USPS wants to go high-tech without losing jobs

By Zach Noble – August 26, 2015 Think your mail carrier can evolve? The U.S. Postal Service does. Kelley Sullivan, an IT program manager at the agency, fully expects that tomorrow’s USPS will have new technology but not, she hopes, fewer employees. “The work that they’re doing will change,” she said at an Aug. 25…

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Do workers want ‘flexibility’? Depends on how you define it.

Why unions are skeptical of a human resources plan for the Post Office. By Lydia DePillis – January 6, 2014 On Monday, the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general posted a report with a seemingly innocuous title. “Flexibility at Work,” it read. “Human Resource Strategies to Help the Postal Service.” Inside, the report talks about things…

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