The Downsizing of the Postal Workforce Slows

The dramatic downsizing of the U.S. Postal Service’s workforce has slowed considerably in the past year, according to USPS documents. The number of career employees decreased by only 25,409 in the 12 months leading up to June 2011, according to a USPS document released last week, vs. 44,145 in the previous 12 months and 36,326 in the year before that. That means the annual net attrition rate declined from 7.0 percent to 4.3 percent in the course of a year.

Much of the slowing attrition rate occurred in the 151,385-employee “Clerks/Nurses” category, which lost 7,839 workers in the past year