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USPS acknowledges some risks to its new, less-staffed holiday season approach (www.govexec.com)
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The U.S. Postal Service is planning to hire just 10,000 temporary employees during the current holiday season as part of a new approach that management has acknowledged comes with some risks.

The seasonal hiring marks a 64% reduction from the employees brought on in 2022 during what USPS calls its “peak season” when the agency made 28,000 temporary hires. The agency had said it would bring on just 20,000 seasonal workers that year, but a recent USPS inspector general report found it reached a higher tally.

The Postal Service is planning to hire about 4,500 retail and delivery employees, down 30% from last year, and about 5,500 operations and processing workers, a 75% reduction.

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[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 11 points 10 months ago

Why hire less workers? Is that shitty DeJoy still in charge?

[–] shiveyarbles 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Management: hmmm let's cut employees and see how it goes... It's worth the risk

[–] Snorf@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Yet today, we had custodians and eng techs sorting mail.