Comments on: USPS In California To Post Combined City Carrier-Clerk Duty Assignment?

By: dawn

dawn — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:37:14 +0000

I have been here and done this and been re-injured because of it!

By: dawn

dawn — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:36:31 +0000

Well well well, now they want to OFFICIALLY COMBINE THE TWO. When all along it’s been done for decades!

By: Actual Letter carrier

Actual Letter carrier — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:48:38 +0000

Quote: “These employees need to understand that -as a part of the whole USPS operation- we are ALL IN THIS TOGETHER,”

I’ll remember that when I’m out in the snow/rain/heat working my ass off while the clerks hide out in the corner of our GMF for 6 of their 8 hours doing nothing but reading the mail and shooting the breeze.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:12:35 +0000

Do the USPS Union leaders see that they need to dispose of craft lines? Do they see how it would benefit all postal workers? Craft wars need to end. The time has come to stop the fight over whos work is whos and fight for wages, hours and working conditions. This should be done as one Postal Union.

By: Mailman

Mailman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:26:27 +0000

Why is it when a carrier gets injured their light/limited duty assignment is: clerk work ?

By: T-Mart

T-Mart — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:31:50 +0000

Gray the delineation between craft functions, in fact eventually eliminate them altogether. All crafts should just be postal employees, covered by one union. It would do away with the bickering, grievances, and nonsense payouts. Heck, it might just reduce the amount of managers. Let’s get this done. Under such a system, we can thrive and survive. C’mon people. Drop the greed and pettiness for the good of the whole.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:53:46 +0000

I’ve worked with many carriers who feel that “clerk work” is beneath them -even one or two who were clerks before they moved to the street. When our new in-office sorts were introduced a couple of years ago, they agitated like 1930′s dockworkers and fought the change tooth-and-nail complaining, “I’m NOT a mailhandler!” This type of atittude was/is not only childish but also foolhardy.

These employees need to understand that -as a part of the whole USPS operation- we are ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, and if we’re going to thrive as an agency we’d better start to pull together on one rope instead of unravelling the end that’s handed to us. And: beyond that: consider how difficult it would be to find another job in today’s market that pays our bills as well as the ones we have.

By: DHud55

DHud55 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:58:14 +0000

Why not combine craft and manager duties. Then get rid of the managers.

By: mh

mh — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:51:05 +0000

Bullshit its mh work

By: JC

JC — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:05:07 +0000

Its the right thing to do in todays environment, especially in the small offices. What is ludicrious is having multiple Postal unions…time to abolish the “crafts” and allow cross-craft assignments, cross-craft bidding, etc.

Merge the unions & have one big Postal union represent all craft employees & end the territorial bickering already