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The following are some of the notes taken during a recent Area Manager’s Meeting as were submitted on a member’s-only-forum:

The Postal Service has borrowed to the maximum against the debt ceiling already for FY 09.  We are in danger of not making payroll. PCES (Postal Career Executive Service) pay is frozen for FY 08.  They will get no pay increase. No word about our pay being frozen. There will be a reduction of 4,000 EAS positions nationwide.

Staffing in the District Marketing offices must be cut by 10 – 15%.  The plan has been finalized and submitted to NAPS and there will be an official announcement in 2-3 weeks.   We are supposed to let the clerks know about the upcoming reductions.

7 out of 9 VPs of Area voted yes to keep Marketing.  Marketing has been given a six (6) month reprieve.

Awaiting more details about cuts to clerks, Area level positions, employees at Headquarters, and carrier routes.   It is going to be ugly. 

There will be a reduction of 14,500 carrier routes nationwide. 59,000 positions are to be eliminated in FY 09.
Eliminating all Pool Clerks. Anybody with less than 5 years in the USPS will be gone next year.

The BMC may be totally outsourced. NPA is up in the air. BME added functions.

Article 7 will be invoked, which means that clerks can be converted to carriers.

All our functions may go to Finance and be incorporated into new positions, and we may have to bid on them.

Reductions at Headquarters – Down 15%
Reductions at District Level – Down 10 – 15%
Reductions at Area Level – Down 20%

Eliminate all T-2 positions in the plant that begin tour between 6:30 am and 12:30 pm.  Only Maintenance personnel will work those hours.

They are studying the possibility of working the clerks four (4) ten-hours days instead of five (5) eight-hour days.

Eliminate 1st Pass DPS on Saturday night.  10 – 15 of the work is done on Sunday. They are looking at eliminating Sunday work.

All stamps will be distributed via Priority Mail to reduce the amount through the Registry.   A spot inspection of the Denver Registry section found 3 clerks sleeping.

USPS is the majority user of Registered Mail.
Areas and Districts will be compressed.
We hear there is no MERLIN training being conducted in Norman for MPEs.

Mailing Standards Specialist will be responsible for negative balances, inactive accounts, late postage statements.   Will also be responsible for BRM and Postage Due accounts.  There is no early warning system for BRM or postage due.  There will be an early warning for PI accounts.  Sixty (60) days before they become inactive, we will be warned.

All travel will be curtailed to only critical travel.
All meetings must be shortened and be done on Meeting Place. 

In FY 2009 Sox Compliance may become BMEs only job. Although there was some talk about BMEU Proficiency being added to the NPA of Finance.

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