Comments on: USPS Posts $1.1 Billion Loss For Third Quarter

By: SF CARRIER

SF CARRIER — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:07:01 +0000

Post Office Going Down…WHY?
-high school graduate management
-big bonus and salary of management
-no customer service
-too many light duty employee
-management eliminate overtime by hiring more people then they bought those expensive machines too eliminate man power job. So now they have a lot of extra employee..ha..ha..ha
-management change a lot of things that are complicated
-management creating new positions that are not too important or can be eliminated
-about 3 years ago, management said that we are losing money because mail volume going down but how come they hired more people after then.
-too stressful workplace

BEST SOLUTION…FIRED THOSE SCREW UP MANAGEMENT

By: Shana Anderson

Shana Anderson — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:48:18 +0000

The reason they’re losing so much business is because of their HORRIBLE customer service. The represenatives (with some exceptions, of course) are incredibly rude and lazy. I called the post office Customer Service a few days ago just to ask about a Change of Address request and the lady misunderstood my question and answered a question that I did not ask then when I asked her the question again, she shouted at me repeatedly saying the same thing she had said before. And then she hung up. I know I should have just hung up earlier, but I was completely shocked. I will be glad if the USPS gets completely eliminated. Most of them are getting paid without doing anything other than yelling at people all day. They’re too relaxed, thinking they’ll keep their jobs forever. I have only encountered a few who are meticulous and not mean.

By: Kaptah

Kaptah — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:04:12 +0000

I retired a year ago. I was a EAS employee.
I cannot start to tell you the level of ineptitude and ignorance displayed by my peers in mail processing (P&DC). It was frightening seeing how many EAS employees were functioning illiterates. Some comments (Phil) seem to prop up the fact that EAS employees are deserving of the money they are paid. NOT!
Does this include me? YES
I used to be a Mailhandler before getting ‘promoted’, I found that I had to do less work, employ less mental prowess as a EAS floor supervisor, than that as a mailhandler.

Small wonder that the USPS is on the ropes presently, this is the beginning of the end to the USPS as we all know it. Assign blame freely,
you won’t be too far off the mark, as ignorance and apathy by EAS employees have now culminated into this present situation.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:15:38 +0000

For Sambo and others: Management is inundated with numerous dynamic tasks daily. True! The most important of which is the mailflow, but like I said earlier management is inundated with tasks. Therefore when a craft person masters a task by performing the same tasks day to day and ultimately becoming an expert at that task, how can they ridicule management for not knowing that task as good as they do?
Simple Craft narrow focus/ Management wide focus this is not a fantasy it is a fact!. Let’s say I take that craft employee (that does the same thing day after day after day) and let them function within the same dynamic playing field as the supervisor would that craft employee excel? MAYBE! Here is what would NOT happen. That craft employee would NOT be ridiculed for NOT knowing as much as that EAS employee. Why because the nature of that EAS job is dynamic & volatile, and they must know much about many things and cannot know all about of everything. If anyone were to know ALL about everything why would they work for USPS and not be self employed? By the way it’s not 205B it’s 204B

By: Sambo

Sambo — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:36:38 +0000

The problem is that most all of the supervisors don’t know the mail or mail flow. So in turn they don’t know how to instuct employees how to handle certain situations. Recently we had our dump removed from the P&DC, all sacked mail is now being sent to the SPBS unit. Well in doing this we now have an operation within an operation. You see alot of sack mail comes presorted via direct cr rt bundles, direct mx sts bundles, etc. Well as the new sack volume started to reach the SPBS unit, almost all of the employees didn’t know you could send this sack on its way without dumping. So they just dumped the sacks on the belt causing a double handle effect, which in turn costs more man hours and money. My point is that had management had any kind of sense/brains, they wouldl have had a service talk explaining things so the workers would be able to handle the mail in a more productive manner. But who am I but a dumb employee who doesn’t know how things work. And by the way they added twice the work to our unit without adding even 1 extra person, and then get mad when mail doesn’t get done. Let’s not forget also most management or 205b’s, are those employees we all use to hate to work with because you always had to carry their weight.

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:40:47 +0000

Our post office has been paying record amounts of rent for an antiquated building that needs millions in repairs. The owner wanted us out years ago and there are many vacant buildings that could be suitable with some rennovations. We could have property bought decades ago that would still be worth much more even with the real estate crisis, but the Postal Service won’t fight to own. Now, a city of over 100,000 may have its carriers of 140 routes divided up between nearby city post offices; decreasing rent but increasing travel costs. With the downturn in the economy, maybe the postal service can pick up some bargains and own their buildings. Then again, if the Postal Service doesn’t plan to be around much longer, keep renting.

By: larry rankins

larry rankins — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:14:04 +0000

the post office is ran by the most ignorant bunch of mnanagement in the world. they don’t think about quality only mumbers and it will be the demise of the postal service. we have to foster a better working environment and you lead by example not by title. management just does not get it.

By: Postal

Postal — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:43:49 +0000

I carried mail for 4 years and I have been a supervisor for 2 years. I told my employees that our jobs are in jeopardy lets work hard but no one
cared to listen. Now everything is going down the hill I hope we can get these militant union stewards to do their job “Work” while carriers work, deliver mail, these stewards listen music, talk on the phone, and take 2-3 hour lunch breaks. If you say something they all get together and ruin your operation. Carriers/Clerks have really no idea what their dues are used for.

By: layed off!!!

layed off!!! — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:36:38 +0000

i was just layed off last week, with the assurance of my manager that as one of 4 TEs in my office, that i did’nt have to worry. After busting my a** for the last year, watching about 10 “light duty” or “injured” employees sitting on their behind, letting me take the slack plus full routes. This last year has been rediculous, i read some of the comments above, and favoritism is the key word. I had a tendency to “question” my supervisor on his decisions and I was the chosen one to have “let go”. How bout some pay cuts….watching light duty employees milk the usps, plus overpaid supervisers that have never carried a full route in 100 degree weather, makes it clear whose behind you have to kiss to keep a job with usps. I received a letter with no contact #, no way to inquire about another position at usps, my manager just said, nope theres no one to talk to about this, sorry. thats all he had to say. and sent my on my way. what company does that? now i will try to get a job at ups or fed ex. usps doesnt appreciate the hard workers, just what looks good on the books.

By: et1987

et1987 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:17:00 +0000

the function of the FSS and other new equipment is to sort the mail to the delivery level. this way it is no longer necessary for the carriers to sort the mail by hand before going out on their routes. The goal is to eliminate a third of the carrier positions. their is a video on you tube from the Post Office stating this. as to the practice of nepotism, now its mostly about getting high enough so your job is one of the last to go. In the private sector, the best minds would be brought in to broaden income streams and cut out the cancerous dead weight. In this organization short sighted “me first” management is the rule. I don’t fear the PO being privatized, it would actually save real workers .