Post Office been here before, but survived the doom and gloom of postalgeddon

The Postal Service Means Business

"...if you figure for inflation and convert those 1975 numbers to 2011 dollars. The 1974 deficit of $2.3 billion would come to $9.7 billion in today’s dollars — over a billion dollars more than the $8.5 billion the Postal Service lost in fiscal year 2010. Yet somehow the Postal Service survived without closing all those post offices...."    

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Postal Service wants to break labor agreements to layoff employees and...

Postal Service proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan

"...The layoffs would be achieved in part by breaking labor agreements, a proposal that drew swift fire from postal unions. The plan would require congressional approval..."    

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Plot to kill Post Office cloaked by right wing ‘recess rally’ chaos

"...Potter, who was named by a GOP-appointed Postal Board during the Bush administration, has proposed cuts in the workforce as the solution. He says that at least 677 post offices should be closed, most of them in major cities, and that 55,000 workers should be fired. The USPS workforce, the unions note, has already shrunk, through retirements and buyouts, to 603,000 workers, from 773,000 several years ago...."    

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USPS Work Force Reductions

Lower mail volume forces Postal Service to regroup

"...the workforce reduction did not involve layoffs, but was a combination of attrition and retirement. The Postal Service's work force..."    

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Post office feeling effects of slow economy

"..."There will be no layoffs. That would require an act of Congress. That's a far more complex process. The type of reductions we're talking about are natural attrition, people who were going to retire anyway, a voluntary early retirement option...."    

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16000 Postal Employees Unprotected from Possible Layoffs

USPS’ Bleak Financial Picture And the Presidential Election
"...In response to the financial crisis, the Postal Service has announced a hiring freeze. And, in a meeting with union leaders and management association presidents, the Postmaster General pointed out that 16,000 USPS employees lack the six years of continuous service required to achieve protection against layoffs. The PMG’s message was clear: For the first time in our history, postal employees may experience layoffs...."   
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