve.
Eliminate 1st Pass DPS on Saturday night. 10 – 15 of the work is done on Sunday. They are looking at eliminating Sunday work.

In FY 2009 Sox Compliance may become BMEs only job. Although there was some talk about BMEU Proficiency being added to the NPA of Finance.

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