More Postal Districts Implement Phase Two of NRP
From PostalReporter.com reader:
The Postal Service continues to implement Phase 2 of the National Reassessment Process (NRP) in USPS Districts across the country. There is no set schedule that establishes a date when a particular District will begin Phase 2.
Every USPS District should have already implemented Phase 1 of the NRP, which is the “information-gathering” phase. When a District completes this initial phase, they contact Postal Service Headquarters to seek approval to move forward into Phase 2, which is the “interview and decision-making phase.”
If USPS Headquarters agrees that a District has successfully completed all of the requirements of Phase 1, they will validate the completion of Phase 1 and authorize that District to begin the implementation of Phase 2. The Postal Service will then notify the APWU national office that Phase 2 implementation has been approved for that District.
The Postal Service has informed the APWU that they do not expect more than three Districts in a USPS Area to be in Phase 2 of the NRP at the same time.
USPS Districts that have been approved for the implementation of Phase 2:
USPS District Date of Implementation
Dakotas Mar. 08, 2007
New Hampshire/Vermont Mar. 13, 2007
Westchester Late April, 2007
Salt Lake City Late April, 2007
San Diego Mid-May, 2007
(offices not in NRP pilot)
South Georgia Mid-May, 2007
Mid-America May 24, 2007
Boston Jun. 28, 2007
Caribbean Jul. 09, 2007
Honolulu Jul. 09, 2007
Cincinnati Aug. 01, 2007
Related link: More “Injured on Duty” articles
August 4th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
More big payouts scheduled in San Diego thanks to the ELR F!@$ups they have on staff
August 5th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
We have a couple of injured in our office. One of which sits and calls everyone to them to do this and get that , because his foot swells. I’m sorry, but this is rediculous. If you can’t do the job retire or get something you can do. And yes, if you hurt yourself on the job they should help you to either get better, retire , or get a job that you can do.Sorry if I offend, but things would not be this way if people were up and up. One bad apple spoils it for all.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Goldie: your brain is swollen….get a life and stop picking on the injured. Maybe someday it will be YOU that is injured. Perhaps you will have 20 years in and maybe then you will know how it feels. By the way, learn how to spell; It is ridiculous for you to think that management WANTS to help the injured. The contract spells out the procedure to follow for injured employees and they are obligated to find work for the injured carrier, whether it is in the carrier craft or not, or they can take disability retirement or be voc rehabbed outside the post office. Read the contract before you post your rhetoric. The contract and OWCP is there for the protection of the employee. I hope you are injured someday so you will know how it feels to be insulted and ridiculed by your fellow worker.
August 6th, 2007 at 4:36 am
It’s no wonder fellow employees complain about IOD’s. In our office we have a couple who wear “plunging neckline” tios or tight pants that show off their butts so the supervisor can keel over to their every demand, regardless of the fate of the other IOD’s. Of course these same employees with the cleavages complain how they work harder than anyone else while they sit at their work stations talking on their cellphones, doing nothing. They can’t pick up a single 1-ounce letter and sort it but they can carry their kids around in their arms. Amazing. And NRP won’t even affect them as they’re not even on the interview list thanks to their bodies. So much for NRP. Another waste of time.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Sounds like something’s stinky in your office IOD. Every IOD gets a file under phase one-management or union worker if they have any restrictions. If this isn’t happening in your office, then they are being selective and the union needs to investigate. Still some people get interview right away and offered the earliest jobs others wait for their letters and might not have any jobs offered except voc rehab outside the post office. This could be the case why these people aren’t on the interview list or if they haven’t reached their maximum medical improvement, they won’t get interview either because they aren’t considered at their maximum. People, read the information on reassessment before jumping to conclusions about coworkers. What you percieve or rumors aren’t always correct so get the facts before you speak.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:39 am
I can lift 562 lbs over my head….but still, nobody likes me! Before you go, will you get me an empty half-tray. I’m not supposed to be doing any heavy lifting.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
It all boils down to who is on the PM’s favorite list. If its a scab, then PM’s will worry about losing all the favors the scabs are doing for him outside of their medical limitations. If their good looking, thats only gravy.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
iod me..seriously injured,no more improvement..me retire soon.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
the day is here, iods,,,be prepared to walk the plank! we’ll see how many of them get healed all of a sudden….hmmmm! investigations? you bet!! we have been carrying your lazy slug butts for long enough…now,you’re someone else’s problem….good bye,,good riddance, and good luck..you’ll need it!
August 10th, 2007 at 9:42 am
What is an iod?
August 15th, 2007 at 11:50 am
potter sucks and the lawsuits are coming…..
August 18th, 2007 at 9:09 am
IOD injured on duty
August 29th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Keep up the good work on weeding out these parasites from the postal service.
September 1st, 2007 at 11:36 pm
I’ve just started reading this website after being referred by a co-worker. Being an Occupational Illness employee with 14 years of service, I began to read the blogs about the Reassessment Process.
I’m sure that the “healthy” workers don’t like “carrying the load” of the injured, but perhaps had they been carrying that load to begin with, their co-worker might not have been injured in the first place.
