Corbett said the agency expects 30,000 employees to retire during fiscal year 2010, which ends Sept. 30, 2010. More positions will be eliminated as other employees resign and those positions are not filled.So this massive, multi-year hiring freeze is simply the only way the USPS can stay in business. As I said, these are good paying jobs. They are going away permanently. That's the difference between this recession and so many others: the jobs lost here are never, ever coming back.
"We expect that we will be able to get to the right staffing levels through natural attrition," he told CNNMoney.com.
The USPS, which is not permitted to lay off employees, is currently under a nationwide hiring freeze. It has eliminated jobs in the past by offering early retirement packages and through attrition. It cut a whopping 40,000 positions this way in fiscal 2009 alone.
The USPS has shed more than 100,000 jobs in the last five years. It currently has about 600,000 full-time employees, down from about 705,000 full-time workers in fiscal year 2005.
At best, they will be replaced by minimum wage or temp positions in industries that are growing, rather than permanent jobs with benefits. Wages will continue to go down, productivity will continue to increase along with profits for corporations, and the middle class will continue to vanish.
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So it's a big conspiracy? I got it now! They'll never bring those jobs back! How many of them were actually needed vs. how many were government waste? Because ya 'know it's not unlike the government to create some bogus position or waste money right?
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