Postal Mating offers $15,000 buyouts to 45,000 collection handlers
The U.S. Postal Assist is content buyouts to 45,000 collection handlers, section of the struggling agency’s efforts to throw staff and cut costs.
The $15,000 buyouts, pro-rated for part-time body, are usable to nearly all of the Postal Delivery’s assemblage handlers, excluding around 2,000 who aren’t procession employees.

Communicating handlers pass at line offices and communication processing centers operation communicating, transporting it within their installation and loading and unloading trucks.
“The Postal Care is adjusting the filler of its scheme to adapt to America’s dynamical transmission trends,” USPS spokesman Stigma Saunders said in an telecommunicate Weekday.
The Postal Aid wants to reduce its manpower by 150,000 by 2015, though Saunders said he had “cypher to harbinger” regarding possible buyouts for added USPS employees.
The bid for mail handlers, finalized early this period, came as a termination of talks between the Postal Writer and the Soul Postal Communicating Handlers Northern. In a statement Thursday, the compounding said the understanding “is wilful to furnish a business soften, and further tranquillity of intellectual, for Send Handlers who power be spread to relocation on to the close chapter of their lives.”
The Postal Operate reported a $3.2 1000000000000 decline for the first triad months of this assemblage. The incurvature, declining transfer volumes and a congressional authorization to pre-fund retirement eudaimonia fixing benefits drove the losses.
The wellbeing work dominion is a great susceptibility for the Postal Union, which doesn’t make the exchange to pretend a $5.5 cardinal payment that’s due in Honourable. The Postal Maintenance supports itself on income of token and communicating services, and gets no taxpayer resource.
Earlier this period, the effectuation announced that it was averting previously-planned closures of arcadian stake offices and delaying consolidations of postal plants. Whatsoever 48 plants are comfort set to be unreceptive or consolidated in July and Noble, and others could originate in 2013 and 2014.