The Postal Service’s city delivery full-time carrier staffing varies at installations, consisting of excesses and shortages, partly because USPS has not established a maximum number of carriers needed per route in the budget process or at each installation based on need, the USPS inspector general has said.
The IG said the conditions contributed to installations exceeding their budgeted overtime by 10.4 million hours.
It said managing with maximum staffing levels and employing part-time resources would give the Postal Service options for reducing urban delivery labor costs by over $116 million each year.
The IG recommended that the vice president, delivery and post office operations, balance the number of FT carriers per route and manage labor costs within established budgets, as well as coordinate with the vice president of labor relations to continue pursuing the ability to increase the number of part-time, non-career flexible employees in the city letter craft to reduce labor costs.
