House Subcommittee To Hold Hearing On Postal Network Plan Impact
On Thursday, July 24, 2008, at 2:00p.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia will hold a hearing entitled, “The Three R’s of the Postal Network Plan: Realignment, Right-Sizing, and Responsiveness.”
The hearing will examine the Network Plan’s potential impact on the public, the postal workforce, the mailing industry and the future economic health of the Postal Service.
For further information regarding the hearing, please contact the Subcommittee Clerk, Marcus A. Williams, at ext – 65845.
WITNESS LIST
PANEL I
Mr. Phillip Herr
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, United States Government Accountability Office
Mr. David Williams
Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, United States Postal Service
PANEL II
Mr. Patrick Donahoe
Deputy Postmaster General, United States Postal Service
Mr. John Waller
Director of the Office of Accountability and Compliance, Postal Regulatory Commission
PANEL III
Mr. Michael Winn
Director of Postal Operations, Association of Postal Commerce
Mr. Robert E. McLean
Executive Director, Mailers Council
Mr. Jerry Cerasale
Senior Vice President – Government Affairs, Direct Marketing Association, Inc.
Mr. Anthony Conway
Executive Director, Alliance of Non-Profit Mailers
PANEL IV
Mr. William Burrus
President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
Mr. John Hegarty
President, National Postal Mail Handlers Union
source: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
July 20th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Maybe congress could investigate why the post office has 14,056 vice presidents and counting. In fact they just named a VP of Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 am
Maybe Congress can also investigate why the Post Office continues to promote managers with no degrees to level 21 offices and above. Think how many illiterate, uneducated bullies we have in the PO……….
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:14 am
Saturdays off people. Its that simple. The money that would be saved, millions, not to mention the quality of life for the postal worker. Less sick calls. Most customers could care less about sat deliveries and most buisnesses are closed. Why take something that is so easy to figure out, and make it difficult?
July 29th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Julie: Saturday’s off will save money, but not for the clerks that work at the plants–they will have to dps 3 days worth of mail each and every Sunday night not to mention 4 days worth when there’s a Monday holiday. Friday’s are heavy mailing days–add that to Saturday and Sunday and process all that and have the carriers dragging their butts on Monday’s to deliver it all in 8 hours–it will cost more in carrier overtime–to cut a day to save $ it should be Tuesday or Wednesday to make it a fairer work load for all.
July 31st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The fat cats who make the decisions have Saturdays off Julie. The don’t give a rats rear end whether you ever see your kids baseball games or dance recitals as long as you continue to make deliveries to your customers six days a week.
And how much do your customers pay to have front door delivery to their house or business six days a week? A big FAT ZERO. . .
And heaven forbid that a manager should actually manage the workload, and what gets processed. If the processing plant would stop dumping everything into the tubs helicopter style, and stop mixing first, third, and bulk mail together, the carriers could determine their mail load, and adjust for overtime.
How’s that for an idea? My Lord, we give the mailer a huge, huge discount to put the mail pieces in delivery order, and then the processing plant takes it all apart, throws it up in the air, dumps it in a tub, and then expects the carriers to be proficient. Give me a break. . .Clerk