Just for general info. I’ve been an employee of the Postal Service for nearly 25 years. All of my three children have been raised in the same house that we bought 19 years ago. One in college, Two on the way. To say that I am proud just doesn’t cut it. I know many friends through the years who were making more, spending more, and living higher on the hog than I could even consider. My budget didn’t allow it. So while you may think we are overpaid for what we do, when the hard times came, (and they’re here for a while), my friends have lost homes, pulled kids from private schools, filed bankruptcy, and otherwise suffered calamity of all sorts.But the USPS never missed a day of delivering the mail, nor did they outsource our jobs to other countries like dems and repubs alike have facilitated. They kept on working. You can bitch about your mail being slow, or damaged, or missing and there will be a human to report it to. That human might just be a conservative, like myself. There are many conservatives in the USPS. There are even may constitutionalists, like myself. We talk and debate about the future of this country because we love this country. The fact is that the constitution specifically provides for the government to do this particular thing, deliver mail, unlike so many other things that the government is doing which are criminal and unconstitutional. So I urge you to resist the temptation to generalize. Your mail may have been intentionally damaged by some ***hole, or it might not have, but those kinds of people are in every walk of life. Just deal with it without slandering an entire group of people who do their jobs well and with care.
“Just deal with it without slandering an entire group of people who do their jobs well and with care.”
Great post,dwn.
My wife works for the federal government,too. She’s been with Veteran’s Affairs Canada for over 20 years. Loves her job. She has always gone the “extra mile” for Vets with their claims for disability pensions, mostly because she can feel empathy for them. I couldn’t count how many personal “thank you’s” she has received from Vets or their survivors who had given up on any kind of compensation until she took over their cases. Yeah, there are a few in her position who do the job with indifference, but there are also some “gems”. Like I said, great post.
Did not slander anyone ...simple advice on dealing with bad service. I really don’t have many problems with the post office because I rarely use it from my end and get mostly junk mail from the other end. I really would not miss it if they went to every other day service.
I am glad there are good people like you working there...I am just suspicious that three obvious mailings of mine have been damaged.
I hope you understand.