Postal Service Offers Early Retirement to Mail Handlers

The U.S. Postal Service is responding to a drop in mail volume by offering early retirement to certain long-time employees.

The early retirement offer “is part of ongoing efforts to right size our workforce through attrition to match current and projected workload,” David Partenheimer, a spokesman for the Postal Service, told Bloomberg Law Jan. 9.

The offer targets mail handlers, whose job is to load and move bulk mail and perform other processing duties.

Offering early retirement will help the USPS cut labor costs by reducing the number of higher paid career employees, Steve Kearney, executive director of the Alliance ...