Central PA Management Meeting

Ed Burke, District Manager:

The USPS’s survival is contingent on it becoming both innovative and productive, and finding its niche in the business. In FY10, the district will be tasked with making reductions to SPLY, OT and SL. Ed explained that the news released about possible branch and station closings was not available to the district prior to release to the public and he apologized for the lack of communication to the field. He also stressed that these stations and branches were only under consideration for closing and that currently small office closings were not being pursued.

Joyce Martin, Human Resource Manager:

EAS restructuring left only 2 unplaced in the district. New restructuring will be coming and may be ongoing. Eighty people took the VER and most likely another VER will be coming out. The USPS was looking at reducing the workforce by 75,000 and did not come close to the goal. Initially Phase 3 vacancies were only going to be offered to affected employees, and ended up with 4 job categories open to all EAS employees. A last minute change required all lateral and downgrades to bid on vacancies; this could become a permanent change. There was a big response to the vacancy announcements and this will create a chain reaction. Supervisor positions were not posted in the district because affected employees were not interested in these positions. Future CS Supervisor positions will get careful scrutiny with the possible change to 5 day delivery, station and branch closings and excessing employees out of facilities. Currently there is a moratorium (indefinite suspension) of ASP.

Safety has seen a reduction of over 13% in the II rate, and a reduction of 1.06 in the MV rate. There have been 4 rollaway/runaway accidents to date; recently 2 of the runaway accidents occurred within the same week. Postmasters and supervisors must be sure driver observations are being done regularly, including Saturdays.

Barb Kirchner, District Compliment Coordinator:

Job offers to excessed employees are based on the employee’s address. The priority listing must be looked at in APWU PTF vacancies. The 12-month requirement for craft in a facility prior to a transfer is contractual and cannot be overridden. From the 12-18 month exceptions can be made if the employee’s work hours will increase significantly. Offices with serious staffing issues frequently have sick leave issues that exacerbate the situation. Postmasters and supervisors must be on the same page in regards to attendance.

Sherri Leidigh, Marketing Manger:

EAS BMEU certification required daily, weekly or monthly depending on the unit. CPPC has the 150 active BMEUs and they are looking into consolidations; offices loosing their BMEU will be negatively affected by the loss of revenue. Offices receiving afternoon FEDEX trips must scan at least one of the parcels. Stock orders for offices with excess stock will be frozen. Cash counts performance and Mystery Shop product offering in CPPC is lagging behind other districts. Offices 18 and above cannot change window hours without prior Headquarters and Area approval. SOX audits are finding mailing statements are not completed fully.

George Stumpf, Manager of Delivery Operations:

MIARAP process is only 60% complete with only 3 weeks remaining. The problems that are delaying the process include non-DOIS offices not gathering the necessary information, getting NALC reps in the office, Postmasters not making the territory adjustments, and offices trying to use routers instead of moving territory. New 3999s must be completed on adjusted routes ASAP so further adjustments can be made in the fall. The 1^st day the adjustments take affect, regular carriers without 8 hour assignments must be put on stand-by time. By November 17 offices with 10 or more routes in a zone must have the data prep completed for CORE. Currently CPPC has 300 non-DOIS routes (out the Area’s 500) and the district is requesting area’s help in acquiring EBRs for the non-DOIS city delivery offices. Postmasters must be proactive in hiring TRCs and driving out premium hours in rural hours. Hour transfers and volumes must be entered correctly by Saturday afternoon. Relay and parcel post runs must be correctly recording in LDC23. Vehicles made available due to the MIARAP process will go to other districts that are utilizing leased vehicles. Managers must look at distribution time to reduce hours. Twenty-five new flex fuel delivery vans will replace old ones. There has been a reduction of 22 cars in the district and GSA provided the new cars in the district without cost.

Submitted by Jo Oberly

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Updated: 08/13/2009 09:11:00 PM