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From PEN's Readers and Other Postal Sources Please Note: This section may contain outdated material - please reference date/year of article. Postal Service is a Toxic Work Environment Posted April 14, 2010 by Dr. Steve Musacco is a Ph.D.

In organizational psychology, a M.S. In Counseling, and a B.A.

In psychology. He's been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and completed Coachu's coaching program. He currently teaches online courses with Walden University. He also work for the postal service for 30 years. Musacco said: Prior to my retirement from the USPS, at a former district I worked for, there were three suicides within a two year period that I concluded were contributed to in significant part by how these employees were treated in the workplace. The third employee, a city letter carrier, fatally shot himself in a postal jeep and left a letter stating that he could no longer take the job. The night before he committed suicide he told his wife he did not know if he would be able to handle his job anymore.

How do I know? His wife told me this one day after his suicide. He was one of the best employees in the office. The District Manager and I interviewed his coworkers after his death, and they stated he would urinate in a bottle while on delivery route for fear he would not meet an artificial deadline set by postal management.

During the interviews, one of the postal supervisors told the District Manager and me that the day before the suicide she gave a letter to all the city letter carriers in the station, noting that any future over time used for their routes would be considered unacceptable performance. The suicide at the Gastonia postal facility was the second since December 2005. Many people have asked: Why is there so much stress and workplace tragedies in the U.S. Postal Service? The answer to these questions is because the postal culture embraces and reflects core values that center on achieving bottom-line results with little or no regard for employee participation, respect, dignity, or fairness.

Additionally, there is little or no accountability for the actions of top management in the Postal Service. Many postal facilities consequently have toxic work environments, and they can be a catalyst or trigger for serious acts of workplace violence, including homicide and suicide. The associated rewards system for behavior consistent with the postal culture core values, moreover, enables systemic organizational and individual bullying of employees at all levels of the organization. I define a toxic workplace environment as a workplace where there is a high incidence of stress-related illnesses. These stress-related illnesses are manifested by psychological and physical deterioration.

In other words, these types of environments seriously erode employees’ health and well-being. The primary factors contributing to a toxic workplace environment are high job demands, low job control, and low social support. Low social support generally entails a lack of respect and validation of employees’ dignity by their “superiors”. It also oftentimes includes organizational practices and methods that encourage the bullying of employees to meet corporate goals. Steve Musacco Submitted by: Eric L. Wattree wattree.blogspot.com Ewattree@Gmail.com The Postal Service is soliciting medical releases for those employees that are required to partake in the 2nd and 3rd opinion process.

In doing so, the FMLA Coordinators are requiring employees to release the “specified information” to the USPS Law Department. Specifically, the USPS is requesting access to: Any and all records regarding treatment, including but not limited to, all current and past medical treatment, aliments and/or conditions (sic); Other: Stress, Psychological and/or Medical Disorders, Aliments, Conditions (sic) to include a copy of complete chart, progress notes & interview notes, discharge summaries, operative reports, x-ray & all imagery, laboratory tests, pathology tissue, and all diagnostic studies whether in electronic data or other format. The Local Union has filed a complaint with the Department of Labor, and we have asked Senator Udall to intervene. We are also addressing the issue at the National level. The request seems highly improper.

What legal purpose does the Law Department have with sensitive, private and personal medical information? Is the Law Department going to review x-rays and pathology tissue? The USPS letter goes on to assert that the information sought is the “minimum necessary” to accomplish the intended purpose of the request. There is nothing minimal about the information being sought. It is the Postal Service’s customary and routine practice to request everything. Hopefully we will have this resolved quickly.

Until then, we need to have every mail handler that is pushed to a 2nd and/or 3rd opinion (and required to sign the referenced medical release) to file a complaint with the DOL. The Union can assist you with this. It is nothing more then a simple letter written to: Denver Colorado District Office Martin Barrow, District Director US Department of Labor ESA Wage & Hour Division 1999 Broadway, Suite 2445 Denver, CO Those that are affected and do file complaints should remind the DOL that the USPS will likely terminate their FMLA (for refusing to sign and return the medical release) asserting non-cooperative with the 2nd/3rd opinion process. They should ask for appropriate extensions until their complaint is addressed. Additional information will be posted as this situation develops. Source: - Wants to Know How USPS Will Solve Late Delivery After Abolishing 8 Carrier Routes Press Release - September 12, 2008 NEW BRITAIN, CT – Today, Congressman Chris Murphy released a letter he sent to Frank Marshall, Acting District Manager for the United States Postal Service to get answers for Meriden residents about how the Postal Service is going to resolve the mail delivery delays in the city caused by the recent elimination of eight routes.

