Posted on 04/23/2020 4:52:26 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
> With the USPS, every American can engage on their page without the fear of censorship or shadow-banning.
Unfortunately it would end up like PBS and NPR.
You’d have better luck effecting a change in the employee’s attitude by talking to the Home Depot manager than I would’ve by talking to postal supervisor at the Post Office I visited today. I would’ve had zero luck.
I have a former Guard coworker who worked for the post office as a carrier. He used to regale us with stories about how he would finish his route early and go home for a nap or to do household chores. He also took a lot of time off to fly on Guard missions and one new supervisor told him he needed to chose between the Post Office and the Guard. He asked her to put it in writing and she did! So he filed a complaint with the union and our US Representative and she disappeared soon after. Multiply that by 100,000 and it’s no wonder that the Post Office is in such terrible shape. If people could only see the gross waste and inefficiency they would demand immediate action.
I hate to keep repeating myself, but you’re clueless. When I first started 30 years ago a big day might be 10 packages. Now, I average close to 100. What do you think is more labor intensive? Letters or mail? It’s not rocket science. New employee turnover is so high I don’t bother to learn names until they last 6 months. Which is a rarity
No argument there! Postal supervisors are the bigger problem! The way things are now, that clerk was probably close to 60 hours for the week. Understaffing and high turnover makes for some bad attitudes.
My understanding was they used to be to mail deliveries a day.
And my grandmother relied on her typewriter to communicate with friends and family around the country and with relatives living abroad.
It was a lifeline to a world of information in the days before ‘social networks’
That’s a hella idea.
As in a hella good idea
If the USPS raises their rates then the business will go to Fed Ex, UPS, and their own delivery service. People in rural areas will pay more for their deliveries of everything because if the Post Office gets killed off the competition can jack their own prices up.
V-time should cure that.
The postal service in this rural area doesn’t deliver packages-they throw them at your gate, or at the post of your rural mailbox-both places are at the edge of the road, 75-200 ft. away from your house down a long driveway-so you get broken stuff, or your packages disappear because you are at work when the mail is delivered-so most of us don’t use the USPS at all-we get and pay our bills online, and we get our packages delivered-right to our deck or porch if we leave the gate open for them- by UPS or FedEX-but the postal service out for bids, like any private contract...
It is congress that is killing the post office.....it will not let them close some post offices or cut delivery to five days or some places less..
Most people get and pay bills online....they could deliver my mail once a week.....ninety percent junk mail....
They have, it’s the Thrift Savings Plan, about 1990 or so, everyone that has a pension will receive pension. Everyone hired after 1990 is Thrift Savings Plan, civil service and military time applies up to 1990, then Thrift Savings Plan retirement. I have 8 years military that applies, whatever percentage 8 years is of 30 years is what I receive of pension, the rest of my retirement is whatever I save in Thrift Savings Plan.
“Trump administration considers leveraging emergency coronavirus loan to force Postal Service changes”
i was really hoping that this is what President Trump would do when he said on one of his coronavirus pressers that the USPS needed to starting charging what packages really cost to deliver
btw, undercharging for package delivery does two things:
1. every dollar of taxpayer subsidization of package delivery goes into the pocket of some super-billionaire like Jeff Bezos, who owns amazon
2. amounts to unfair taxpayer subsidization that hurts mom and pop brick and mortar stores ...
Yes, a lot of UNION workers in the Post Office take advantage of whatever they can get away with, some of us still take pride in doing a good job and giving a good days work. I’m glad I NEVER joined, too many dems with dem attitudes.
Wrong! They would rather pay out the grievance money! By the tens of thousands in my station alone
Then why does UPS and FedEx contract with USPS to deliver last mile delivery?
We still get a pension, along with a Thrift Savings Plan and Social Security. That’s just false. The only difference between civil service and FERS is social security .
100 packages a day is a light day for me. I have a walking route, about 90% walking, 425 stops, mostly houses on medium to large lots, 7 1/5 miles of walking at different stops thru town. For over a year and a half our two full time city routes have been splitting the 2 1/2 hr auxiliary route, except Mondays and around Nov 15 thru mid January. My biggest package day was 162, hit my lunch loop at 4 PM that day. When we carry extra we still need to be done at 8 hrs.
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