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According to the website FederalTimes.com the Postal service has agreed to adjust city letter carrier routes if the mail volume continues to drop. Which will lead to route eliminations in the thousands. Many rural routes have already gone through this process.

The Postal Service reached an agreement today with its city letter carriers that will make it easier to adjust delivery routes if mail volumes continue to fall — a process that could eliminate thousands of routes.

The deal came after negotiations with the National Association of Letter Carriers, the union that represents more than 214,000 active city letter carriers. It allows the Postal Service to use a formula to analyze delivery routes, based on mail volume, and change the routes accordingly.

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Post Master General John Potter, also reported that there is no plan to offer incentives for early retirement. “Our employees would love some kind of a windfall, but the fact is, we can’t afford to,” Potter said.