I am retired from that office, and have a lot of good friends working there.
During my time, I went through periods of working 70 hours a week, but only for a few weeks at a time. Not sustained like they are now. The extra money is nice, but it is exhausting and the quality of work suffers as employees burn out.
What the USPS is trying to reduce most is jobs. They have in the past calculated that it is cheaper to eat overtime pay than to hire new workers that will get paid benefits such as insurance and pensions. For example, our local satellite office was staffed by eight clerks in Jan 2020, but is now down to four clerks.
Of course, they want to limit overtime as well, but there are service goals still in place that local managers have to meet. (Such as delivering packages on Sundays.)
The biggest hurtle for the Post Office is revenue forgone. The Post Office does not use tax dollars, though they can borrow Federal funds to get through tough years. Meanwhile, the Post Office pays billions into the Treasury each year through mandated services and revenue forgone. Every year the Post Office calculates revenue forgone, presents it to the government, and every year Congress votes not to pay. Congress has still not repealed the onerous insurance "pre-funding" imposed by the W Bush Administration.
Sorry to go on a rant here. The Post Office has lots of problems imposed on it by outsiders, and DeJoy is just the latest one of many.
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