WILLISTON, N.D. – Mail carriers here will work Sunday to catch up on a backlog of undelivered mail to rural Williston residents after four local U.S. Postal Service employees suddenly quit, a spokesman said Saturday.
Williston carriers have been unable to complete full delivery of some routes in the past week, affecting a varying number of customers each day, said Postal Service spokesman Peter Nowacki. The Williston employees who resigned during the past 2½ weeks gave little or no notice, he said.
“When they leave, their knowledge of delivering mail and their particular routes goes with them,” Nowacki said. “We face the same hiring difficulties that every other business in the Oil Patch area is dealing with.”
Customers have not been able to pick up their mail at the post office because staffing issues prevented the mail from being sorted for individual customers, he said.
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Also, regarding repetitive motion injuries. Uh, duh! If you have an injury please follow the advice of the kind Dr. noted up above. Our office has at least three carriers of more advanced age (40 plus)out at any given time, along with four or five others who have already had surgery.
Notice how there is no follow up in this story regarding WHY the four employees quit with little notice. It’s ridiculous how low our journalism has fallen. How hard is it to interview the four employees before you release the story?
That’s funny. The Mailhandlers didn’t complain when they enjoyed the fruits of Me-Too contracts after the APWU negotiated those! Just another Me-Too. . .
get real-Blame the stupid APWU members who voted for more low paid,non career employees with their high turnover when they ratified their crap CBA and the arbitrators imposed it in the other union contracts.
If we could only get four (4) local U.S. Postal Service managers to suddenly quit….
The cuff is responsible for stabilizing the glenohumeral joint and rotating the humerus outward (external rotation). When shoulder trauma occurs, these functions can be compromised. Because individuals are highly dependent on the shoulder for many activities, overuse of the muscles can lead to tears, with the vast majority again occurring in the supraspinatus tendon.
I would recommend you contact your OWCP union official to get your paperwork
going.
Gee I wonder if these rotator cuff issues could be job related
I have 5 months till I retire. I have rotator cuff problems in both shoulders.
our management did not even show up today clerk levels down 50% 1 is on vacation so that leaves us with 3 hope 1 does not get sick or that would leave us with 2 clerks in the past we had 8 what a joke level 20 office screw ISSA and his tea party assholes. there all after your money look out
I have 9 months and also have rotator
problems
I have 6 months till I retire and now need surgery for 2 tears on my rotator cuff
As a follow up, our office has seen a large increase in the number of Carriers complaining with shoulder, neck, and back issues….Can we get any feedback confirming this in your offices? THANKS
As I predicted in a earlier post, the Postal Service will have a hard time keeping quality Employees, what with work requirements becoming greater every day and pay and benefits under attack, 90% of CCAS will quit within 2 years,
realizing that they willnot physically be able to work until they reach age 62 or greater…..The other 20% will be filing
for disability retirement within 8-10 years….Great work plan you idiots (management) came up with…..
This is what happens, with the usual USPS mgmt methods of treating employees.
They leave, and rightly so.
Of course, not one USPS mgr. will be held accountable, as usual, for anything.