APWU Buyout Incentive Approved

  APWU, USPS Negotiate Retirement Incentive

"...The APWU has negotiated a retirement incentive agreement that awards eligible full-time career employees a $15,000 payment in two installments, President Cliff Guffey has announced. The first installment will be $10,000; the second will be $5,000...."

Reference: www.apwu.org  

Mail Handler Buyouts: Not many takers on small buyout offer

  Postal Service: More than 7,000 postmasters, mail handlers could take buyouts (but clerks are still waiting)

"...the early-out option has been a much better sell among the nation’s 21,000 postmasters than its roughly full-time 43,000 mail handlers..."

Reference: Postal Newsgroup