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When Excessing Occurs

Management Message Confirms Excessing Moratorium (12/17/10) Union officials in locales where managers are balking at implementing the moratorium on excessing that was announced on Dec. 15 will be pleased to see an e-mail message from a headquarters-level manager notifying Area-level officials of the agreement. [read more] APWU, USPS Announce Freeze on Excessing Parties Agree to Moratorium As Talks Continue (12/15/10) The APWU and the Postal Service have agreed to a freeze on excessing while contract negotiations continue, union President Cliff Guffey has announced. [read more]

Excessing has been with us for many years, since the earliest days of mechanization and automation in postal installations. Without fail, the American Postal Workers Union has responded in the most effective way possible. Every National Agreement has included language that restricts excessing.

While automation has had a dramatic effect on the nation’s mail-delivery system, we have been able to make a solid case for preserving our jobs because our productivity has increased along with USPS productivity. We have responded to increased automation in mail processing by enforcing the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and by making sure that the agreement in turn requires the USPS to live up to past practices and its own rules, regulations, employee manuals, and handbooks.

Resources

The informational handbook “When Excessing Occurs: Know Your Rights and Benefits [PDF],” is a summary of your protection against excessing. It’s the APWU’s way of living up to our commitment of always putting our members first.

Click here to read "Excessing: Know Your Rights." This May 2009 Burrus Update provides a comprehensive outline of employee and union rights when excessing takes place."

Chapter 44 of the CSRS and FERS Handbook, published by the Office of Personnel Mangement (OPM), contains information about Discontinued Service Retirement.

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