Comments on: Mailers Council reacts to USPS deficit projection, 5-day delivery proposal

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:29:02 +0000

Lets also remove all the Light duties who are abusing the system.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:40:40 +0000

As an ET in a P&DC I see limited duty people on nights why they can patch up on tour 2 saving the night differential. Maybe we the large facilities that re run reject mail on sundays could go dark on Sunday. Also how about the management people that got letters in phase one getting new job titles. If we are going to lean up it should be across the board.

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:20:54 +0000

5 days is a waste of time if they had any sence whatsoever they would do away with city carrier time and have them get paid like a rural route does. it would save billions. and paying some one on double time due to lack of employees as it is just to go out and deliver a 44 cent letter is just plain dumb. that letter cost 60 bucks just to get there. they need to also do away with managment bonuses. the rich get richer and the poor poorer. sad world. not even to mention retirees pensions.

By: elkhunter

elkhunter — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:13:09 +0000

buy out all civil services go to 5 days and everthing will be all right its all about the MONEY

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:02:52 +0000

Are you people crazy? Do you know how many carriers are going to be out of a job. If t-6 positions are no longer needed, then what are they going to do with all of these unassigned regulars? Lay them off!

By: Tommy2

Tommy2 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:10:59 +0000

With the economy in the state it is in and with gas prices and our need for middle east oil so high. I think it is time for the Post Office to look at delivering mail three days a week. ( Monday, Wednesday and Friday and these days could be 12 hour work days) The benefits of this would be enormous, half the gas, wear and tear on vehicles and overtime, just to name the obvious. Also
with more time off ( weekends for delivers ) it might cut down on the number of workers going postal. If someone gets so much mail that every other day would be to much for their box, then let them get a bigger box. Special delivery could still go out every day and around heavy times of the year, it could go back to six days a week.

By: jack mccarthy

jack mccarthy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:41:55 +0000

On five day delivery.Do it now.Technology has simply caught up to USPS like autos caught up to buggy whip makers.Simply not needed in this day and age.The other interesting comment I hear is that the USPS is self sustaining and gets no subsidy from the Government.Question is who pays for a $6,000,000,000 loss that ocurred in 2009?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:49:23 +0000

With 31 years with the postal service as a letter carrier, I never thought I would say this, but here goes. Go to evaluated routes with a 5 day work week. Evaluate routes every 5 years or when a route is reassigned. This would allow us to ditch our bean counters and micro managers. I don’t need to be supervised. I do my route everyday all by my lonesome. Stop counting every peace of mail like it matters. It is simple. Mail comes in, mail goes out. You would only need a supervisor to reschedule for sick calls an vacations. You would still have to pivot but we know that has always been the plan anyway. I’m sorry about the TE’s. They most likely will have to go. Unfortunately, the term “Transitional Employee” was created for the transiton of the post office and not for the employee to transitioned into the full time work force. When I here coments like ” I can do a route in 3 hours” or ” I don’t take a lunch or breaks”, I loose all sympathy for the preservation of their jobs. Any one can work fast, badly. Why do my customers always know when I’m off.That should be the tell all. I want to have a professional work force again. Wear the uniform as it should be worn and install confidence in the public as it was in the past.

By: danny

danny — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:13:25 +0000

Potter takes a huge chunk of change out of the USPS budget for what? The USPS has been in the red almost since he took over. How much would he get if he actually turned the USPS around? They say he does well at failing. Heck I will only deliver half of my route and lose the other half of the mail and then wont I have done as well as Potter? Why don’t I get a bonus is it because I do my job correctly or because Im fat?

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:22:37 +0000

Here it is in a nutshell- The people that “have never delivered mail” (the never done’s) and the people that “couldn’t do the job of delivering the mail” (the couldn’t do’s) are telling the people thay have been delivering the mail for the last 20 to 30 years how to do their job. Our Rural supervisor who subs for our city delivery supervisor has never delivered mail. Our city delivery supervisor started out as a carrier but couldn’t do the job, in fact she broke down on the street and started crying because she couldn’t do the job. They didn’t fire her they promoted her to managment.
Sure am glad we spent all those BILLIONS on DPS and FLAT SORTING machines, To bad there isn’t anything to sort. Wish we had all those Billions back, we wouldn’t be 7 billion in the red.
Potter doesn’t seem to be relevent anymore. He has plunged our Postal Service into a sea of red ink, his billion dollar machines stand at the ready to sort mail that never showed up. He didn’t turn down his $180,000 bonus though. I wonder what he has in mind for his Platinum Parachute, hopefully his days are numbered. President Obama do your job, replace Potter with someone that will value people instead of machines.