Work Hour Reduction Plan

DeJoy’s 57 Varieties of Cost Cutting: What’s in the new OIG report—and what’s not?

SteveOctober 26, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service did not give Congress a complete picture of the Work Hour Reduction plan. Did it also fail to provide the OIG with some crucial details?

Are USPS transportation policies still causing mail delays?

SteveOctober 21, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service is still putting restrictions on late and extra trips from processing centers, and the number of such trips is way below normal.

Do It Now: A Timeline of the Postal Service’s Work Hour Reduction Plan

SteveOctober 1, 2020Blog, Slideshow, Story

The timeline shows how the plan was shared inside the Postal Service while it was kept secret from everyone else.

The Seven-Percent Solution: The Not-So-Secret Plan to Downsize the Postal Service

SteveSeptember 14, 2020Blog, Slideshow

Has the Postal Service embarked on a plan to reduce labor costs by about 7 percent — about 67 million workhours, or the equivalent of about 33,000 jobs? Sure looks like it.