FARGO, ND. (Valley News Live): Retailers are looking for seasonal help. In this case, it involves the busiest time of the year, when it comes to mailing things.
The U.S. Postal Service needs more people to be sure they can get your packages from point A to B.
USPS plans to hire 35,000- 40,000 seasonal workers for holidays
The parking lot at Prairiewood post office is full of cars of employees but they are looking to add to it with a number of positions for seasonal help.
But what happens if they can fulfill their seasonal help, will it mean delays in mailing?
Source: USPS seeking seasonal employees but what happens if positions go unfilled?
Management would be able to fill all the jobs if they would only treat the employees with respect! But we know that will never happen. The workers are to know their place, work for as little as possible, and lack self respect. And enjoy being treated like dirt!
I’m a retiree working my second holiday season. Last year wasn’t too bad getting thru red tape to get hired, this year was a nightmare. Postal IT is truly the worse. I wonder how many got frustrated and said screw it. The best thing it reminds how great it is to be retired and not having to put up with this crap on a daily basis.
Simple. Mail service will decline. It will take too long to get your 1st class mail, packages, and medicine. In other words, more of the same shit because management plays budget games and is so far removed from the work force once you are at the District and Area level, not to mention customers, they have no idea how to do anything right because they are egomaniacal, appointed by nepotism and sucking up, and flatly consider underlings in lower management and craft as a bunch of idiots because we’re here, and they’re there.
What is needed besides more permanent help, is a complete dismantling of the City Carrier Assistant (CCA) program and the clerk equivalent. Hires are not allowed to be career employees until they fill a vacated full time position, which can be a very long time. They are told to run like hell, instructed to deliberately ignore change of addresses, and in the city carrier’s case, bullied and harassed to carry more mail in a time frame that can’t be done without skipping lunches and being careless and unsafe on the street. This is why, when your regular carrier or regular substitute is gone, chances are your mail is mishandled. It isn’t the fault of the CCA – they have to follow orders because they don’t have the job protection, although I also think they should not allow themselves to be harassed, and take the time to do the job right and take breaks and lunches, because ultimately they are the ones preventing themselves from gaining permanent positions.
Tens of thousands of city carriers will retire in the next one or two years, myself included. Management is waiting for us old farts to leave, because they can’t force us to run and be unsafe, and we won’t let them. They want us gone because of our pay scale, and want to replace us with more half price runners, and after doing route inspections probably a year to two years from now when enough CCA’s have gone regular and still run on their routes, like most of them do, instead of creating positions, routes will be eliminated and cities will be even in more dire straits as routes become impossibly long.
Newly converted regulars, you have got to stop running! Do a good job but don’t allow your management to treat you like a CCA. Use that overtime. Take your breaks and lunches. If you are not on the overtime desired list, be ready to file grievances if management doesn’t follow the Article 8 rules, and if you don’t them, download the NALC contract/JCAM and study it. If you are on the OTDL, fine, but make your route last eight hours if possible. You are the future, and you have as much involvement in making your job easier or hell on wheels as management does.
If positions go unfilled what do you think is going to happen. Packages will sit undelivered for days or get stolen by a temp employee with nothing to lose that’s what will happen.
Since Management has us under this new great system. We don’t need seasonal help or hiring. We don’t even have overtime for the regulars.