3 thoughts on “TV News Story on Chicago Mail Delivery Problems to Air Tuesday Night”

1. We see postmaster and supervisor scan express and priority attempted all the time before they go out and deliver. It seems to be happening not just in our officce.

2. Dear Chicago postal customers:
   Expect nothing but lies, deceit, denying, and deflection from postal mgmt./eas ranks.

   In their eyes, you are nothing short of a nuisance.

3. You don’t even have to watch this video to know what’s going on. Mainly, it all boils down to piss poor inept management at all levels. Yes, CCA’s are screwing up, as we all did when we first started, but let’s consider a few things.
   First, management, after their laughable “carrier academy” is strictly hands off as far as training new employees. Their theory is that they want to see if the new carrier can figure it out for themselves. It was that way for me way back in 1984, and that hasn’t changed. This only masks the real problems, mainly that the supervisors are lazy and/or don’t know shit about carrying mail beyond DOIS figures. They do allow carriers to train in our office with experienced carriers, which is better, but I’ll bet that doesn’t happen everywhere. My “training” was carrying two ten minute walking swings with a supervisor more interested in getting his beer at days end, and the following Monday I was greeted with a full buggy of mail on an 850 stop “auxiliary” route and told to follow the mail around, and good luck. That was it. No casing training, no training on how to recognize different mail rates, or how to process them. Only because other carriers helped me was I able to learn and make it past my 90 days.
   Second, management has no concept or interest in professionalism. How could they when they have none themselves? This means there is no emphasis or focus on accuracy or behavior on the street. Some are driven enough to do okay, but others can be sloppy as hell, rude, and stressed out. They figure out quickly misdelivering mail or not bothering at all is no big deal to management. The regular or T-6 can clean it up the next day. So what happens when one of these miscreants goes regular? They destroy those routes and never learn it. After a route count and small territory change, I picked up a few streets from a girl who was a meth addict and after being on her route for several years couldn’t tell me the names of any customers I picked up. She left boxes crammed with mail that was months old, much of it forwardable. But did management do anything after a couple of us complained just how terrible she was? No, they just said “clean it up”, and it would be our ass if we didn’t.
   That’s it, folks. Piss poor attitudes from craft who should have been severely disciplined or removed, and more of the same from lazy bosses who got their desk jobs being snitches and suck ups. This wasn’t reporting grossly mishandled mail or other serious problem – it was all snitching crap about little bits of gossip, or anything they thought they could impress the PM with. Being young and very attractive has served our current 204-B very well, who, on those rarest of occasions when she carries mail, scatters it like a kitten mauling a feather pillow.
   Employees can only complain so much because of our agreements we sign to not publicly slam the Service. You, the customer, can help us and we ask for it by your continuing to make these incidents well known and utilizing the media to expose just how bad service can be. We appreciate it and want you to know who’s at fault. Management and their refusal to properly address problems, that’s whom.

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