Comments on: PMG briefs employee organizations on financial situation

By: LOVEmyJOB

LOVEmyJOB — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:50:18 +0000

I love my job and my customers. I hate all the BS about how poor the P.O. is. If our mail volume keeps dropping no one will have a job. Without mail Jack you will have to find another job. I suggest start at the top of the highes paying jobs and start thinning out all these bs jobs. What are you paying a team to check our cases for mail when there a 2 or 3 sup & a P.M.? Why are we worring about the .42 cent letter when prority mail is late and expess cannot be del on time because of a stupid contrator does not give a damn if it gets there or to supid to know what to do. Jack you really need to look in to all the things us employees are saying. Forget your numbers on paper because they aint working.

By: loew

loew — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:56:44 +0000

I would like to offer my common sense approach to the usps, I think that is the main ingredient missing in most of the decisions that are made now days.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:36:46 +0000

Len: They should also close the Westport Station since Mr. Mahoney and his band of incompetent morons can’t get anything right. What a mess. That alone would save several hundreds, and make the customers happy that won’t have to put up with rude clerks, and poor delivery service.

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:49:29 +0000

Have I ever told you this job sucks.? After 35 1/2 years carrying mail this is my standard question in my office. No I don’t have a bad attitude. This is just my way of poking fun and finding humor in an other wise unpleasant environment. My greatest satisfaction as a carrier has always been giving the customers what they deserve, good service. No one can beat that into me no matter how manny L. O. W. ’s you want to give me. It is something that comes from within and I think most carriers would agree and strive to do the same. The problem I have with the present PO is that service has been thrown out the window. Yes we all hear about external this and exteral that, but that’s just statistics and statistics don’t mean anything if management has to fudge on everything just to make the numbers. That just makes the statistics a bunch of lies to make upper management feel good and those of us that have to suffer the bull crap solutions in the field to meet these statistics frustrated. For instance, fitst class overnight mail stats were too low. So the solution was decided to inform all carriers that no first class missorts on your route could be brought back from the street. We must now deliver all these errors so that when we come back to the station we only have in station and out of station non deliveris but all first deliverirs on your route are100 % delivered. How wonderful, our stats are looking great. But since no one is resolving the problem at the DPS operation, this band aid approach does nothing to resolve the missort problem. What it really does is frustrate the very people who carry this entire outfit on our backs everyday. Gas is killing the postal budget at present, but in my office as we drive all aroud our districts on our merry way we are improving those dam stats. Don’t mind the fact we are putting extra wear and tear on our postal vehicles. Did I mention the LOW we are threatened with if we don’t get done on time as we do this before we head out to do our pivots. Oh bye the way, did I remember to hit all my MSP scans and delivery confirmation scans. Oh well, another LOW. But boss my pivot was not ready when I left the office and I had to go back to the station to pick it up. Did I mention I left the station late because the clerks couldn’t get all that light mailed filed up because you reduced their compliment. And the rated mail wasn’t ready on time and the clerks couldn’t get all the parcels scanned on time, and I know , a L.O.W. . Well I have to run now because a team of clip boards are coming to the station to see if in my hurry I missed a bulk piece of mail when I pulled down or if they found some rubber bands on the floor of my truck last night when I was hurrying to get off the clock before I get a LOW. Oh yeah, I forgot, all forty carriers have go through their DPS mail everyday, all together before morning break for ten minutes to make sure all trays are ours and to riffle through the mail to pick out missorts. Of course if we don’t pay attention we run into our break because management doesn’t believe in calling out break, just break over. The point is, while carriers are running all over the place to do all this idiotic stuff, the customers get less and less service because the carrier has less and less time to give them service. I hear it all the time now when I have had a day or two off. The carrier that replaced you was rude, he wouldn’t stop and anwser my question and so on and so on. Give it a while and the high marks the public gives the PO in comparrison to other government agencies is going to drop dramaticly because the carrier is, and always was, and always will be the PO’s best example of service. The proof is in the pudding and unfortunely we aren’t making the pudding. By the way, Have I ever told you this job sucks?

By: sam

sam — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:45:43 +0000

My supervisor tell us need support the postal service .
But the supervisor tell us ,he was no longer using any stamp to send bills , he only use EPAY now . all the stupidvisor should not the postal service .

By: Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:11:14 +0000

Don’t blame it on the Union’s for filing grievances. Management has been taking a blood bath on C.I.L.O. cases for years. Maybe if Potter started holding them accoutable for their actions then maybe you would see a change.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:01:34 +0000

Face it, the PO is a business that has a lot of overhead and fixed costs. When fuel goes up 40% within a given year, it is going to hurt (penny increase in retail fuel cost equals to $8 mil. in overall increase to the PO). We have big problems coming down the pike if the PO can’t address this issue.

By: James Page

James Page — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:04:53 +0000

STOP raising rates and KILLING mail volumes! As a life long Direct Mailer I can honestly say after every postal increase we have lost mail volume, as postage prices have increased mail volumes have shrunk. Our customers cut budgets and find other ways to advertise and use internet to send invoices and related communications. The decrease in Mail volumes is larger in dollars then the increase in postal revenue. The catalog business alone is down well over 50% nationwide after the USPS raised FLAT mail rates 100% last year. What good was that? Double the rate , lose over half the volume, the USPS needs to STOP raising rates on Automated , prebarcoded , drop ship mail, Standard rate AND First Class. They are killing not only the USPS they are hurting the printing, direct mail and catalog busineses at same time. It is out of control. Mark my words “emergency rate increase” is in the works and it WILL hurt mail volumes even more. Millions of American jobs and livliehoods are at stake here. Stop the rate increases!

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:36:43 +0000

Just think if the Democrats go through with the “do not mail”… Then all junk mail and direct mail will go away and there will really be a problem. I hate junk mail just like everyone else but we all know that this direct mail supports the postal system. Just like the “do not call” people are going to continue loosing jobs. I am afraid that the postal system is next.

By: Cliff Claven

Cliff Claven — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:25:39 +0000

Hey, you got you $$ payraise and took it without any guilt-knowing the numbers for the operation was weak to poor!

They the (P.O.) is setting the ground work for a bail-out I can read between the lines already!

Sorry Jack, No more money to go around!