Comments on: New Hampshire Workers Cheated Out of Wages: Congressman Hodes Spurs Investigation That Reveals Fraud

By: Stealing Retirement

Stealing Retirement — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:29:40 +0000

Altering clock rings/time cards is just the tip of the iceberg.The new game is setting up clerks and carriers with catch twenty twos, the old no win, dammed if you do dammed if you dont game . Either way you get a PDI PRE DISIPLINARY INTERVIEW LEADING TO FIRING AND LOSS OF BENEFITS. If we cant steal your time we will change the SOP standard operating procedure untill you screw up and then its all over .Add to this constant harrasment,ie fallowing and counting mail carriers steps,to short a pace PDI to many steps PDI not working through lunch to finish your deliveries PDI. You cant win.The clerks have it just as bad .Fallowed into the bathroom when you just plain cant wait any longer and being harrased about not finishing the sort first. Or not punching out first. not checking with your supervisor before punching out even if vou have a schedule. And if you put in for sick time its instantly denied.If you wash your hands on there time its verbal abuse.H1N1 my ass.Postmasters with there own jobs on the line have nothing to lose and will stop at nothing to clean house on anybody with 20 years plus.If they wont take retirement, then you know what to do.The unions do what they can to defend you, But by the time they work through one issue theres ten more all as bogus as the first.Its the stress that wears good people down. Being demeaned for working hard all your life and doing the best you can every day.In a small office what you dont do today is waiting the next so there isnt any slacking off. If NH congressman Hodes and the A G O really want to nip this in the bud. They should start interviewing USPS employees and get the whole story. It goes allot deeper than you might think.A good place to start is the Tilton office and work out from there.These are all voters we are talking about, they have a right to retire and keep there self respect.Lets not stop this investigation before we find out just how deeply the abuse goes. And finish the good work you have started for the people of NH.Lets have NH be one of the first to hold Postmasters and upper management responsible for ripping off there employees , our citizens. Then you will have earned my vote.

By: Mountain Boy

Mountain Boy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:33:07 +0000

E.A.S. are exempt employees, this means exempt from labor laws. That is why their hours can be taken away, they are not under the same set of rules craft employees are. Federal laws a being broken and the people changing the time need to be held accountable.

By: williaminverona

williaminverona — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:10 +0000

As a city letter carrier, it is a damn shame that management will likely get away with time fraud on these workers in NH. It is disgusting and embarassing that a Congress person has to get involved but necessary.

What will happen to these management people? Prosecuted no, terminated no but promoted or sent off to another office to do the same thing again. please do not send these morons to NJ.

By: getagrip

getagrip — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:50:07 +0000

Bill, you must have just come out of a supervisors womb, keep drinking the Koolaid!First of all I have never heard of street time referred to as road time, the correct term would be street time. Being such a postal blow hard you would know this is always made out to be “Expansion of Street Time” on your bogus list of charges in your discipline which good union reps such as I have thrown out like the weekly garbage. You also may want to introduce yourself to some contractual language such as ” A fair days work for a fair day’s pay”. I am not a machine but a real person who has various things that affect my daily street time. Examples would be; People asking for directions,customer inquiries,customer interaction, weather, getting gas for postal vehicle, supervisor inquiries, or any physical ailments I may be experiencing that day. Guess what Bill it’s people like me that could care less about your GPS because I’m giving you your fair day’s work for the fair day’s pay. At the end of the day I am the one that has a job to do, do you?

By: PayUp

PayUp — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:41:00 +0000

“If one carrier gets made an example of and gets fired because of their stealing of time, that would save even more $$$$.”

….and if one supervisor/manager gets made an example of and gets fired because of their stealing sick and/or annual leave, that would save even much more $$$$$

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:09:49 +0000

As long as the proper documentation is filed and signed off on, it is OK to take away OT and penalty OT, believe it or not. A 1017-A and 1017-B are designed just for this purpose. If time was taken away and not signed off by the employee, then it is flat out wrong. As far as MIARAP, the NALC makes sure, through the local stewards, that it “guides” employees on what MIARAP does so most carriers have learned to expand their road times anyway. THAT is stealing! When you can deliver a route in 5 hours, then it becomes 5.5 and then 6 within 9 months, without any new deliveries, that is stealing. Taking 45 minutes lunches, 30 minute breaks…that is stealing. Why do you think that GPS units are being put in vehicles now? With all the stealing of time (time = money), the postal service will make back the cost of the GPS units in a month. If one carrier gets made an example of and gets fired because of their stealing of time, that would save even more $$$$.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:47:49 +0000

The theft is there Sdosuper. First line managers are forced to move the mail with too few employees and a crack down on OT. Far too many of them join in with the bullying of the carriers and other craft employees with glee. The only way to maintain production with less employees is to over-burden the ones that are there. To further reduce the costs their hours are altered. This is nationwide and it is reprehensible. Carriers are forced to deliver too much mail with too few hours, ergo, they run their routes through their breaks and and lunch time. They are disciplined if they bring it back, and they are disciplined if they go overtime. Unofficial and unrecognized DOIS is used against the carriers.

The USPS is currently conducting a bloodless pogrom forcing out the older and limited duty employees as well. (NRP) Proportionately it is the most filed upon agency at the EEOC. It has become a rogue agency. I worked for them for 10 years as carrier & clerk, I was a Chief Steward and I am now an attorney. I have been dealing with the POD and USPS since 1967 and I have never seen it in a more brutal, self-destructive, and lawless spree.

Management should be ashamed; and each time a manager cashes a bonus check they are putting money stolen from the craft in their pocket. It is time for the first-line managers to stand with the crafts against the bean-counters and privateers who have come into control of the USPS by refusing to break the law any more. It postal employees can’t stand together against the law breakers then our beloved old Post Office is going to turn into just another private mail service kiosk at the shopping center.

By: Sdosuper

Sdosuper — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:30:57 +0000

First of all no one stole anything,, did they profit personally
This was all about 17A’S and B’S
properly documenting the time removed. Which was legit in most cases and the employee was notified.

By: PayUp

PayUp — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:31:36 +0000

“Nothing is ’supervisor’ or ‘craft’ ”

I beg to differ, supervisors/management are the only ones who have access to and are able to manipulate eLRA.

By: Very CONCERNED

Very CONCERNED — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:08:08 +0000

HOW MANY ROUTES IN THE MIARAP ADJUSTMENT WERE AFFECTED BY THE CLOCK RINGS MANIPULATIONS