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Government

US Post Office Spent Big OT Bucks To Cover Workers While They Campaigned For Hillary

2017-07-12

[Hot Air] The Post Office lost $5.6B dollars in fiscal year 2016. (To be fair, they actually showed a small profit, but the federal government forced them to pony up $5.8B to fund future retiree pension costs. That’s a story for another day, however.) But they might have made up a bit of that cash if they weren’t paying overtime costs to cover workers in battleground states who took unpaid leave to go campaign for Hillary Clinton. If that sounds like the sort of thing which would never happen where you work, well... you’re probably right. But once again we need to look no further than the involvement of the union which represents your letter carriers. (Government Executive)
Supervisors must approve gov't overtime. Should be pretty easy to find the responsible party(s).

Posted by:Besoeker

#5 Oh, I'm sure the various tax collection and complicity bodies have a different view.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-07-12 21:49

#4 The day of the First Class letter is dead and gone. The USPS exists today to deliver junk mail. A sideline is packages.

Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-07-12 09:36

#3 Rather than abolish Civil Service, abolish government employee unions.

Yes I realize they there isn't a snowball's chance in he'll of that ever happening. The unions RUN the government. They would shut it down at the first sign of any threat to their power.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-12 08:59

#2 Semi-private. Whether you like it or not, the Constitution calls for the operation of the post office by Congress.

Section 8 - The Text
The Congress shall have Power...

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

Just another reason to abolish Civil Service and go back to patronage. One, its there already in practice. Two, then you can hold your Congresscritters directly responsible for stuff like this.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-12 07:53

#1 I thought the USPS moved towards privatization under George H.W. Bush and was operated like a private business. Are the taxpayers on the hook for these OT costs or not? If the PO operated at a loss because of bad policies and management, the OT costs would have to be made up somehow (probably by the taxpayers). If operating costs increased, eventually, these costs would have to be passed on to users via higher costs for mail services and postage--thus the taxpayers would foot the bill.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-12 07:34

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