Comments on: Postal Worker’s Letter to PRC: Don’t End Saturday Delivery – Save Money Elsewhere

By: Simonne Santillan

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By: dear charlie,

dear charlie, — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:59:57 +0000

maybe you don’t feel like you will be needed you have 27yrs, you won’t be needed retire! but the rest of us need our jobs and not everybody wants or can afford a computer. and if people don’t have a job how will they pay for the Internet? looks to me like they will have to go back to the U S MAIL a service the is guaranteed to every address in AMERICA!!!!! Do you remember that or are you on a gravy route? Anyway enjoy your retirement!! Your check is in the MAIL….

By: jim

jim — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:34:18 +0000

the postal service can’t admit that they made a major financial blunder when they raised pay levels i.e general supervisor eas17 to mdo eas24 along with many other high paying positions. ROLL EM BACK !! Also certain unions need to consider some type of limited consolidation to close some of the gray areas between crafts and promote greater flexibility and unity within the workforce.

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:48:12 +0000

I have been a city carrier for the post office for almost 27 years. Eliminating saturday delivery would save billions of dollars. In time computers will take more and more of our work. Yes we have more management than we need, but our work load will continue to be less. Eliminating a day of delivery seems like a good place to start. Again, being realistic, the computers will take most of the work we are presently doing and we will no longer be necessary.

By: la

la — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:40:22 +0000

The postal service is extremely top heavy! Rural Carriers don’t require supervision.
I can remember when we didn’t have a supervisor and things ran much smoother,
rurals would work with each other to schedule their leave. We know what needs to
be done and don’t need supervision to do the job. I think to turn the postal service
around you need to eliminate supervisors and rotate the post master to several
other post offices, and eliminate the “bonus system”.

By: Steven Ramos

Steven Ramos — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:55:31 +0000

The problem is not maintanence is custodians,most of them don’t want to do anything or even do the minimun amout of work possible.Techs have to service equipment and be around if anything malfunctions and this requires skill.The test is not easy,I passed it one time out of 5.Since I’m a carrier and in the top 100 in my district,I might as well stay…Management is the problem,most are unqualified,there are too many behind the scenes that are not needed,also there are too many “VPs” of stupid titles.I even suggested to a station manager why not have a rotating days off supervisor and down size the amount staffed in the offices.When I made that suggestion the manager said “I work hard” Right really I didnt know that but it’s false.most of the time is spent on the computer teleconfrences that make no sense,ignorant “area” managers which is a total waste of six figure salaries and not even qualified at all to make decesions on any level.Too much politics and personalities and no principals what so ever.I can go on and on but I’m done for now.

By: rob vota

rob vota — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:20:10 +0000

Hi my name is rob and I work in maintainence in phoenix and we are constantly cleaning.There are three of us there and we started to get the place cleaned and respectable but the building is huge and are routes are alot of work to actually keep the place clean,it was a disaster area before we got there.The one gal never did anything and the poor guy who was stuck couldn’t keep up with the work and place was nasty and the had the health inspectors come in,no accountability.We have folks who get paid for landscaping up the outside and also these other folks who just rinse down the vehicles and I am not sure why they get paid because neither of them do a good job or much.We could rake rocks and clean the vehicles.Why do we outsource?The redundancy of paperwork for the supervisors is ridiclous that is such a joke and number getting cooked yeper it happens I’m sure of that.Also the customer service of taking care of the customer is out the window with postal management don’t they get it to adquately staff the front window to take care of the customer or to give the carrier adqequate help on the street so they can get done and also to get better vehicles hey are always breaking down.Also why is that we are paying fed-ex our compettior to carry our mail,when I’m sure they hose us in the process.Which potter set up and the ceo used or still is a ex-postal employee.We could cut so many ways to make our company more efficent it is ridiclous with the amount of overhead in managment and one they do need training is people skills and to be better organized then you wouldn’t need so many.

By: Denver GMF

Denver GMF — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:32:49 +0000

What ever happened to team work? There don’t seem to be much of that in the P.O. always has been that way!! Management has always tried to turn craft against each other. It seems like since they put so many people out of work with this NRP crap all I see is Management doing craft work! Yet they will accommodate those who were NOT injured @ work and keep them in a job seems to me they have this backwards!! they should be sent home until they can do their job 100%….. Bill, everyone knows that most of us can be replaced by a casual so you need to get off of your high horse I don’t know why the clerks think they are all that. the truth is a casual can come in a do your job tomorrow and the mail handlers too! not the forklift or the tows.. But make no mistake they can’t come in and be in Maintenance they do have to go to school to learn how to fix and maintain our machines…OUR (bread and butter) so if you’re working and their NOT that means they are doing a GREAT JOB! that I can’t do.. ( as you can tell I’m not in maintenance ) but I will give credit where credit is due.. are you mad because you have to work? if you don’t like it there are plenty of people who would LOVE to have your job and NOT CRY ABOUT WHO IS WORKING AND WHO ISN’T, just thankful to have a JOB!! so if you want to insult everyone focus your energy on the real problem and lets figure out how to get a NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL!!!!!!!!!

By: El Soberano

El Soberano — Sun, 30 May 2010 02:54:22 +0000

The postal service does not need the supervisors or the postmaster. The clerks, mail carriers and the mail handlers can and are doing what it takes to keep the boat afloat, but the extraterrestrial beings (supv. & postmasters) are the ones that are passing out the instructions that are sinking the boat. Get rid of the supervisor and let the employees to row the boat and you’ll see that we will take it to a secure dock.

By: Pope1348

Pope1348 — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:05:32 +0000

Bill,
Although I agree with your thoughts on our top heavy Service, way too many chiefs created just to push paper. The supervisors especially over the clerks, carriers and mailhandlers are mostly idiots. Too lazy to work for a living, too stupid to have any sort of people skills. Now, having agreed with you on the non-bargaining unit problems let me say the maintenance mechanics and ET’s are way more trained and necesssary for the work they do than you, the clerks. I am a maintenance mechanic. Within one day I could perform your job, could you do mine? Not even close. Since we are being trueful, clerks are over paid for the work they perform. I was a clerk, I know the mind numbing, brainless, repetitive work you perform. We as maintenance employees have to go to school for months and in some cases years to obtain the specific knowledge needed to perform our jobs. We may not always be running back and forth, but that goes hand in hand with the good job we do to keep the machines running, and are ready at a moments notice to repair a machine if necessary. To repair any and all parts of that machine. And not just one machine, but many very different machines. To fix that machine you must have extensive knowledge and troubleshooting skills to determine the peoblem. The job is not even close to tossing a tray of mail on a jogger. So before you write without thinking, you are part of the problem. Not the biggest problem, yet you are one of thousands that are paid very, very well for the work you perform and the knowledge you have to have to perform that job. Why do you think a casual can come in off the street and perform your job within days, yet no maintenance mechanic position or higher maintenance position can ever be filled by a casual. If it wasn’t for maintenance the APWU couldn’t ever justify paying clerks $20+ an hour.