Comments on: USPS Says It Needs To Eliminate 9,200 City Carrier Routes in FY 2009

By: Allen Jeffries

Allen Jeffries — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:00:04 +0000

DUMP THE UNIONS! Why reward unproductive workers just because they’ve been employed longer than someone else? Unions are dinosaurs as is collective bargaining! Postal workers should be paid based upon productivity and merit and not through attrition! Why pay someone $50k who delivers LESS mail than someone at $30k who delivers more mail in less time than the higher wage earner? Unions promote sloth and ineptitude.Union memebership is DOWN across the board and hopefully for the sake of the USPS continues its decline into extinction! I already know the Union response, There will be lots of namecalling because that’s all they’re good for. So bring it on! I’m PROUD to be the cowardly self-centered scab, I’ve already been called by Union presidents, who by the way will not meet one on one to discuss our differences!

By: Obama

Obama — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:13:51 +0000

We will start by eliminating 9200 management positions and see how that works to start with. We will then cut the postmasters window time down to 4 hours a day, their asses keep getting wider by the minute from sitting infront of the computer at this site anyway, and will install pay phones in all offices, with no change machines. We might be able to sell stamps for 10 cents again. Maybe they will put my picture on that stamp!!

By: Get a clue

Get a clue — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:08:35 +0000

The USPS ship is going down, just like the Titanic, we too have a design flaw, top heavy management, and lowsy ones at that. Management says, well UPS has higher rates for shipping. Well yes is some cases, but me as well as a vast number of people, we don’t care we want a reputation and service and that is where UPS and Fed-Ex shine. I think management had better stop crunching numbers and focus on the people themselves. People is what runs the business, not numbers. I went to my local p.o. and bought stamps from 17 today. Oh that number is so rude!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:12:01 +0000

Get a look at office in the morning you have 3 clerks and five managers and why are we loseing money?

By: money

money — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:20:58 +0000

As a member of Management and former city carrier for 14 years I see both sides of all issues. I feel that the decisions made in the usps are made by individuals who have no idea the difficulty in delivering mail, working the sales windows and working in plants. Besides less than adequate facilities, lack of supplies, and not enough craft employees, upper management tries to create this scenario where front line management is responsible for any service or budget failures. The realization that the budget is doomed before it began, there is only so much to cut, there is only so many times you can ask your best employees to help out again. As an organization unless we learn to drastically change (the same way our country finally woke up and elected the most qualified man Obama)
We need to work together not against each other.
If we are truely looking to save, then eliminate all the cars that all the District Managers and employees have. Lets eliminate Public Affairs, lets reduce consumer affairs office, lets STOP ADVERTISING, people either buy stamps or not, not because they see an ad about it. Lets eliminate these elaborate stamp unveilings and reduce the management staff in Washington including the Board of Directors. Finally lets sell the flat sorting machines we bought, the mail is down and most of the flats come carrier bundles already anyway.

By: future

future — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:12:02 +0000

All supervisors and managers can be replaced by cctv. That’s all the saving the Post Office will ever need!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:36:49 +0000

Ill throw in my 2 cents. Although management does have a lot fat to trim, I can honestly with a straight face tell everyone that will listen that there are a lot of bad carriers out there. All of you out there with restrictions need to go. All of you sick leave abusers need to be cut loose, any other employer in the nation would have fired you a long time ago. All of you out there taking extra lunches, breaks etc need to go. Lets all be honest, there are a lot of gravy routes out there that need to be added to. The ship is sinking and all any one wants to do is whine about management this and that. The NALC spends entirely too much time protecting the weakest 5% of employees. NALC cut these slackers loose they are suffocating the post office and your other productive union members. Now before you start with the management accusations, know that im not in management. Im a card carying NALC member and im proud of it. But we as carriers DO need to look into the mirror and man up. As does management, but thats another post

By: Rick L.

Rick L. — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:36:20 +0000

Gee! The 1st thing management wants to do is get rid of carriers. I guees it nver crossed management’s mind to send all 204B’s back to the craft and maybe get rid of some employees that don’t have anything to do with delivery (like supervisors). Remember,before any carriers are let go, all TE’s must go 1st.Under Management’s current carriers will have their own personal supervisor with them 8 hours a day telling them what they are doing wrong and how bad they ars.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:04:25 +0000

You know if the Union’s would get on board and work with Management to ensure we are all effective and efficient, it would benefit us all. However, all the Union and it’s members want to do it ride the clock and make as much overtime as they can. They are not interested in working 8 hours for 8 hours pay. The belief by the Union and it’s members that Management is always trying to screw them is rediculous and absurd.

By: d-fus

d-fus — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:18:22 +0000

“Time wasting practice!” was the favorite phrase used by our supervisor. Fifty nine signed a petition letter asking for his removal for causing a “Hositle Work Environment”. Petition ignored. Supervisor promoted/detailed to manager and got into a heated altercation with a neighbor to the post office building after damaging their property with his private vehicle. Supervisor calls his immediate superior manager: “Stupid” and get away with it. Superisor promoted to OIC and was caught with a willing female employee, on the clock, in the post office building, having sex. Must be related to a cheta, getting it off in seconds, not time wasting practice. OIC was only sent back to his old position, she was transfered to another office so another manager can get in on the booty. Our new manager instructs (returned) supervisor to report to the main office, supervisor refuses to follow instuctions. Our new manager calls postal police to have him escorted out of the building. Supervisor call his buddy in District office, our new manager is immediately transfered to another post office ran by a buddy of the supervisor. Four times postal police had to escort employees out of our building, one in full combat fatigues. One was the cronie supervisor. One time Para-medics had to assist another letter carrier out of the office, he was screaming: “I am not a Robot!” His supervisor was the girl friend of the over sexed ex-OIC supervisor. When the Iraq and Afgan combat veterans become employed in the post office, a new round of going postal will occur.