Posted on 01/19/2014 7:28:46 AM PST by re_tail20
I can see them unionizing Staples and watching the whole enterprise go down the tubes in 18 months.
That’s a very competitive segment of retail.
“I think he was being sarcastic vette, that’s how I took it anyways.”
Well if so, I apologize. But it needed a Sark tag. I get pi$$ed off every time I go into the post office. It’s like they all know that they are “a protected class,” and they go out of their way to let you know it! Having the USPS go out of business, that is have it absorbed by private enterprise, would be a very good thing. We would still have to give them their “retirement” but at least the bleeding would be stopping and we would not have to put up with their insufferable attitude. The USPS Is like Detroit. At one time, they had almost a million “employees,” now they are down to less than half of that number and they really need to can another 200,000.
Since I hate Staples, I’m having a problem seeing the downside of your scenerio.
Maybe I’d get a decent office supply store nearby.
A deal with Walmart will be huge. The post office should do that. There is a lot of potential.
The window clerks are a small percentage of the postal workforce. Except for mail delivery, most of the grunt work of the USPS occurs behind the scenes between dusk and dawn and I can assure you from first hand experience that many of those people work very hard and conscientiously.
The window clerks are a small percentage of the postal workforce. Except for mail delivery, most of the grunt work of the USPS occurs behind the scenes between dusk and dawn and I can assure you from first hand experience that many of those people work very hard and conscientiously.
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The postal grunts, particularly the perdiems are the most abused, poorly used, overworked workforce in the States.
It’s not a good job to try to grow old in. Those parcels and sacks of mail do not sprout wings and move themselves and there’s always a deadline. Whether USPS, UPS or FedEx, people who do that work have my respect.
“I can assure you from first hand experience that many of those people work very hard and conscientiously.”
Yeah, like the one “young Holder’s person” who picked up one of our business utility bills at the USPS Mail Center in Richmond, CA where she worked, cashed one check she had made up for $3,200, and was apprehended at another bank trying to get another $2,000, you me that kind for “conscientious” worker? Thank heaven for an alert bank employee.
You’ve seemed to have bad luck with your USPS interactions because a Rasmussen poll a few years ago showed that the public generally thinks highly of the USPS. Obviously few of those poll respondents have had the problems you have suffered. But I can imagine that there’s a few badly run postal areas like yours must not reach the general levels of customer satisfaction that led to the favorable response to Rasmussen’s query.
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