"A message on the NAPS member forum says that the postal service has “lifted the suspension of employee recognition and incentive awards”. The message is accompanied by a copy of a letter from HR VP Anthony Vegliante, dated September 28, which also announced that the USPS automated incentive program, eAwards, would be available once again. The incentive program had been suspended when the agency’s financial situation worsened."

can someone with NAPS access cut and paste Vegliante's letter?...

thats a good idea etour.

I went to the eawards link on blue and it still states that eawards are suspended.

postalvet, i guess no one wants to share :(
the napus hotline makes a reference to the reinstatement of awards, but no specific language from vegliante.

Is anyone thankful to be employed in the USPS anymore? When is the Postmaster General going to work in a plant? When is a Postmaster going to walk in a carriers' shoes? When is a Carrier or Clerk going to realize what mental weight wears on a Postmasters' mind? When is a MPOO going to stand up for their employees or a District Manager going to say Thank You for your hard work? It won't happen and neither will the cussing and fussing and no elements of change going to occur. When will the League, NAPUS, NALC, APWU, and NAPS all sit down and say, I think our members deserve us all to get together to save our jobs, our organizations and work together getting all of USPS on one page and these organizations? It won't happen. I believe it could if you take away their paying member dues and quit padding the pocket of the higher management and these organizations and just let the employees believe in each other and in their own offices and let the politics stay politics. There is too many orders, too many demands and the givers who keep believing are tired of working without proper pay while the ones who kiss ace to save face are reaping the benefits. The USPS will go under and so will everyone attached to it if the real working voices of the company don't speak up. Learn what makes your offices function, not in words; but in the tools they tell us to use in our checklists and audits. Know your Form 150s, know how to use webbats and the facilities databases of your office to compare with other offices of the same grade. Can you read the Flash, FPR, DOIS, AVUS, and TACS? You have to learn the education of your office and use it against them. Support your employees and stand up for them. The layers of MPOO, Postmasters, Clerks, Carriers, Supervisors are not communicating with one another. So start in your office and break the barriers. The MPOO is not above the PM, the PM is not above the Clerk and Carriers and the Supervisors are playing referee to all the above. Get over the AUTHORITY and MICRO-MANAGING and work together. I will continue to believe in USPS even though their circle jerk games suck. I still believe and no one can take that away from me and as a dedicated employee of USPS, I only hope everyone else gains the knowledge, the verbal ability and friends to help you do this in your offices. Good Luck. It could be worse, we could be unemployed without paid vacation leave, sick leave, paid holiday leave, TSP and a job security that most working Americans will never know. SO quit fussing, start acting and see how you can make others believe too. Good luck, I can't get no one to listen to me but it's worth trying; someone may.

Me. I am thankful /m3695 and continue to learn more everyday.

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 Newbie, there are 2 kinds of overtime.
There is FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) overtime, that applies to nearly everyone everywhere, and provides for overtime after 40 hours per week.

Then there is Postal overtime, negotiated by the unions, that applies to career postal employees who work over 8 hours in a day.

If you work 10 hours per day for four days, you will get 32 hours of straight time and 8 hours of (postal) overtime.

If my PMR (not a career employee) works 4 10- hour days, she gets 40 hours straight time.

Like others have mentioned, there is also penalty overtime. But let's leave that for another time.

Hey Jack does it count if I'm working so hard I vomit?

/3695 You should get some help.

I believe-3695, When you ramble on, and don't even make paragraphs, just one big mess, you have already lost peoples attention. Save your breath.

/m3795

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Heard there will a mass exodus of postmasters leaving in January. They didn't get their PFP!!!!

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There is also another type of overtime that is rarely discussed. They put someone new and inexperienced in a job and they go to work at 6 am and do not clock in till 8 am and clock out at 5 pm and stay til 6 pm. That's called working off the clock and it is wrong and it is illegal but management turns a blind eye to it. You can lose your job for falsifying time records and that is exactly what they are doing. I pass several post offices on my way to work in the am and roughly half of these offices have postmasters or OIC's doing this. What makes it bad is when these people leave the POOM wants to know why so and so could do the job with x many hours and you can't. these people should all be reported to the OIG's office .

I can't work off the clock: exempt.

You're right, Forest.

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