Excessing 101 - a Western Region Training

Included with consolidations, delayed collections, hiked postage and restructuring , management is cutting 50 million work hours. All of these will impact thousands of postal workers disrupting both home and work life. Management’s consolidating models and staffing/scheduling computer programs, mean what ever they want them to mean.

The current restructuring of USPS, termed in postal speak as ‘modernization’ is a top down decision process. Local managers have little say but are the ones who implement the changes however incompetently done. The following is an overview of the provisions by which postal workers and their Union Representatives deal with work floor disruption.