USPS: 2,200 rural carriers won’t get regular paychecks on time because of timekeeping errors

A Postal Service timekeeping error will prevent a couple thousand rural carriers from receiving their regular paycheck on time this week.

USPS says the issue is local in nature, and will affect a small fraction of rural carriers, compared to the tens of thousands of employees who were impacted by a major payroll error back in September.

As a temporary workaround, USPS is giving impacted employees the option to receive a money order in the approximate sum of their paycheck this week.

USPS spokesman David Coleman told Federal News Network in a statement Tuesday that, “due to timekeeping errors at the local level,” approximately 2,220 USPS rural carriers will not be paid through the normal process this Friday.