Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Audit exposes Postal Service’s overtime racket as Democrats seek bailout
Just the News ^ | August 27, 2020 - 11:39pm | By John Solomon

Posted on 08/28/2020 8:44:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk

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.

"A mail handler in the Northeast Area earned $141,153 in total overtime pay by working 3,329 regular overtime hours, which resulted in $205,018 in total pay" the report noted. "This was equivalent to more than three times the amount of this employee's base salary. For perspective, this amount of overtime would have required this employee to work an average of 17-hour days, consisting of eight regular workhours and about nine overtime hours every day for 365 days a year,.

Despite such remarkable findings, the Postal Service said it is not sure whether it should try to work to reduce massively rising overtime.

"Increasing complement with the intent of reducing overtime may not be the best long term solution," the service said in response to the IG report. "The appropriate use of overtime continues to give management the greatest latitude to utilize its resources at the least possible cost while controlling future salaries and benefits of new employees."

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: fraud; overtime; postoffice; usps
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-26 next last

1 posted on 08/28/2020 8:44:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

If they poop in your yard, they’re still getting paid!


2 posted on 08/28/2020 8:45:29 AM PDT by Professional
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Bookmark.


3 posted on 08/28/2020 8:46:24 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Ouch. What the hell is going on here and how/why did the GOP not bring this up at the hearings?

The postal service is the poster-child for why “government” is not good at running things.


4 posted on 08/28/2020 8:48:22 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Primary skill set being the ability to sort.


5 posted on 08/28/2020 8:52:47 AM PDT by Orbiter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Orbiter

“Primary skill set being the ability to sort.”

Machines sort it all today.

Primary skill is LIFTING and of course DROPPING things labeled fragile !!


6 posted on 08/28/2020 8:55:19 AM PDT by George from New England
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

It’s a union shop environment. ALL union shop environments try to milk overtime.


7 posted on 08/28/2020 8:59:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I think the Postal Employees Union is scamming all of us. I recently ordered a product on the internet, and had it shipped to my PO Box via USPS. I started tracking the package early, and it looked like it was going to be delivered two days early. I saw the status as the package being in my local facility, then I get a message saying the package has been delivered. I go to the post office and NOTHING. Come back home and the tracking now shows it’s only in the Kansas City facility. Somehow they manipulated the tracking history to move it halfway back across the country and remove the previous history.

Now, 3 days later still NOTHING. It is now 3 days late. I think the union thugs are deliberately dragging their feet to piss us off so we’ll demand they get more money.


8 posted on 08/28/2020 9:00:36 AM PDT by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Orbiter

A lot of sorting is still done by hand. At least at your local post office setting up for delivery.

Biggest problem they have is they never know what Jeff Bezos is going to dump on them day to day.


9 posted on 08/28/2020 9:01:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

Is their pension based off of how much money they make in their final year, including overtime? A lot of government pensions are.


10 posted on 08/28/2020 9:02:55 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk
the USPS is part of the “swamp”.....and its been that way for a long time....sucking off the Govt teat makes 99% of them democrats......they vote their own best interests....even when they don't agree with the Dems policies....the Unions are the same way...I was in one for awhile...I know how they think...

they are a lower part of the “Deep State” and don't even realize it.....

11 posted on 08/28/2020 9:08:04 AM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I remember the mailman coming into our little office and talking for a half an hour. Day after day....cuz he could get inside...not like a home. And yes, the mailbox was outside.


12 posted on 08/28/2020 9:11:17 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

I had a contract at Boeing about 20 years ago where my lead really liked me. I had gone through a bitter divorce (after 20 years of marriage) and and was paying thousands a month in alimony and child support.

So, I was the only person they interviewed for the job and it paid $75 an hour for normal COBOL work and time and a half for overtime. Even though there was not a lot of work, he let me work a ton of overtime.

Saved my butt financially.


13 posted on 08/28/2020 9:12:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk

This is why the Postmaster is trying to get overtime under control. He told the Congresscritters that instead of using overtime to run one package to an address just so it could be on time, they will put it on the load for the next day. I sometimes see four mail trucks per day on my street, one for regular mail and the others for packages. That is not an efficient method of delivery.


14 posted on 08/28/2020 9:13:10 AM PDT by Savage Rider
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: M-cubed

I was a supervisor at a large defense agency in St Louis years ago. Overtime was baked into the culture and scheduled religiously. Shops would sometimes assign certain people overtime because they “needed the money”. When a push came down from headquarters to reduce overtime things got ugly. The employees had adjusted their spending habits to having consistent overtime pay.


15 posted on 08/28/2020 9:16:08 AM PDT by Stevenfo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...

16 posted on 08/28/2020 9:16:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Savage Rider

Maybe the USPS should hire someone away from Amazon.


17 posted on 08/28/2020 9:18:54 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: M-cubed

There’s a famous episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the Enterprise is locked in an epic battle with the Borg. The Borg adapt so rapidly that none of the Enterprise tactics will work for very long.

Finally they win when Data identifies a low-level system that is lightly protected and uses it to put the Borg to sleep.

I see parallels. The Deep State tried to take Trump out with a full frontal (DOJ and Intel) and they failed. They are trying again using less protected low-level systems (Public Health and the Postal Service).


18 posted on 08/28/2020 9:22:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Hojczyk; SunkenCiv; Liz

Oh wait! That 3400 hours of paid time was to a union employee.

Now we know that is was all honest.


19 posted on 08/28/2020 9:25:25 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Robert A Cook PE

Heh——good one.


20 posted on 08/28/2020 9:29:38 AM PDT by Liz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-26 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson