Audit exposes Billions in Postal Service’s overtime racket as Democrats seek trillion dollar bailout
Extra pay grew by billions, even as mail delivery slowed. Over 4,000 workers earned more weekly in OT pay than in their base pay.
By John Solomon, just the news.com, August 27, 2020 -
The U.S. Postal Service has racked up billions of dollars in excessive overtime from its workers over the last several years, even as its employee numbers have gone up and its mail delivery has declined, according to a new audit likely to raise questions about congressional Democrats' demands for a bailout.
Overtime pay has become so predominant at America's premier mail delivery service that more than 4,000 postal workers last year actually earned more in OT pay than their base pay, a 429% increase in highly compensated overtime earners since 2014, the agency's internal watchdog reported this week.
The situation exists in part because postal employees are allowed to determine their own overtime hours without needing prior management approval, and management does not always keep accurate payroll records, the audit report concluded.--snip--
I was wrong. The USPS only uses Ferraris for express mail delivery.