If your mail has been late in recent months Google is partly to blame, or Amazon, or Fresh Direct, or Instacart, or Ebay, or Dollar Shave Club, or Zappos or whoever you ordered from online instead of buying at a brick and mortar store.
Postal officials said the growth of e-commerce has dramatically increased the number of packages flowing through the Postal Service and at the same time, Santa Monica’s Post Office has experienced a staffing shortage due to wave of retirements.
Maher said the 4.5 billion packages delivered last year are part of the problem, but an aging workforce is also a factor.
“A larger percentage of our employees are eligible for retirement and are retiring,” he said. “We can’t hire new workers fast enough.”
In addition to a bottleneck in the hiring process, Maher said postal work is harder than most people realize, particularly the physical nature of moving mail from point to point.
“Santa Monica, as well as many other offices, is understaffed and the Postal Service is diligently working on the challenge, constantly hiring and training new workers,” he said. “It is a physically demanding job and many new hires do not last, either not meeting USPS standards or resigning.”
If it is a physically demanding job why do they treat their injured employees like SHIT ?