Effective December 1, 2011, Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM), Part 113, Definitions, is revised to clarify that a postmaster may be responsible for the management of more than one Post Office™ facility, and that the postmaster may assign duties to subordinate personnel, including when the postmaster is not physically present.
Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM)
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1 Organizational Structures
110 General Information
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113 Definitions
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113.3 Organizational Entities
Organization entities include the following:
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[Revise 113.3k as follows:]
k. Post Office – an organizational entity subordinate to a district, and perhaps also an administrative Post Office, managed by a postmaster, with responsibility for customer services, local delivery, the receipt and dispatch of all classes of mail, and in some instances, processing and distribution of mail for other Post Offices in the surrounding geographic area. A postmaster may be responsible for the operation of more than one facility, and duties may be performed by designated subordinate personnel at the direction of the postmaster, including when the postmaster is not physically present.
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We will incorporate this revision into the next printed version of the ELM and into the online update available on the Postal Service™ PolicyNet website:
n Go to http://blue.usps.gov.
n Under “Essential Links” in the left-hand column, click PolicyNet.
n On the PolicyNet page, click Manuals.
(The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.).
— Customer Service Operations,
Delivery and Post Office Operations, 12-1-11
