PMG Megan Brennan’s latest “Business Focus” video was released March 26.
In the March Edition of Postmaster General Megan Brennan’s “Business Focus,” the PMG discusses how the Postal Pulse survey will help improve USPS workplaces. The Postal Pulse features shorter questions that will allow USPS to better leverage employees’ feedback.
The Gallup organization is administering the 2015 survey, which began March 16 and will continue through Friday, April 3. Beginning in 2016, employees will receive the survey twice yearly.
“I urge you to take the survey so we can better help you do the best job possible,” Brennan says.
Individual responses aren’t shared with managers or supervisors, the PMG says. “They’re confidential. You have my commitment on that point.”
Additionally, the PMG discusses initiatives to help USPS grow its business, including the new My USPS.com package-tracking app.
The app relies on data produced by the new Mobile Delivery Devices (MDDs), which letter and rural carriers use to scan packages upon delivery.
Approximately 100,000 MDDs have been deployed. All carriers are scheduled to receive them by Sept. 30.
“For the My USPS.com concept to work, we need timely and accurate scans,” Brennan says.
The PMG also discusses a promotion to get more businesses to use technology to enliven their mailpieces, and then she concludes with praise for employees.
https://youtu.be/RgHggjQfisM
“Thank you for your hard work, your service, and for making our customers your top priority,” she says.
dont take it out on the worker. at our plant 117/119 our union president is a fat lazy oaf who we have not seen on t-3 in over 4 years…………not one word on what to do with this new survey. shop stupid is a rat for the mdo. rock and hard place. we need teamsters. 1% raise and 6% inflation……..you do the math.
Bed Time and Lonely Boy, thanks for nothing for filling out the form in the first place. Haven’t you been informed how the act of simply responding to the survey can and will be used against you? It does not matter how you answered the questions, management only cares that you responded, so they can be monetarily rewarded. Just take your survey, grab a cup of coffee, take your allotted time for the survey, then tear it up. Do not just drop it in the trash, tear it up.
Gallop charged millions and post office paid up, because no matter how many times the PMG claims the Postal Pulse is confidential, it is only confidential until it gets to the arbitrators desk, he/she sees we have close friends, get a lousy pay and lousy cost of living increases, then the arbitrator will take our real pulse and screw us out of pay.
that’s funny Bonzo!!…. I agree- what a complete waste of time and money
The Union is supposed to be/IS the voice of the Employee….surveys are another waste of Postal funds.
Answer the survey right down the middle.
Neutral responses give management nothing to work with, in fact, they are supposed to discourage you from neutral responses.
Make the surveys a waste of time for management as well as craft, and watch them disappear.
You in management will use the data to spin and twist what you collect into favorable results for contract negotiations. If you really cared about the employees, you would ask relevant and pointed questions that dealt with real world specifics, not overgeneralizations, like “My supervisor tells me of changes to work requirements” or “my supervisor lets me know how to do my job better” or some other similar pointless question.
One question a carrier shared with me, since I threw my survey in the trash unopened, asked if the reader had close personal friends in the office where they worked.
I do not understand the necessity of that question, and I view it as an invasion of privacy. Like other “help” posters and readouts that tell us how to handle grief, encourage us to seek help for this or that, it’s all nosy crap that meddles too much into our private lives, and the management is not equipped or entitled to ask for such information, much less deal with it.
But postal management thinks they’re so smart and special they can dig their mitts into anything they want to. But just try to get them to focus on service. Our office is on a “program” again to achieve 99% MSP scanner rates, meaning more street spying and harassment. However, the DPS errors are skyrocketing, UBBM mail can go weeks without being worked, mark up mail has laid in the floor for over a week and there is no emphasis or interest in accurate delivery, period.
It’s just like management to get in a lather over useless nit picking bullshit and ignore the customer and our product. Of course, it’s because they don’t understand the importance of reliability, only speed. You think it’s bad now, wait a few years for the rest of us pre-internet carriers to retire and then you’ll be lucky to get mail that belongs in your time zone, much less in your box.
I believe the question was do u have a best friend at the PO?
took that odd survey…..all bad checks to the left, except the question “do you have any very good friends at the post office”? I was confused, does that mean fellow union workers……..or all the female supervisors that I have had sex with? total waste of money, can only guess how much money gallop poll charged for that hot mess.