Sorry for going off on that tangent. My point is that this blog was supposed to address the Reassessment Process, but instead it became an onslaught of attacks against IODs…all of whom, according to the bloggers, are faking, goldbricks who need to be fired.
I have bi-lateral Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, had two unsuccessful surgeries, and I would gladly change places with any of the mouthy jerks who think I’m faking. Let them take 15 minutes to type a simple email, or brush your teeth. Or any of the hundreds of things you do without even thinking about it.
I know I’m hurt, I want to know how to prevent the Postal Service from throwing me out into the street. No other company will hire me with my limitations, or pay me a decent salary. I was just looking for answers, not more abuse. That’s management’s job, not fellow employees.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
what bull,the po has programs for hiring hearing impaired ,5-10 point vets, and so on.the po says employees are their most valuable asset,liars.the po is corrupt ,voe is just lip service also.. is the po reps gonna circle of the us and chase down every new prrson who ends up in rehab? idon”t think so….discrimatory as hell
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:50 am
i agree with #5 i put in for dis/retire and they said no. so i would like to know what is the reassessment process doing about that i am iod
October 7th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I’m curious if there are any current ‘class action’ law suits against the PO, for taking away our seniority, when they transfered “us” Letter Carriers, to Sales Associates??
Now after a year of being assigned to “backup window clerk”, I along with others… are currently required to Bid on open positions. NEGATIVE FACTORS: 1.)We have zip, zero, nada… seniority to successfully bid. 2.) Bid positions sometimes have physical requirements outside of our medical restrictions.
It’s all a lose/lose situation inwhich neither the NALC nor the APWU, cannot or choose not to, fight.
Those whom cannot bid successfully,(no time frame limits known yet) I have heard from a station mgr. that the PO will give you ONE year of pay and then send you to voc rehab schooling outside the post office to be trained for outside work.
But with those of us who have approx 6 more years until we can retire ( lacking minimum age and/or minimum 30 work years) …WHO on the outside work force, is seriously going to hire a 53 year old person with any form of work restrictions??
And as to those who think so ill of IOD’s… You are all so full of yourself. Remember this: Intelligent decisions are not based up assumptions.
Two years prior to my injury, I put in request to have PO equipment removed off my route due to safety reason. Well that was a waste.. I ended up getting a tear in my left shoulder…due to the unsafe situation and here I am today after 24 years of service, I now have one year senority as a “clerk”.
The Postal gods behind their big desk and their big paychecks, may as well just dig my grave now. Seriously, with all the years of honest loyal work, I’m getting “F..ked” by the Post Office.. and I didn’t even get kissed!
I have lost all respect for the Post Office.
As for the NALC Branch 70, all I can say is ‘Go Allen Arm’! I know you’d make a Fair & Honest President which 70 is has been lacking these past years.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
its a sorry sight to see so many “fellow” workers trash another employee just because he or she is injured. let management do its own work, dont join in and do it for them. stand together or fall apart.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:32 am
Allow Injured on Duty employees to sue for pain and suffering - as all other individuals can do when injured on private property -and you won’t have as many I.O.D.s hanging around in limited duty positions.
FECA laws were enacted to assist injured employees in a timely manner, in lieu of costly time consumming lawsuits vs.USPS.
The trade off was C.O.P - for pain and suffering.
In my case I broke my neck due to negligence of USPS. 12 operations later I perform more work than 90% of the carriers and clerks in my office -albeit with lifting restrictions.
If I was injured in a fall in some food store and suffered the same injury -and needed 12 operations - how much would I be entitled to for pain and suffering ? I certainly wouldn’t need to work anymore.
National Reassessment Process (NRP) kicks injured employees out of the USPS. Let those employees have a settlement of their claims in the same $ range as Civil lawsuit “pain and Suffering” range.
November 23rd, 2007 at 1:52 am
If you ever get injured you will then realize what injured employees go through. Until then keep the insults coming. It only means more pain for you in the end
December 6th, 2007 at 4:51 am
NRP was referred to as National REDUCTION Process by the safety people in our district. Nowhere is there a re-assessment. The hateful mongers on this site will of course keep spilling their venom until it happens to them-then lets see how they cry………..perhaps they will fall on some customer’s slippery steps this winter or maybe something will fall on them, injuring their foot and prevent them from walking, or a car accident……someday, SOMETHING will happen to them-just wait and see……
December 23rd, 2007 at 5:44 am
We’re hurting and popping pain pills while on a Limited Duty job - more so than the Bid job folks. But they still label us as worthless. THe Bid job folks in my Primary Unit sit and talk all night while the LD people work hard. Plus - Productivity is poor while bid folks case SCF mail. I agree that some IOD people are worthless, but there are some of us in Primary/SCF that really work hard to prove ourselves. The APWU is doing nothing in the Cincinnati Local to help us. Especially the two faced Vice President!!! They just consider us a headache!!!
