USPS Debunks Rumors of Impending Massive Layoffs

[Desperadoe]

Reports that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will soon lay off up to 40,000 employees are not true, USPS said in a bluntly worded statement released Nov. 12. Gerald J. McKiernan, USPS manager of media relations, issued the statement in response to an erroneous news story that had been circulating recently. McKiernan said the Postal Service had tracked down the story to a report out of Shreveport, La., that quoted a Postal Service spokesperson. However, that spokesperson made a mistake, McKiernan said, and USPS is not laying anyone off. Any departures are attributable to voluntary early retirement packages, which have been accepted by 3,685 employees so far. The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) in September had warned members that anticipated Postal Service operating losses of $2.3 billion for Fiscal Year 2008 could mean layoffs for thousands of postal workers for the first time in USPS history. But the Postal Service has yet to announce any intention of considering such a large layoff effort.

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[Parche]

1. Good

We dont want them to go Postal on us......:hi:

[snappyturtle]

2. Doesn't sound like it's saying never....why were early retirement packages

offered? Not a good time to be announcing even more layoffs especially in the government sector. They'll just up stamps to $.52! The postal service used to be just that, a service, subsidized by the gov't. now it has to make a profit. A couple weeks worth the money spent on the Iraq occupation could set the p.o. clear as it could so many necessities. imho