Comments on: USPS lost $658 million in February

By: JB

JB — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:27:03 +0000

The fact of the matter is that the craft employees are grossly over paid and the unions have negotiated contracts with no work standards. When we pay custodians $25 an hour and when you tell them to do their jobs, the first thing they do is ask to see a steward and claim they are being harrassed. Carriers dissappear on the street and brag about it. Mail handler cycle the plants on mules acting like they are going someplace to retrieve mail. Clerks sneak away from their machines for smoke breaks, etc. The unions strongly encourage these acts and promote them under the views it will increase jobs and overtime opportunities.

The Postal Service in a terrible mess and it is due to union demands. Unions have destroyed our public education system and are about to take down the Usps.

By: PostalJen

PostalJen — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:33:10 +0000

I agree. I started with no intention of joining the union. I am a good worker and I thought I wasn’t going to waste the money on a service I didn’t need. Boy was I wrong! Management found every way possible to mess with the new PTFs. I just hope someday there will be accountability for both bad managers and bad workers. 1 bad carrier or clerk can change public sentiment against us. Most of management is a joke. Those that do try to do a good job usually get cut off at the knees by the higher ups. Management gets caught committing crimes and are moved around at the same pay – workers get arrested. They wonder why it’s and us against them mentality.

By: JustCarryinOn

JustCarryinOn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:35:28 +0000

Smalltownworker–Problem with eliminating the union—-there are 2 lazy lying managers for every milker or slacker carrier. I had no involvement with our union for the first 10 years of my career. I got an expensive lesson on the dangers of not knowing your contract. Our former PM lied and cheated and stole to create a full time position for his most special friend. USPS pays for the benefits and we supplement the salary. Without the union, carriers would have no protection from managers who lie, cheat, or abuse carriers. Anyone else out there taken a “beating” for making a manager “unhappy”?

By: JustCarryinOn

JustCarryinOn — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:23:58 +0000

Dear Postmaster–I spent many years earning my full time position as a carrier I used to work sick –work over evaluation–change days off etc…to accomodate our last lazy-lying PM. Our evaluated hours have been cut to the bone.I am thankful for my pay and benefits. I earn my pay while my PM talks on the phone–or yucks it up with the underworked/overpaid clerk. Teamwork would be great—-if we had a team leader. Management likes to complain about the overpaid–lazy carriers—but you won’t find any of them willing to go out in the snow–rain–or heat to “earn” their keep. BTY–if you do work 9 hours a day—you are the exception–

By: NALC Brother

NALC Brother — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:20:26 +0000

Spare me your pity, ICareAboutUSPS … What work does a postmaster actually do? Because my postmaster does her grocery shopping on work days. Is this the level of responsibility that you speak about. I’m not one sided – I just see the misuse and abuse of government power, in the form of government waste … I’m sure that there are hard-working postmasters out there – I don’t mean to generalize … But I think that the majority of those who get this position are unqualified to flip burgers in a restaurant, let alone run a business, and that in the ‘real’ non-postal world, they would be Walgreens workers, not postmasters … Me, I have no illussion that my job is different from a clerks job, but then again, I haven’t been insulated from the real world for twenty-plus years in the postal service … I know what legitamate industries demand from their management and workers … Without a master’s degree, you wouldn’t be able to make what postal managers make … Postmasters should count their blessings that they have a job with the Postal Service, insead of constantly devaluing the job that letter carriers do on a daily basis

By: ICareAboutUSPS

ICareAboutUSPS — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:56:47 +0000

Listening to the rants on this page are no different than other sites. Unfortunatly, it speaks volumes about the Postal service.

NALCBrother, I really feel sorry for you. Your viewpoints are so one sided, and you are open to nothing. You can’t even get it through your head that a Postmaster has the right, as well as responsibility to do this work.

Compare an EAS employee to a Walgrens manager??

Really??

I suppose you would be willing to work for Walgrens clerk dollars…

IMHO here is the blueprint for the USPS’s future.

Each employee will be a mailhandler 2 hrs a day, a clerk 2 hrs a day and then a carrier for 4 hrs a day…

There is not enough work for all of us…

We will have to deal with it….

By: davids

davids — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:38:22 +0000

Now is the time to eliminate saturday don’t you think it’s a good starting point..Well what’s another 600 million in aplril..I guess this company can afford it.. Wow wonder what a real company would do here..What a joke this place is..It’s embarrasing

By: smalltownworker

smalltownworker — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:46:52 +0000

i have been in the postal service for 12 years in 3 different cities…have done all jobs including 204 b….1 solution would solve a lot of problems…..get rid of unions…it creates lazy workers who ARE NOT afraid to get in trouble or lose their job…there is nothing wrong with facing discipline for not performing.having a union handcuffs supervisors from getting rid of bad workers…i bet the auto workers are the same way…the UAW is too strong…poor production for the good pay = the company losing money over time…i said this would happen 10 years ago to the post office…..here we are…

By: Derek Whetsel

Derek Whetsel — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:43:25 +0000

its good to have a forum to be able to sit and vent.
i completely understand each unique angle and point of view.
personally i am a union mail processing clerk in the second largest mpo in my state.
as i have no bid jiob i am unnassigned reg.
all bitching aside, i have never seen as many people on every tour in each craft working almost seemlessly and selflessly to get the mail out. its a cross between an ant farm and a fine swiss watch. amazing to behold.
my hats off to the handlers clerks 204b’s and even mdo’s.
the efficiency levels seem to increase even as anxiety levels climb by the day.
hard pressed to find a more thorough dilligent and generous bunch than MPO 46802

By: gottaluvmgmt

gottaluvmgmt — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:42:20 +0000

NALC Bro, Huh? I used to 204B off and on for 5 years, and OIC. But all in all, Ive been a city carrier for 20 years. Casual, TE, PTF, Reg. And yes I’m in the union. I’m not understanding your perception. I wasn’t saying that we need more mgrs. Only more who know HOW to manage and treat people with dignity and respect.