Comments on: USPS made $76M profit in April (before $458M retiree health charge turned it into a loss)

By: ben franklin

ben franklin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:43:38 +0000

“UPS: We screw our employees and pass the savings on to our executives…i mean you!”

By: Norman Bates

Norman Bates — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:38:45 +0000

Outsider- I don’t disagree with you about the USPS IT mess, but i disagree on the union. First of all, consider that you, along with every other USPS employee, benefit financially from the wages the unions have negotiated. I was in management for most of my career, but I know full well that I made more than I would have otherwise because craft employees made as much as they did. As far as the union representing employees who should be fired- of course they do! That’s what we call due process. Every murderer and rapist who deserves to be executed gets to be defended by the best legal advice available. Someone being fired for misconduct fro the USPS certainly deserves to at least have an advocate to insure that the contract is followed. If there are loopholes in the contract, then shame on the USPS for signing the contract!

And as far as Allen is concerned- don’t tell me you really believe his nonsense about the USPS “storring” mail since 1994 for delivery now. Please? And just for the record, Allen has no “proof”- if he did he’d provide it.

By: Outsider coming In

Outsider coming In — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:26:08 +0000

@Allen – Some people already believe what they want to believe, and any amount of proof isn’t going to change that fact.

@Everyone – The post office has three main problems, and they are the future retiree health benefits, poor management, and the Union. No other company, public or private, has this crazy obligation. Also, the post office is constantly over paying it.

I’m in IT, and I see how poorly the IT operation is being run. You have companies contracted to build and support systems like Surface Visibility, PostalOne, and others that has no sense of following process. Mistakes are made constantly due to lack following process, and basic common sense. I was shocked how things were done at postal.

Last but not least, the UNION! Spending most of my professional career in the private sector, I realize the need for a good Union or for the government to enforce the labor laws. The main problem I have with the Union is that it protects worker’s that really needs to be let go. If you work in the plants, carry mail, or at a window you know what I’m talking about. You have people that know the contract like the back of their hands, and find ways to exploit it. It’s a given that management will try to get away with anything that it can, but you have people coming to work and doing nothing the entire time but socializing. Some people need the fear of losing their jobs in order for them to perform at work.

By: allen sanford's mother

allen sanford's mother — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:51:30 +0000

Allen- please, son, just take your medication, and then let me out of the attic!!

By: allen sanford

allen sanford — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:39:08 +0000

Mr.Bates, you sound like you wish to be one of Mr.Potter’s underlings.In 2006 Mr.Potter came to the Oakland Distribution Center to make sure that the overhead conveyors were removed to prepair for the recieving of new mail processing equionment.The overhead conveyors should have been removed in 1989 after the Loma Prieta earthquake.They were retained to store and hide the mail.In 2002 a man was nearly electrocuted while working on the equipment.The accident was covered up.I was the first Maintenance Craft Director for the A.P.W.U. in Oakland.The Union’s lack of influance and the adoption of the Hatch Act Amendments allowed the the post office to become the criminal enterprize that it is.My email is allensanford @ sbcglobal.net.I’ll send you a copy of the “Whistle-blower complaint with refrences to the documentation that will make you aware of what the reality of the situation is.If you are intrested in reality that is! The mail that I get that is addressed to my mother is real. I wouldn’t get that mail if it wasn’t being storred like it was being stored in Oakland.I was involved, that’s where I get this “stuff”.Have you ever been involved in anything?

By: stephen ct

stephen ct — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:56:12 +0000

as the post office keeps laying on more layers of fat at the top, this house will eventually fall like a house made out of a deck of cards

By: Norman Bates

Norman Bates — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:08:28 +0000

Allen- you forgot to mention Potter’s involvement with 9/11, the balloon boy hoax, and the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Seriously- where do you come up with this stuff? Don’t you think the issues are interesting enough without having to make stuff up? That last part about your mother still getting mail was just plain creepy. I hate to have to ask you this, but you DID report her death, didn’t you? Are we going to read about someone making a shocking discovery in your freezer??

By: allen sanford

allen sanford — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:10:43 +0000

Mark, the post office is a tax exempt monopoly it does not purchase the equipment that is used to process the mail. The equipment is provided to the post office and modified on a tax free lease. The independent mail processor is given the same lease arrangement by the post office. The independent mail processors were created by the post office in anticapation of the transfer of the mail processing business to these concerns after all of the postal workers are eliminated. Mr.Potter and the gang will be in line for big kickbacks when the deal is done. Mail processing contracts with independent mail processors run for years. The mail is storred indefinitly. I still get mail addressed to my mother who died in 1994.The next letter you get that is prepaid mail, look for a date on it.

By: pat

pat — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:26:04 +0000

we are in an age where we don’t need a post master for every office, if you cut them and have one for every 5 offices that would save the p.o millions

By: jon

jon — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:54:06 +0000

Look at the grievance awards- 87 million. For those of you that don’t know, thats our great managers costing the PO money by not following the contract. Take it out of their paychecks when they disobey the contract that the USPS also signed off on.