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The PetersPapers on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 8:32 am


GOOD JOB – APWU – Oakland, CA!! Kudos!Management has not played honest or fair since the 24 years of my APWU experience. The MASTER SHELL GAME without minimal adequately executed ‘oversight’!! The APWU,NALC, MAIL HANDLERS, ET AL should be contacting their representatives in all 50 states! The term “Postal Management” has been an oxymoron for years. I would like to know what is going on at the national union level. (?)

There should be a TOTAL in depth investigation of the practices of the “oxymoron management” from “top down” OR “bottom up” by Congressional oversight(federalworkforce.oversight.house.gov). There was a hearing yesterday (Wednesday, 3/25/09). It is a time for more aggresive action nationally.

formerapwukoolaider on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 9:34 am


This has been going on for years?! OMG!! Did you complain befoer the tours were compressed and you lost your bid?

Union Guy on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 9:59 am


Go for it!! Start the ball rolling around the country!! Shame national level Union leaders aren’t this smart!!

Stupid APWU on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 10:12 am


Why did you give all the FSM jobs to the mailhandlers then???

PhatPostalGuy on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 10:55 am


Typical California Commie Lib Luddites. The marketplace will determine the viability of any financial enterprise.

Solutions may not be the answer to this particular problem except one:

CUT DELIVERY TO 3 DAYS A WEEK

Half of the communities Mon Wed & Fri
Other Half Tue Thur & Sat

D Clark on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 12:19 pm


I agreen they need to be looked onto. The usps has been eroding for years!

Dana P. on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 2:09 pm


In my 25 years plus with this wonderful organization, I have only seen it go down hill in recent years. I could only conclude that the top brass was getting some kind of a pay off from our competitors to run the USPS into the ground so that they (FedEx & UPS) could have our business.
There is some peculiarity to the way we are (mis)managed and an elaborate investigation is needed to save us. I hope that Washington is listening and takes decisive action before we perish.

Anonymous on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 3:41 pm


Dana P.

You nailed it!

m wojo on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 4:11 pm


The Postal Service is a sinking ship. All Potter and Co. are doing is drilling more holes in the bottom of the ship!

aslfriend on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 4:42 pm


geez, I think I heard something about drill,baby,drill recently, this time your right mwojo……but its to our sinking ship, we need a new captain to steer this vessel..

sly black on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 5:29 pm


What’s wrong with the USPS? I can threaten people with execution and keep my high level job. That’s a great company in my book.

A%%hole on Fri, 27th Mar 2009 12:02 am


FatPostalGuy is a moron.

r.c on Fri, 27th Mar 2009 3:33 am


Many supervisors stand and “watch” all night in our P&DC. At least 3 will stand and talk ALL night. But often its 4. At the end of the shift they will count the mail.(1/2 hr.) They NEVER return our leave slips (3971) and when you do need them for any particular question, you cant seem to find them. (they will go in supervisors office and talk there) I honestly dont know what they do all night in a P&DC. If you paid me for the answers on how they fill in 8 hours I couldnt tell you. But it appears the MDO will deliberatly create some frivilous chaos so supervisors will scurry appearing to fix whatever it is the MDO has created. Its to sad to be comical. The supervisor will then “pretend” he knows what it is YOUR doing and instruct you to do it different because he/she needs to feel busy…and of course,…supervise. Craft has been doing their jobs for many many years. Its not rocket science. Why do we need instructions after 20 years? Employees here have figured out what needs to be done in emergencies, and we do it. I promise you, we all come together when the need arises and there hasnt been a single situation we havent conquered..

Real old timer on Fri, 27th Mar 2009 9:13 am


What a bunch of lemmings. Why would UPS and Fedex want to privatize us? They saw the handwriting on residential delivery years ago. There is no money in what we do and they are losing money even in their specialty market.

moi on Fri, 27th Mar 2009 3:22 pm


If these lazy slugs would work an honest day, maybe the USPS would not be in such dire straights….

moi is a dope on Fri, 27th Mar 2009 3:31 pm


The lazy slugs all go into “management”. Which is probably what you are, slug.

dctx on Fri, 27th Mar 2009 7:45 pm


The Dallas district has reduced our PTF clerks to 26 hrs per week. We have 3 full time clerks to do the rest of the job. Our TE’s get only 32 hrs/wk. They can case a route and correctly deliver it better than some of our regular carriers. Our start time has been pushed back to 8 AM. Some offices are up to an hour later. If we have less mail, then it should be worked and finished earlier thus resulting in the carriers getting their mail earlier. So much for th 6 PM cutoff. Our office has not had a PM in over 6 yrs. We get temp PMs (PMS???) from other offices. There is no consistancy from one to another. Our office use to be self managed and it proved it could be done as all goals were achieved. Suffice it to say, if it works, break it. If it is broke, give management a bonus. Funny how incompetent workers are in management. They were that way when they were in craft. Mgmt could be streamlined from the top down. After all, all chiefs and no indians will get much done as they will be on their Blackberries texting all day. I cannot see Obama letting 646,000 employees from one company start drawing unemployment at once.

