Amazing! Postal Union Forces USPS to Hire 9000 Additional Employees, as Losses Mount

By Rob Janicki

Apparently the Postal Service isn't losing money fast enough for the American Postal Workers Union.

The U.S. Postal Service must hire 9,000 employees over the next three months to staff regional part-time post offices as part of a settlement it negotiated with the American Postal Workers Union. The new postal employees will be working at offices that are open for four to six hours a day.

The deal, reached Monday, was declared a "major victory" by the union, which had filed a grievance over the Postal Service's efforts to limit operating hours at its small regional post offices and use non-union part-time employees.

The basic deal, reached through an arbitration judge, was that the hours at the regional offices would be limited but the workers must all be APWU members and at least a third must be full-time employees. Continue reading Washington Examiner

It's moves like this by a union, which will seal the fate of the USPS.  Ultimately, actions like this will result in decreased employment for postal workers, as more consolidation and downsizing must occur, if the USPS is to stay in business in any recognizable way.  Frankly, the USPS is basically in the business of junk mail delivery and taxpayers are subsidizing this business junk mail.

In our household we receive and pay all our bills electronically, which is a considerable volume.  We hardly ever open any of the junk mail we receive, which is substantial every week.  We receive almost all our internet purchases delivered through either UPS or FEDEX.  The USPS hardly ever figures into our plans and yet our postal carrier stops by every day to deliver more junk mail.  The USPS needs to come up with a better business model or Congress should stop covering the collective asses of USPS management for their incompetent business practices.