by Dan Sullivan

July 6 - The Postal Service’s Ergonomic Risk Reduction Program (ERRP)is premised on a simple lie. As it says on page 2 of the slickly produced booklet promoting ERRP, “The Postal Service has a long history of attention to ergonomics.”

Forget about the letter sorting machines that destroyed a generation of postal clerks’ wrists and hands.

Pay no attention to the current automated letter and flat sorting machines that are destroying another generation of workers shoulders and backs.

“The Postal Service has a long history of attention to ergonomics.”

Which is like saying George Bush has a long history of attention to the U.S. Constitution and civil liberties.

Unfortunately for Barbara Brzozowski, this long history of attention to ergonomics hasn’t made the Postal Service a very safe or secure place to work.

Last month the Buffalo, New York postal clerk was thrown out of work under the Postal Service’s Reassessment Program, a scheme to dump injured workers on the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) rolls.

Her only crime appears to be getting hurt while working on one of the ergonomically unsafe flat sorting machines at the General Mail Facility in Buffalo that the USPS pays so much attention to. (more…)