Comments on: Six districts to close, 1,400 supervisor jobs cut

By: bigmike

bigmike — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:55:15 +0000

I see two agency goals; one, the agency wants a younger, more flexible, fitter, fungible, workforce of lower paid widgets; which explains the illegal NRP campaign to purge the agency of injured on duty employees with medical restrictions; and or,

two, the more likely, Old Man Potter, the bean-counters and privateers are trying to drive the old P.O. into oblivion and the hands of private enterprise.

So you can talk amongst yourselves; point fingers; throw blame around; give big smooches to big bottoms… or you can act like a workforce of men and women, conjure up some critical thought and some spine, lock-arms and fight to save the agency and your jobs.

NRP is going down. The FLSA violations are going to be corrected too. So, stop looking for holidays to give away and stop running through your lunches and breaks; participate in your associations and unions. File complaints and appeals… use the law to save your jobs and the Post Office… either that or begin looking for a job with Fed Ex or UPS.

Good Luck!

By: 204b

204b — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:20:36 +0000

I am a mailhandler/204b. This week I worked 6 days, and it will be 8 more days until I get another day off. I supervise mailhandlers and clerks on the dock on T3. Most of these employees take 30 minute or longer breaks, and 45 minute or longer lunches. If they don’t like what I tell them, they holler for a union steward. Most of them have an opinion about how I should do my job, but none of them are willing to step up to get into a position to implement those ideas. If you have never supervised at the post office then you have no idea what you are talking about! I leave these people alone because I know what they go through on a daily basis, but all I get is crap attitudes and smart remarks. Too much management? Yeah. Too much micro-managing? Absolutely. But too many people who are accustomed to long breaks and lunches, standing around when there are things to do, thinking that if it rolls then a tow motor or fork lift should move it. We need to realize that we are the lucky ones who still have good paying jobs. It’s time to suck it up and start going the extra mile. And if I am put back into craft next week, I will be practicing what I preach. I try to be an employee that I would want to hire if I were the business owner. And since I need a job to retire from, I intend to do my best to see that the Postal Service lasts for the next 20 years. If you don’t want to be job hunting in these times, I suggest you do the same. The postal service isn’t perfect, but it pays my bills!

By: Art Crawford

Art Crawford — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:00:28 +0000

The Atlanta District spent over $250,000 to inform window clerks to ask every customer to rent a PO Box, even if the customer already had a PO Box. On a daily basis we spend several hours taking priority mail with delivery confirmation to the correct city. Sometimes spending 5 man hours a day to get one letter delivered. The PO worries only about making the numbers look good even if the cost to the PO is excessive. Management needs to listen to the workers and not to the decisions made by people who have never worked in processing or delivering mail.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:19:40 +0000

Why not eliminate supervisors in each office. Make supervisors work six days a week until this economic crisis passes. If these managers would treat thier postal job like they owned the business then we could trim a lot of fat off the government feeding trough. There are only 12 shifts a week yet we see 3-4 supervisors or 3 supervisors and a 204b standing around pushing papers.

Also have you ever seen a postmaster work on Saturday? Not in my area. Again if the managers were truly concerned they would work six days a week thus eliminating a supervisor.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:32:54 +0000

The participation rate on USPS employee opinion surveys is less then 50 percent, and a BONUS is received to management, for every completed form, always trying in some way to get employees to fill them out on the clock some perhaps a few months later again. Throw this in as a terrible waste of money that rewards poor miserable performance to the same people over and over again, and you see it’s just like all the taxpayer bonus bailouts that need to be stopped or taxed 90 percent. thank you

By: WILBUR517

WILBUR517 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:29:42 +0000

It’s about time they trimmed the dead weight. Imagine someone chooch in Ct. Calling Portland, Me. to tell mgt that a carrier didn’t scan a bar code in a mail box. way WAY toomany layers of managment. Glad to see them go. Maybe they will have to WORK at the USPS now. Good luck suckers

By: TG

TG — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:36:10 +0000

Are the TE’s going to make it?

By: curly

curly — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:56:06 +0000

i work in a l+dc in so. jersey. we have 40 204b’s on tour 3 and 3 on tour 2 and most of them are mailhandlers. we are short mailhandlers in the plant. why not save money by putting them back to craft. the 2o4bs are freinds of supervision. so i doubt that will ever happen

By: Robert Derasmo

Robert Derasmo — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:36:49 +0000

I think we are all overlooking one very important point. When you lose your job, it doesn’t matter who did or didn’t do what to who when where or why because you are unemployed! Do yourself and everyone else a favor and preserve your job by maintaining your integrity,and performing your job to the best of your ability. In this sad day that we are in, the negativity will further promote elimination of jobs and service by unconscienable people who thrive on just that type of situation. Stand out and you may be left standing!

By: Jane Doe SDO

Jane Doe SDO — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:17:51 +0000

This is just the start of a total reorganization process. If there are still employees working for the postal service who aren’t retiring in the next three yrs or so that think that they wont be effected think again. There are just as many good people in management as there are in the craft. I have been both and appreciated and despised both. I know its time for changes but, cheering just because management is taking the hit this time is immature to say the least. Ever hear of the saying “When my neighbor loses his job its a recession and when I lost mine it became a depression”…..Start tightening up and lose the old union mentatlities and be happy we all have jobs right now.