“Individuals and businesses rely on the United States Postal Service; they expect to receive their bills, paychecks, and other important packages in a timely manner. The Postal Service’s sudden change in service begs not only explanation, but a solution,” said Murphy. Murphy has received calls into his office about the situation. Many of those affected by the route changes are senior citizens, who are waiting until the late evening for their mail to arrive. Minor adjustments to the routes have not remedied the delays. As a result, Murphy has asked the United States Postal Service detail how the routes are being improved to provide better customer service. “I don’t think it’s too much to ask that the Postal Service deliver for their customers, the residents of Meriden, before they go to bed every night,” said Murphy.

- Source: NAPUS Earlier this week, Sen. Cornyn, the Senate sponsor of the Senate companion to HR 1108, legislation to give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority of the tobacco products, indicated that the Senate is unlikely to take up the measure this year. HR 1108 includes a provision, authored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) that provides FERS retirement credit for unused sick leave. The House passed its version of the bill on July 30 by a 326-102 margin. The September 10 issue of CQ Today reported that when Sen.

Cornyn was asked about whether the Senate would take up H.R. 1108, he answered, “Realistically, I don’t think so. Free Download Scribner Anthology 2nd Edition Programs And Features there. ” According to Senate leadership staff, the crowded end-session legislative calendar renders consideration highly doubtful. - Former Letter Carriers Local President Pleads Guilty to Embezzling $20,000 in Union Funds On July 8, 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, David Denman, former president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 272 (located in Newton, N.J.), pleaded guilty to embezzling union funds in the amount of $20,000. The plea follows a joint investigation by the OLMS New York District Office and the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.

Former APWU Local Officer Charged with Embezzling More Than $18,000 in Union Funds On July 17, 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Tina Curtis, former secretary-treasurer of American Postal Workers Union (APWU) Local 232 (located in Columbus, Ohio), was indicted on one count of embezzling union funds in the amount of $18,283 and one count of filing false financial reports. The indictment follows an investigation by the OLMS Cleveland District Office. - USPS Deputy Postmaster/Chief Operating Officer Pat R. Donahoe sent the following letter dated August 18, 2008 to Vice Presidents, Area Operations SUBJECT: Field Non-Bargaining Job Postings The July financial results were as follows: Volume was 5.4 percent under plan, revenue was 3.5 percent under plan, and expenses were 2.8 percent under plan, resulting in a net loss of $216 million. Year-to-date, volume is 3.5 percent under plan, revenue is 3.5 percent under plan, and expenses are 1.4 percent under plan, resulting in a net year-to-date loss of $1.4 billion. The net income loss and decreasing workload require a thorough review of all administrative positions.

Headquarters is working with Area representatives to determine the appropriate field administrative staffing. As a result, effective immediately, all field non-bargaining position postings are frozen. Any exceptions must be approved by the Area Vice President. - USPS finances aren’t a pretty picture these days. And don’t plan on them getting better any time soon.

That’s what Chief Financial Officer and Executive VP Glen Walker reports in his inaugural quarterly video briefing, Dollars and $ense. In the seven-minute video, Walker describes in broad terms the financial problems facing USPS and what postal employees can do to help. Walker blames the general economy — with slumping housing values and inflation caused by rising fuel prices — for much of the Postal Service’s problems. “The same factors that impact us individually impact the company as well,” Walker says. The magnitude of the economy’s problems on USPS is imposing. Last year, Walker says USPS spent about $1.7 billion on fuel.

This year, USPS will spend $2.3 billion. Similarly, the economic crunch in the housing and financial markets has led to a decline in mail volume. He says the 48.5 billion pieces of mail processed in the third quarter was 2.7 billion less than forecast, and 5.5 billion pieces less than the third quarter last year. “How many credit card solicitations have you gotten in the mail lately?” Walker asks. Declining volume — only the seventh time in the last 50 years that has happened — was with rising fuel prices the major factor in the Postal Service’s third quarter loss of $1.1 billion.

“Losses of this magnitude in only three months are not sustainable,” he says. “They threaten our longer term ability to accomplish our mission of providing universal service at affordable prices.” Walker said USPS must accelerate expense reductions through measures like the hiring freeze at Headquarters, the Voluntary Employee Retirement Authority, network realignment and the sale of excess real estate. He also said that employees must do their share. “Handle the expenses of the company like they were your own,” he advises. “Limit discretionary spending and continue to reduce work hours, including overtime.” Walker also urges employees to continue improving customer service and to make sure USPS gets full payment for its services. “If we get paid fully for what we do, our revenue would improve and the threat to all our futures would be dramatically reduced,” he says.

