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As the Postal Service continues to consolidate its work operations, the first impacted are clerks. Clerks positions are converted over to other work assignments, some of which will be converted over to the carrier craft. Those that are not are facing a dillemia.

In Cleveland some displaced clerks are being reassigned to positions some 330 miles away, according to an article in the OHIO REAL-TIME NEWS. Could the same happen to carriers dispalced by route consolidations?

The following is an excerpt from that article:

"More than 150 post office employees in Cleveland were handed the dreaded news Thursday -- not quite pink slips, but new job assignments up to 330 miles from home.

The U.S. Postal Service can't lay workers off under contracts with its employee unions. So when it cuts staff, as the Cleveland area is doing because the amount of mail is dropping, the contracts kick off a complicated shuffle of workers to fill open positions, first within the region, and then farther away as needed."

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July 26, 2009