Johnboyjjb wrote:wearymicrobe wrote: Or you know congress could actually let them do things to make money and behave responsibly. I cannot see any way for any company to be economically viable with the crap they have to deal with.Makes you wonder how congress feels they are qualified to make financial decisions for the country when they've help run this part of the government into the ground.
you think that is bad.. look how congress is running DC into the ground
I work for the USPS.
We are not supposed to back up, ever. We can be immediately removed from duty (without pay) if they catch us. While I think it would be easier and cheaper than paying damage claims to install backup alarms on all the vehicles, management doesn't.
I'd love to see USPS go to three day delivery. You get your mail on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and somebody else gets theirs on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. One carrier working a regular week can do both routes. This would save a lot of payroll money.
Bulk mail (junk) needs to pay more. All those catalogs and flier type things are sent to you for a fraction of the price of a regular 1st class letter or magazine. That's not fair.
Plain and simple, everyone is overpaid for the amount of work that they do. The unions protect the bad people when they should be allowing them to be fired. There's a lot of horrible managers that rise to their highest level of incompetence. The USPS never fires or lays off anyone, they just get shuffled around.
Congress has so many idiotic rules for the USPS to follow. The big reason that they lose money is because they have to completely prefund the pensions for all employees. No other government agency or private company does this. It is assumed that this was done by a republican controlled vote so the USPS would lose enough money that the unions could be broken (since they vote democratic) and the entire operation privatized. USPS just skipped making a recent payment to the retirement fund in protest to the rule. Not sure of the effect.
Lots to tell you but it would bore you. It's not a happy place to work, at all.
In reply to jimbob_racing:
Wow, really glad to glean a bit of insight!
I agree with a reduced delivery week. I don't need mail every day. 3 days a week would be enough. I also think being able to drop a letter in a box and having it wind up on the other side of the country in about 3 days is totally worth the price of a stamp. I also wonder how much the postal service spends on brake pads/shoes every year.
jimbob_racing wrote: Lots to tell you but it would bore you. It's not a happy place to work, at all.
Aaand that's why I quit years ago. Too many people that rose to high levels both in management and in the union who made a career out of a combination of incompetence, greed, and sloth. It's common practice to do your route quickly, finish delivery at about noon, and sit in a bar or somewhere until it's punching out time. I knew something was amiss when I would do a route I did not know at all, and finish about 5 hours earlier than the regular daily carrier.
There are a lot of people that do not pull there own weight and rely on others to pick up the slack, and the system rewards this. We actually had carriers caught delivering mail nude, having sex in the back of the LLVs, and drinking on the job. None of them were fired, or even disciplined.
Perhaps worst of all is all the political BS you have to deal with on a daily basis. Soul-sucking to say the least.
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