If you haven’t seen the video yet, to watch. Note: Requires USPS computer to view. - If you live in Irvine, Calif., the car of one area postman is more expensive, more Jetsons and rarer than yours. An Irvine-area U.S. Postal Service branch got a Chevrolet Equinox hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in late July, one of just about 100 of the cars released throughout the United States. General Motors Corp., which makes the car, will also provide a hydrogen-fuelled Equinox to a postal branch on the East Coast later this year.

The Equinox is part of the Postal Service's efforts to 'green' their 220,000-car fleet, since higher gas prices will have added $600 million to its expenses by the end of the year. USPS is also testing other types of alternative-fuels cars, and has had hydrogen-car experiments in the past. 'We're a consumer, and we're a good test bed,' said Walter O'Tormey, USPS engineering vice-president. The project is based in Irvine because the car will gas up at a hydrogen fuelling station at the University of California at Irvine.

GM provides maintenance and fuel. The Irvine post office will use the car, which is already in service, on a regular mail route. It can carry enough hydrogen to fuel it for about a week. The car looks just like a regular Equinox SUV, but has no tailpipe, since the only emission is water vapour, and has a chemical formula printed on the back.

Other carmakers, including Honda and BMW, have also released or have plans for zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell cars in the U.S. - NALC: ‘Contracting Out’ Moratorium Extended To September 30 NALC President William H. Young announced June 13 that he has obtained agreement from the Postal Service to extend the moratorium on delivery subcontracting called for by the Article 32 Committee Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the National Agreement through September 30, 2008, the end of the USPS Fiscal Year.

The moratorium applies to city carrier offices not covered by the National Agreement’s life-of-the-contract ban on CDS routes in offices that employ only city carriers. The NALC and the Postal Service, meanwhile, continue to update the list of city carrier offices covered by the MOU on Subcontracting. That MOU prohibits any outsourcing of delivery in covered offices for the life of the contract. Young said another list of affected CDS routes that will be converted to regular delivery in June will soon be released. The extension of the moratorium on subcontracting in offices where letter carriers work side by side with rural carriers and CDS contractors will permit the Article 32 Committee to complete its work, as outlined in the MOU contained in the 2006-2011 contract.

Young applauded the continued cooperation of Postmaster General John E. Potter and Vice President for Labor Relations Doug Tulino on the issue of the moratorium. - DHL TO EXPAND USPS DELIVERIES German firm has agreement of cooperation with USPS The Postal Service is one step closer to PMG Jack Potter’s vison of being the last mile of delivery for every American. Deutsche Post — which owns DHL — announced today that it has an agreement of cooperation with USPS that will have us delivering 40,000 more packages a day using Priority Mail and Parcel Select Service. The agreement also makes USPS the exclusive delivery provider for DHL to nearly 3,600 of the nation’s ZIP Codes.

“I am pleased that DHL has chosen to expand its relationship with the Postal Service,” said Acting VP Ground Packages Jim Cochrane. “This new volume is a natural extension of the delivery service we already provide to DHL and further recognizes the value of our delivery reach. Last-mile delivery remains a fundamental strength of the Postal Service. “Partnering with us has environmental benefits as well, because it reduces the number of different trucks in the neighborhood serving the same locations,” Cochrane added, “locations we visit every day.” DHL will use Priority Mail — USPS’ premiere two- to three-day shipping service — and Parcel Select, one of the Postal Service’s ground package services. Parcel Select is a reliable, low-cost way for businesses to ship packages to residential customers. Postal Service business partners — including traditional competitors like DHL, FedEx and UPS — pick up packages from large retailers and then transport and deposit these packages at a USPS facility near the customer’s address. From there, letter carriers deliver the packages the last mile to their final destination.

- Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports; Proposed Rule The Department of Labor proposed a new rule today that would revise Form LM-2, Schedules 11 and 12 to include the value of benefits paid to and on behalf of labor organization officers and employees. This will provide a more accurate picture of total compensation received by labor organization officers and employees.

In addition, the proposed changes will require the reporting on Schedules 11 and 12 of travel reimbursements indirectly paid on behalf of labor organization officers and employees. Comments must be received on or before June 26, 2008. You may submit comments, identified by RIN 1215-AB62, by the following methods: Internet – Federal eRulemaking Portal. Electronic comments may be submitted through. To locate the proposed rule, use key words such as 'Labor-Management Standards' or 'Labor Organization Annual Financial Reports' to search for documents accepting comments. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. Please be advised that comments received will be posted without change to, including any personal information provided.

