Issues
USPS Vision for the future
Withdraw all postal employees from current participation in federal health and retirement plans and place them in two newly created plans managed by the Postal Service
Create a tiered system for allocating benefits such that current retirees, active employees, and new hires would receive different benefits according to their employment status and/or age and proximity to retirement
Provide future employees with access to only one retirement option, a defined contribution plan
Acquire the ability to adjust benefit plans based on "changing market conditions"
Eliminate 120,000 career positions through layoffs by 2015
Eliminate 6 day delivery
Lower Delivery Standards
Acquire legislative change to break union contracts and layoff workers
Close and consolidate post offices and mail processing plants
Create a tiered system for allocating benefits such that current retirees, active employees, and new hires would receive different benefits according to their employment status and/or age and proximity to retirement
Provide future employees with access to only one retirement option, a defined contribution plan
Acquire the ability to adjust benefit plans based on "changing market conditions"
Eliminate 120,000 career positions through layoffs by 2015
Eliminate 6 day delivery
Lower Delivery Standards
Acquire legislative change to break union contracts and layoff workers
Close and consolidate post offices and mail processing plants
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