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

Cutting 64 million work hours would save about $3 billion in labor costs. That equates to about 33,000 jobs. It may be the largest cost-cutting operation ever attempted by the Postal Service. Every employee, every craft is affected. According to the Washington Post, Mr. DeJoy “has told associates he was brought in to stem the…

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Statement by Mark Dimondstein President, APWU on USPS’s Lowering of Service Standards This Week Resulting in the Delay of Mail for All Customers

Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? For Immediate Release 01/05/2015 – Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? Beginning this week, these questions will be asked by millions of Americans who will wonder why their prescription drugs, their church bulletin, their paycheck, and other important correspondence haven’t been delivered. The lowering of service standards…

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