Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs In First Layoff In History

[BankruptPinoy]

"We lost 2 billion dollars and like any other business we have to stay afloat." And to keep from sinking, the United States Postal Service is considering cutting thousands of jobs nationwide. Lavelle Pepper with the post office in Shreveport says they too are feeling the affects of the same disease hitting the country... a struggling economy. "We employ about 685,000 people. If we do layoffs it would include clerks, carriers, mail handlers across all crafts."

Pepper says the postal service is looking to eliminate 40,000 jobs nationwide. There's not an exact number on how many of those could be from the Ark-La-Tex. Pepper says workers who are not part of union with six or less years of service would likely be the first on the chopping block. "We've identified 16 thousand people that are not covered under contract. We'll see what those numbers add up to."

The postal service is also offering early retirement packages to workers over the age of 50 who have more than 20 years on the job. But according to pepper it may not be enough. "The preliminary numbers look like it's not going to be enough and we may have to do something else." But despite what may happen, Pepper says customers will not feel the pain they're going through. "The general public when it takes place won't se any decrease in service.. They largely won't know about it."

By Jonathan McCall

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=9247633

[BankruptPinoy]

Postal Service may be facing layoffs

US Postal officials in Spokane say they are now trying to do more with less by looking for places to cut everything from electricity to possibly even employees.

Every holiday season the US Postal Service hires seasonal workers but with less letters and packages being mailed this year it means they need less staff members. On top of all this there are rumors of something else happening nationwide that has never happened before:

The US Postal Service may be bracing for layoffs.

David Lantz has been working for the postal service for two decades and he says he's never seen the post office tighten it's belt like this

"I have never seen any one talk about layoffs or anything like that," Lantz said.

But rumors are circulating that as many as 16,000 employees nationwide could be facing layoffs. The word is the people who could lose their jobs are those with less than six years of experience.

With twenty plus years on the job David Lantz feels like his is in a good position but he still worries.

"It's very concerning, even for me and not my job specifically but long term health of the organization," Lantz said.

Rumored layoffs aside, the post office is taking steps to cut back. They have eliminated the Expedited Services Department, are not filling empty positions, and are combining routes. For example in downtown Spokane alone the number of routes was cut back by four.

"We have had four routes that they have combined into one route one route will go to four different people and everybody just picks up the slack," Lantz said.

Post office officials say everybody is looking for ways to save money.

"We have to look at every operation, our clerk operations, our carrier operations where ever we can save money that is what we have to do," Lisa Nystuen with US Post Office Customer Relations said.

"The postal service needs to save money like anyone else and we are looking for ways to save money as far as our staffing, our office times, things as small as turning the lights off and not using radios trying to conserve energy," Nystuen added.

With Christmas less than two months away all of that means that postal workers like David Lantz will be facing a busy holiday season.

"I think we are likely to see a lot more of us delivering more packages with less people to do it," Lantz said.

http://www.kxly.com/Global/story.asp?S=9236586

[BankruptPinoy]

The Post office is Constitutional and the government turns its back on them. Central banks are UnConstitutional and yet the government jumped in and bailed them out.

[JRScott]

Good thing I didn't get that postal job last year.....I'm sure they didn't call me cause of the bk

[magyar123]

Watch postal rates - stamps, etc. - to go up dramatically. Possibly like in some European countries, lowest price within one zip code, rising as mail is sent to other zip codes.

[ready2puke]

Bess to buy those "anytime" stamps..Which means they work no matter

how much the stamps go up in the future.

[banca rotta]

The Post office is Constitutional and the government turns its back on them. Central banks are UnConstitutional and yet the government jumped in and bailed them out.

I have heard this before about the Fed being unconstitutional. Exactly how are they unconstitutional?

I do know before the Fed the crisis we are experiencing now pretty much happened every afternoon in the 19th centry and the early 20th centry which is why they were created.

I at least hope the postal employees will be let go through attrition and not "pink slips". Good luck to you all.

[BankruptPinoy]

Please watch G. Edward Griffin explain here:

G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450

John F. Kennedy
vs
The Federal Reserve

http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm

The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/0912986212

Not long after the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act was passed and our country was turned over to a cabal of the rich and privileged, there were congressmen who railed against this massive fraud and swindle. Louis McFadden was one of the champions of exposing what happened by the passage of that act. On May 23, 1933, McFadden launched an indictment against the robbers called banker barons:

"Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over.

"This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it....

"The Federal Reserve Bank destroyed our old and characteristic way of doing business. It discriminated against our 1-name commercial paper, the finest in the world, and it set up the antiquated 2-name paper, which is the present curse of this Country and which wrecked every country which has ever given it scope; it fastened down upon the Country the very tyranny from which the framers of the Constitution sough to save us....

"As Agents of the foreign central banks the Fed try by every means in their power to reduce our favorable balance of trade. They act for their foreign principal and they accept fees from foreigners for acting against the best interests of these United States."

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd396.htm

In 1913, Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act. This Act created the Federal Reserve system giving it the power to regulate the value of American's currency. The power to create money and regulate the value thereof is given to Congress by the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution does not give Congress the power to give away any of its powers, established by the Constitution. Therefore, when Congress signed the Federal Reserve Act, they knowingly gave away their power to the Federal Reserve, which is unConstitutional. The Federal Reserve is not controlled by Congress. The 12 Federal Reserve banks, which make up the Federal Reserve system are all privately owned corporations.

[JRScott]

I have heard this before about the Fed being unconstitutional. Exactly how are they unconstitutional?

I do know before the Fed the crisis we are experiencing now pretty much happened every afternoon in the 19th centry and the early 20th centry which is why they were created.

I at least hope the postal employees will be let go through attrition and not "pink slips". Good luck to you all.

The unconstitutional part would be that Congress transferred their constitutional duty to oversee the monetary system of the United States to a for profit private company that had little to no oversight, which is called the Federal Reserve Bank.

From Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution which details the duties of Congress:

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

The Congress does not coin the money or regulate it anymore, they transferred that authority unconstitutionally to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve prints money from nothing and then loans it to the United States Government who then pays interest on the money printed as 'legal tender' for the use thereof.