Mail: Mailed comments should be sent to: Kay H. Oshel Director of the Office of Policy, Reports and Disclosure Office of Labor-Management Standards U.S. Department of Labor 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Room N-5609 Washington, DC 20210 Because of security precautions the Department continues to experience delays in U.S. Mail delivery. You should take this into consideration when preparing to meet the deadline for submitting comments.

For links to the Federal Register Notice, please visit: - USPS REPORTS SECOND QUARTER LOSS — ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN CITED Source: USPS Despite cost-cutting measures, the Postal Service ended the second quarter with a net loss of $707 million, driven by a continued decline in mail volume resulting from the current national economic climate. Meanwhile, the on-time delivery of First-Class Mail continued at record levels in the second quarter.

The second quarter results were presented during today’s meeting of the Postal Service Board of Governors. For the first six months of the fiscal year, the Postal Service has essentially broken even, reporting a net loss of $35 million on revenue of $39.3 billion. Mail volume for the quarter ending March 31 totaled 51.3 billion pieces, a 3.3 percent drop from the previous second quarter.

First-Class Mail volume decreased by 3.1 percent and Standard Mail volume was down 3 percent. Year-to-date total mail volume is down by 3.1 percent compared to the same period last year. If the trend continues, this will be only the seventh year total mail volume has decreased in the last 50 years and could be the largest decline since 2002.

Revenue was $18.9 billion in the second quarter, an increase of $584 million, or 3.2 percent, over the same period last year reflecting last year’s price adjustments, but well below expectations. Expenses in the second quarter totaled $19.6 billion, an increase of $52 million, or 0.3 percent, from the previous year. The slight increase was driven by an increase in transportation expenses, particularly fuel costs. “Weakness in the housing and credit markets, both of which are heavy users of mail, are leading the declines in mail volume,” Postmaster General Jack Potter told the Board.

“While mail volume may rebound with the economy, it is clear we need to accelerate our efforts to seek new structural and process changes to remain economically viable and to further improve customer service.” One such change, made possible by the Postal Act of 2006, gives the Postal Service new pricing flexibility to better serve its customers. “Next week, for the first time ever, we’ll begin offering price incentives for Express Mail and Priority Mail, enabling us to better compete for package business,” Potter said. The Postal Service also continues to focus on reducing costs and increasing efficiency. For example, workhours have been reduced by more than 18 million in the first two quarters of the year compared to similar periods in 2007. - NALC Golden Gate Branch 214 call for abusive Supervisor to be removed from supervising carriers AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL INFORMATIONAL PICKET LINE Friday May 2, 2008 4-7 PM 16th and Bryant Golden Gate Branch 214 2310 Mason St., Fourth Floor San Fancisco, CA 94133 415-362-0214 Union call for abusive Supervisor to be removed from supervising carriers Join Brach 214 Carriers in protesting the continuing abusive and discriminatory behavior by Bryant Annex Supervisor Ron Malig and calling for the Postmaster to remove him from supervising carriers. Management allowed this supervisor to continue his obnoxious behavior at PCA.

Carriers at PCA struggled to stop the abuse including petitioning Congress people. He was moved to Bryant Annex where he continues his behavior in violation of The Joint Statement on Violence and Behavior in the Work Place. 'Making the numbers is not an excuse for the abuse of anyone. Those who do not treat others with dignity and respect will not be rewarded or promoted. Those whose unacceptable behavior continues will be removed from their positions.' (From the Joint Statement) AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL.

This action was authorized at the Branch meeting in April. Carriers should be off the clock and preferably be out of uniform. Atrapados En La Escuela De Beatriz Escalante Pdf Files.

If you are in uniform, please wear a non-uniform jacket or coat over your uniform. Note to anybody on total disability or with medical limitations. If you are on total disability/on OWCP you should NOT participate. If you have medical limitations, make sure that you will not be violating your restrictions by participating.

Source: - Millions Squandered On Government Cards U.S. Postal Service workers separately billed more than $14,000 to government credit cards for Internet dating services and a dinner at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Orlando, Fla., for 81 people at a cost of $160 each for steaks and crab. The dinner bill also included more than 200 appetizers and more than $3,000 worth of wine and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold.

In the Internet dating case, a postmaster charged $1,100 over 15 months for two online services, including the Ashley Madison Agency. The expenses went unnoticed for more than a year even though he was under internal investigation for viewing pornography on a government computer. The postmaster was eventually told to repay the Internet charges but faced no disciplinary action. See full report here >Source: and - Resolutions in support of labor action against the war March 2008 The resolution attached below was adopted with no opposition by the N.Y. Metro Area local of the American Postal Workers Union at its 19 March membership meeting. Peace, Bill Bachmann RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF LABOR ACTIONS TO STOP THE WAR WHEREAS New York Metro has long opposed the U.S.