Marketers critical of ‘colossal’ USPS booth at DMA show
Seen on Postcom.org:
Almost every catalog marketer at the [DMA06 San Francisco] show mentioned, with more than a little disdain, the *colossal* U.S. Postal Service booth. Instead of impressing them with their racing simulator, doubtful actors and postal service totes, marketers were annoyed at the extravagance in light of rate increases that suck more of their budget.
One marketer remarked that she would like to send the postal service a box of promotional pieces instead of payment for one of her mailings.
Wrap-up Notes From DMA06: Attendees’ Top 3 Pain Points
MarketingSherpa.com
October 23rd, 2006 08:55
As a Letter Carrier for the Post Office for 20 years I see the same waste and over extravagantze by upper management all the time. Upper management is arrogant beyond belief. You would not believe how much money they waste on themselves and things they “deem’ to be important, but are really only import to themselves.
In my area alone they just paid a 56 million dollar settlement for back wages for CONTINUALLY violating a simple contract requirement that they are ALL aware of but refuse to comply with.
Yet they constantly push the craft employees for productivity gains, understaff offices which forces us to work 60 hours a week, 6 days a week, discipline those who call in sick, harrass those who use Family Medical Leave, micro-manage Letter Carriers every move in the office and the street with computer print outs and harrass them for not going fast enough.
An example of upper managements arrogance was a few years ago somebody blew the whistle on the fact that those at USPS Headquaters in Washington D.C. were using a goverment vehicle for tranportation to and from work, and they were not signing out or in, in the logbook for the use of the vehicles. This is a violation of Federal Law. Using a government vehicle for private use. Lower level managers are disciplined or fired for this same offense. So what happened? NOTHING! Just an addmission that this was happening and the abuser’s would be instructed not to use the vehicles and required to sign the logbook when they do. Duh!
The waste and abuse just continue without abatement. In all fairness, this stuff goes on in just about ALL large corporations. As recently shown with the convictions of Wall Street guys for stealing, fraud and embezzelment.
It just makes you sick that they present themselves as this bastion of good when really they are just a bunch of crooks beneath the veneer.