Comments on: PRC schedules hearing on USPS plans to close stations and branches

By: Mailhandlerbustshisass

Mailhandlerbustshisass — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:07:09 +0000

USPS MANAGER
Let me tell you this…
When people are seeing their managers talking on cellphones, and not doing their jobs. Well you really have no say. I believe in working hard everyday. A sharp cut in management will make the Post Office be competitive. U could relate, if you understood. I dont know if you are upper management, or, low level. but be certain. WE DONT NEED 4 SUPS FOR 12 EMPLOYEES!! Especially if you are gonna talk about the last casual you were interested in. OPPS!!! thats old school!!!
SO I will say ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE NEXT HOOOORE YOU STAND UP!!! SLAM!!!

By: E. Hatfield

E. Hatfield — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:18:24 +0000

This is really a very big mistake, a lot of people lost jobs, I’m sure many lost internet and need to use postage to mail letters or pay their bills to keep their electricity or pay their mortage, some how, some may have lost their means of transportation, so if they are riding their bike or walking to a nearby post office, they are very lucky. Closing the branches and stations will really impact hard on the customers haven’t they thought of that! This will really cause a national crisis!

By: Debra B

Debra B — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:43:36 +0000

As a retail associate, I believe that the company needs to eliminate, or put on hiatus, these expensive programs, i.e. mystery shopper. Although I appreciate the importance of airline security (especially when flying during vacation); the scoring and unreasonable demands by management to improve scores to justify THEIR performance rating is a thing of the past. A dinosaur. I wish Congress would examine this component of expenses that USPS management deems uncondinationally necessary…..c’mon. Our postal service performed well before the Bush-era imposed fear of “tur-ists”, and we can do so again without the added expense of funding an independent company to monitor our performance. We may not need to close any branches or curtail to 5 day delivery if some of the “fat” could be cut. We (and Congress) should be asking for fiscal accountablity & transparency…..”what exactly does USPS pay for the Mystery Shopper Program?”

By: Lastmanout

Lastmanout — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:39:48 +0000

Im not willing to take a pay cut, skilled or unskilled labor, call it what you will. Only half of the people I came in with made it to the present day. Craft employees and their unions are not the problem. Do we really need a supervisor for every six employees? I mean come on! That is the ratio I deal with every day. And now to justify their jobs they are driving around trying to act like they are doing something. Burning up company gas, putting wear and tear on USPS vehicles to drive behind me and observe me walk up and down stairs for an hour, and then off they go to meet the other four for an hour lunch on company time and maybe even a thirty minute shopping stop and then its off to the tanning bed. they dont even try to conceal it anymore. And yet, all I hear is how the over paid carriers are bringing down the USPS! BULL! That ratio I mentioned before does not even include all the cozy administration jobs higher than station level. Delivering the mail is our primary function and yet only 200,000 out of 650,000 carry mail! I look around and the only positions I see being cut are those assigned to carriers. At this pace maybe I can get my very own supervisor. Everyday I go on a ten to twelve hour hike, stopping only for a thirty minute lunch and a couple of ten minute breathers. I mean HOW MUCH MORE SHOULD I BE ASKED TO GIVE?

By: Education

Education — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:05:16 +0000

When there are post offices and stations and branches within 1-5 miles of each other, that is a little much. Times are tough and most people who own a business would never operate the way the Post Office is mandated and continually lose money day after day. Collective bargaining has not been the answer since labor costs are well over 75% of the budget. The mentality of some postal workers is something they should be ashamed of. They just want to work at their pace, take days off when they want and who cares how and when the mail gets delivered. The Postal service needs to be able to address these issues in all offices or they will continue to fail, even if they cut the 50% of management that some say is the demise of the service. What about cutting all jobs by 50%, establishing standards of work and eliminating all the sweet heart deals the unions had acquired in many offices. Maybe expect people to give a solid days work for a solid days pay. Postal Workers are paid very well for what they do!!!!

By: seenoevil

seenoevil — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:13:02 +0000

http://blog.uspsoig.gov/?p=1952

submit ideas to save the usps money or help generate revenue

By: Bernardo

Bernardo — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:49:13 +0000

Good 4 all of u guys, I am willing to take a pay cut of 20% in order to save same of my coworkers positions, I already told the union people to put the offer on the table, what about you guys, R U with me? god bless you

By: Roy D.

Roy D. — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:20:46 +0000

Tired of it. District managers coming down next week to harass us because now we are only meeting DOIS projections. We told them we did not recognize DOIS the last couple of years. So when OUR mail volume started going up and DOIS showed overtime everyday we obliged them and started meeting DOIS. Now all of a sudden DOIS figures are wrong and we have to work to a better standard than DOIS.Will never be able to satisfy the SOB’s. Have one carrier position open for 6 months. District manager says hiring freeze. Then in the next breath asks “does anybody want the supervisor job.”Have 2 postmasters now and 1 204B to manage 6 city routes. Talk about a fleecing of the PO.Interim Route Adjustment is a joke too. We eliminated one route with it back in January and was able to keep all remaining routes this last period. But that irked them so much up at District that they are now doing this harassment next week to make us save them time so we will have to add to the routes this next interim route adjustment. Also our union president has been standing up to them filing grievances on all their violations and now they are trying to frame him on some trumped up charges.Said they are going to make an example out of someone. Drive around until they find someone with a door open or seatbelt unfastened and fire them on the spot. Talk about a bunch of ungrateful SOB’s.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:23:27 +0000

How can upper management blame unions for the problems faced? Did not the Postmaster General sign off on each and every CBA under the last contracts, and the ones before that? So if you are a manager, and can’t get your job done, blame your boss, or yourself for your shortcomings, not the low level employees.

By: moe

moe — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:29:17 +0000

GPS will get rid of slugs, oh but union will save them or they won’t be able to collect dues