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092765 1 (1970-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwrc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CIVIL DIVISION UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FEB G 7970 Dear Mr. Klassen The General Accounting Office has made a preliminary survey of the payment of premium compensation such as Sunday premium pay and night differential pay to postal employees for processing nonpriority second-, third-, and fourth-class mail During fiscal year 1969, Sunday premium pay of about $18 million and night differential pay of about $91 million were paid to postal employees Our survey was conducted primarily in the Seattle, Washington, Postal Region, and at Department headquarters n Washington, D.C. The purpose oi this letter is to summarize our observations made in the Seattle Postal Region. We plan to further develop some of the matters noLed in this survey during our current examination of the utiLI- zation of resources in mechanized sectional center post offices currently being conducted in the Detroit, Michigan, Post Office. We are suspending further survey work in the Seattle Postal Region because the Postmaster General has stated that the Department is con- sidering the advisability of proposing that airmail and first-class mail service be reorganized into two new categories of mail service--priority and nonpriority mail--and we believe that such an action, together with certain changes in the mail collection and processing operations, could significantly reduce the payment of premium compensation for processing nonpriority mail Our survey at the Seattle Postal Region indicated that the payment of premium compensation rates to process second-, third-, and fourth- class mail is attributable to the Department's requirement that all first-class mail be processed within a short time after receipt. Section 333 321 of the Postal Manual requires that generally, all outgoing first- class mail must be processed through the primary and the secondary dis- tribution within 90 minutes after having been received by the post office.' Section 333 322 of the Postal Manual requires that all incoming first- class mail be processed for immediate delivery. The number of pieces of first-class mail processed during fiscal year 1968 amounted to about 43 billion pieces--about 54 percent of the total mail volume. The quantity of first-class mail processed varies greatly during a 24-hour period, with most first-class mail being processed during two V V orz 7Z5'

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