January 8th, 2008 at 6:29 am
I to am an injured on duty employee. This site is not doing what it calls attention for you to look it up on the postal reporter for. I think that it should be abolished like so many postal jobs are now. If you have helpful information that would be great, otherwise why don’t all you complainers join management.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:59 am
ItsLatinaTime—my advice to you is go back to mexico or whereever your hispanic butt came from. You are taking americans job. As for getting off the injured butts–we are not lazy, we are hurting wherever it may be. It might be someones shoulder for carrying too much mail, or a clerk for lifting sacks or 50 lbs of mail one right after another. Just wait..it will be your turn one day but with the PO screwing all the injured YOU better just keep working and not say a word because with what they are doing, it is going to screw ALL THE INJURED NOW AND FOREVER. You may not be able to lift a pencil when u clock out but u will be working in severe pain. I hope it happens to you!!!!!!!!!!!
January 29th, 2008 at 7:48 am
#17
So far I have lost my seniority 3 times due to an injury as a carrier. As an injured carrier I was forced into the clerk craft and had to began a new seniority date. And every time mgt.OWCP or HQ decides to reassign my permanent positions I began a new seniority date. Totally unfair and wrong but I have not been very succeful as of yet to get anyone to care enough to do something about it. I believe it will take a politicians family member or a good lawyers son or daughter to be effected by such an action before a class action as in the Glover Award takes place. Yet OWCP tells me that is the PO breaking the law but no one will address it. Patiently waiting for my civil court date.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
For IOD carrier to clerk, yes there was a class action suit brought against the Postal Service. It was the Glover/Albright suit which stated that IOD individuals were not allowed to bid or request upward mobility to positions that were within their restrictions, apparently management has enough useless people at the top, no need to hire IOD’s that will make them look bad. As for the “pendeja” latina time, you better check yourself, we know who you are sleeping with, and I dont think your husband will like it when we tell him, keep your mouth and legs shut, cause your making it stink.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
To those manager’s who are reading this site, I know that you are being micromanaged, but it is about time that you did something to justify the bonuses that you received from the backs and skills of clerks and carriers. If not for them you would still be asking for 2hours on the street, because you spent too much time kissing a$$ when you should have been casing. “Those who can’t, manage”.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:28 am
You fakers better get off your lazy a$$e$, and get “healthy” real fast! You are all, nothing more than parasites, like a boil on the a$$ of the postal service. You should be ashamed!
February 21st, 2008 at 1:49 am
HEY KAREN, DREAM ON, IT WON’T HAPPEN TO ME,I AM IN PERFECT SHAPE, BEAUTIFUL, AND INTELLIGENT! I HAVE ALL THE ADVANTAGES!!!. YOU SEEM TO BE QUITE BITTER…I IMAGINE YOU ARE AMONG THOSE WILL BE BE BAGGING MY GROCERIES AT WALMART? TELL YA WHAT, I WILL LET YOU DO MY LAUNDRY, AND CLEAN MY HOME..A GREAT DEAL, AND IT WILL HELP YOU TO SUPPLEMENT YOUR INCOME (YOU WILL NEED THE HELP!)…ANYWAY, I AM DOING MY HAIR NOW, I WOULD THRASH YOU MORE, BUT I HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO….TA!!!
February 21st, 2008 at 1:56 am
1BUC,,,THE LETTERS ARE GOING OUT IN 2 WEEKS IN OUR AREA!!!!!! THEY ARE BEGINNING WITH THE SLUGS SITTING AT HOME, THEN, THEY WILL GET THE SLUGS SITTING AT WORK DOING NOTHING..OH MAN,,THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!! IT WILL FREE UP JOBS, AND LOTS OF MONEY TO PUT US OVER THE TOP!! SO LONG TO ALL SLUGS…..YOU WILL NOT BE MISSED (DON’T BREAK MY EGGS OR SQUASH NY BREAD, KAREN AND KABONG!!)…ONE DOLLAR IF YOU CARRY MY GROCERIES TO MY CAR!!! SEE, I AM TRYING TO HELP THOSE WILL MUCH LESS FORTUNATE THAN I..THEN AGAIN, THAT INCLUDES JUST ABOUT EVERYONE ON PLANET EARTH!! WHAT CAN I SAY..I GOT IT, SO I FLAUNT IT….
March 31st, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Wow its a sad sight to see everyone just putting each other down for being injured and cant run around a machine anymore. God help all of you when it happens to you,and believe me it will eventually.
April 5th, 2008 at 6:55 am
You know, most of you sound like many of the employees who I work with.
You are so envious!!!! You can have two employees, one is sitting doing absolutely nothing. He is sittng there twittling his fingers. The second employee is also sitting there doing absolutely nothing. The first employee becomes upset with the second employee because by twittling his fingers, he feels that the the second employee is doing less than what he is doing.
They both are doing absolutely nothing but one is complaining about the other.
That is what you all sound like. There is a reason that there are injury regulations in place, whether you like it or not.
It is easy to belittle those who you feel are taking advantage, but when it is your turn, then you well sing a different tune, won’t you?
If you had any idea of how the system works, then you would understand just how difficult it is to get approved Workers’ Comp, so when you see someone who has appoved Workers’ Comp, it can be assumed…or should be…that the employee has a legitimate injury.
Some of you still wouldn’t believe an employee was injured even if he walked in the door with his arm dangling by nothing but a tendon. You would still swear that he was faking.
What a bunch of morons!!!!