10,000/50 = 200 per state. With each employee averaging $60K/year that's around a total savings of $600 million bucks. Pretty good chunk of savings. 200 layoffs per state is not too drastic, probably about five employees per mail distribution facility in the big cities.
I retired from the Postal Service after 30 years. I began just before automation took effect. I remember when you could smoke while casing or sorting mail. I though "man, how is this not illegal?" but that was just before the smoking ban was instituted throughout all government facilities. I was a part time clerk, postmaster, supervisor, 204B, OIC, and city letter carrier. The best position was being a postmaster. Not too much responsibility and lots of free time. I was frustrated being a clerk because of all the union rules. Certain clerks could only do certain jobs and if you did other jobs then a grievience was filed and the aggrevied party got money.......for not working. I was very good at being a letter carrier, but what stuck in my craw was how my route was the only one in the office that got additional territory added to it. By the time I retired I had about two hours added to a walking route. Ugh, that was not a good time and I only suffered through it for a few months. Yet at the same time the volume of letter mail rapidly declined, so every carrier in the office should have had territory added. Yet they lost territory, saying the Amazon packages added time to their routes. Yea, right. I got tired of being good and efficient, so I retired and took my pension and told them to stuff it.
10,000/50 = 200 per state. With each employee averaging $60K/year that's around a total savings of $600 million bucks. Pretty good chunk of savings. 200 layoffs per state is not too drastic, probably about five employees per mail distribution facility in the big cities.
I retired from the Postal Service after 30 years. I began just before automation took effect. I remember when you could smoke while casing or sorting mail. I though "man, how is this not illegal?" but that was just before the smoking ban was instituted throughout all government facilities. I was a part time clerk, postmaster, supervisor, 204B, OIC, and city letter carrier. The best position was being a postmaster. Not too much responsibility and lots of free time. I was frustrated being a clerk because of all the union rules. Certain clerks could only do certain jobs and if you did other jobs then a grievience was filed and the aggrevied party got money.......for not working. I was very good at being a letter carrier, but what stuck in my craw was how my route was the only one in the office that got additional territory added to it. By the time I retired I had about two hours added to a walking route. Ugh, that was not a good time and I only suffered through it for a few months. Yet at the same time the volume of letter mail rapidly declined, so every carrier in the office should have had territory added. Yet they lost territory, saying the Amazon packages added time to their routes. Yea, right. I got tired of being good and efficient, so I retired and took my pension and told them to stuff it.