ET n TX on Sat, 28th Mar 2009 10:44 am


USPS in TX, It’s a whole different USPS down here…

Dana P. on Mon, 30th Mar 2009 5:12 pm


This is for you, real old timer. Please allow me to make my case here. UPS and FedEx would want a piece of our busniess, because they are shrewd and very business oriented people, who built a company from the ground up, where the people that are in charge of our organization took over the helm in mid flight, with little qualifications.
We’re not talking about residential delivery here or any type of street delivery. Removing some 200,000 vehicles from the equation, translates into greater profits, fewer accidents
and a transformed organization.
UPS or FedEx can contract office space in a location that everyone needs to travel to for our most basic needs, such as food and medicine, etc..etc.. While there, (we) can pick up our own mail, or pick up mail for our neighbor. Can you see the writing on the Wal-mart?
Nobody can look into the future, but I think we can all agree that some powerful people are trying to dismantle (US)PS.
The USPS is a very good organization to work for regardless of the daily hurdles. Many of the people in this fine organization are fortunate to have a job that pays well, as some of us had little chance at obtaining a decent education that would eventually lead to a great career.

P.S. We are all in this together and shall prevail if we stick together.

P.S.S. You can be certain that there are managers on all levels that are doing things that they oppose, but are cornered with no place to go. They, too, realize that the success of our dismantling means that they will be looking for a new job, too.
God be with us.

The Board of Governors on Tue, 31st Mar 2009 1:49 am


Sorry, UPS and FEDEX have nothing to do with USPS as a whole. Combined, they deliver a fraction of 1 percent of total USPS volume.

Dana P. on Thu, 2nd Apr 2009 5:22 pm


I am hopeful that the USPS can pull through this economic tailspin that we’re in. One solution that I would like to offer is difficult to put out there, but it may be a necessary pill that we’ll have to swollow, in order to survive. My idea goes to the letter carrier craft, which allows USPS to maintain 6 day delivery (vital to our small businesses) and still cut costs.

Here’s how it works: Let’s use a small office that has four city routes, with four regular carriers and one ptf., as an example.

Three of the four regular carriers are converted to ptf, making that one regular and four ptf’s. (Note: no one is layed off).

On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it will be business as usual — four carriers shall come in, set up their routes and make their deliveries.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, one carrier shall report for duty at 6 a.m. The system used to automate the letter mail will have all business mail and residential mail separated for each route, so that the (6 a.m.) carrier can throw in the business mail first, and by 10 a.m., have the business mail all sorted and one or two ptf’s can clock on at 10 a.m., pull down the business mail and make delivery to our business customers.

The size of our business community shall dictate the number of ptf’s needed for mail delivery on Tues., Thurs., and Sat).

The carrier that clocked in at 6 a.m. will finish throwing residential delivery mail into each of the four routes for delivery the next (delivery) day.

Some questions will need to be answered, like, what about daily newspapers that won’t get delivered to our residential customers on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday?

And, what about medicines that arrive in our office on Tues., Wed., and Thurs?

What do we do with this plan come holiday time?

These are good questions, and maybe someone out there who thinks that this plan might work, can figure it out.

Medicines are generally sent out while the recipient has plenty remaining and can therefore wait one day.

Newspapers, in some cases, can be sent to the recepients place of employment.

All four routes shall be covered the day after a holiday, and system mentioned above shall resume its pattern.

Whenever we do something like this, it’s important to keep the public informed, so that they understand that they are still valued, but we must do what we must do to stay alive.

There are a lot of great minds out there working for the USPS, and I know that someone has an idea that can help us save some money.

Please, no remarks about management, but something that you’ve been keeping to yourself and afraid to speak up. We’re runing out of money and this is everyone’s problem.

Deeman on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 12:36 am


This needs to be done nation wide because the public doesn’t know that mail is being delivered by an organization that lies about being diversified at all levels.

Concerned on Sat, 11th Apr 2009 12:03 pm


The United States Post Office has never been run like a business. The Operating Cheif of the USPS service needs a Master degree in Business. There are too many supervisors and far too many MDO’s that are collecting high salaries for performing inadequate job duties and the company is sinking fast. A serious reduction should be in Management and not craft. Craft employees are the one processing the mail and assuring that it is delivery. How can you give Managers and Supervisors alike a bonus when the company is loosing money?

Ruby Harrison on Tue, 21st Apr 2009 10:55 pm


I strongly agree with Oakland Postal Office. I work in the postal facility in Texas and have always thought during this time that the Postal Service is just blowing smoke about their finances. They certainly want to privitize the Postal Service and do away with all the Unions employees that have helped kept the Postal System service all the citzens of this great country with mail on a daily basis. No other business can do the job the Postal Service is doing. It would be too great of a job for any small industry to do. The people deserve to keep getting their mail on a daliy basis and have the assurance of privacy that has been maintained all of these years. There are too many senior citzens and disabled customers deepending on their mail to be delivered to trust any other agency.The Postal Service want their upper management employees to receive high salaries, but they do not care about the middle employees who are actually getting the mail out on a daily basis and doing all of the leg work. The citzens need to get involved and contact their city councils and stste representitives and congressmen.