Postal Retirement – Preparing the Workforce
Preparing for Postal Retirement
The Postal Service has several programs designed to secure upward mobility for its workforce. There is an Advanced Leadership Program, an Associate Supervision Program, a National Center for Employee Development and a Managerial Leadership Program and an online platform to access your benefit information and make certain elections, LiteBlue.usps.gov. All of these programs are designed to help the Postal Employees grow in their career and prepare for retirement.
Each program, from LiteBlue to the Thrift Savings Plan, is designed to help and to develop a workforce of excellence, equipped with the knowledge, skills and abilities to implement operations required by high-tech equipment and practices necessary to carry-out the complex work of the Postal Service and to retire comfortably.
In order to reach the Postal Service’s large and multi-jurisdictional workforce, the service uses a plethora of e-learning tools and other technology to train its employees. The Postal Service’s training profile is designed to recruit and train program leaders and managers up to the executive level of operations.
An unfortunate reality, however, is the fact that the USPS has chosen to remove most HR functions from local Post Office with the creation of the Shared Services. The need for direction, therefore, on HR and Retirement related questions often falls to potentially untrained individuals at your Station and word of mouth recommendations. The need for financial professionals has never been more important to the Postal employees and soon to be retirees because of the demographic shift and the aging of the workforce, along with the ever increasing complexity in TSP funds and recommendations, FEGLI comparisons and ways for these employees to protect their lifestyle and financial well-being in retirement.
If you’re a Postal employee and have questions on your benefits and postal retirement, PSRetirement.com can provide you with introductions to local FERS, CSRS, TSP and FEGLI experts and may be able to facilitate a free Benefit Analysis for you and members of your office or Local Union looking for direction or help. Regardless of where you turn, make sure that you are getting the information you rely upon from a competent expert in your complex benefit and retirement options.
Information on the unique benefits for Postal Employees is also important to understand
Other Postal Retirement and LiteBlue Related Pages
What Postal Employees Should Do On LiteBlue Before Retirement
Changing Your LiteBlue / PostalEase Password Through ssp.USPS.gov
eRetire for Postal Employees – Retirement Applications on LiteBlue
Use LiteBlue to Manage your FEHB
You can use LiteBlue and PostalEase to manage your Allotments
Requesting Duplicate Postal Employee W-2 Forms Using LiteBlue
