When I returned to work after Christmas, I heard stories from all my coworkers about how there was very light volume during the Christmas season.
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This has never been the case. In my years at the post office, a 40-hour work week is unheard of during the holidays. Usually the month of December is filled with 60-hour work weeks.
In previous years, I’ve worked through 6 a.m. starts and 7 p.m. ending work days. Our goal has always been to get as much out as we can at all times. Even when we had hampers and hampers of Amazon, UPS, and FedEx overflow packages, we got it done.
Many dated back to the first and second week of December. This includes priority mail.
My local management’s hands are tied. My office supervisors and postmasters know very little outside of the same thing they keep being told and relaying the message that “we can’t keep up with the volume.” They don’t have any more information than we do. The packages get sent and just get stuck somewhere in the middle.
There really is no rhyme or reason behind the delay of mail.
We haven’t limited the workforce, so there’s plenty of people to deliver the mail. Previous holiday seasons we kept up with our own volume along with Amazon packages.
Now, with Amazon creating their own fleet, we have less volume than ever, but we’re still being told we can’t handle the remaining volume.
There’s no logic behind it. I’m very concerned about the future of this company.
Not once in 17 years have I seen mail delayed or heard our management admit we can’t handle volume.
The scary part is customers are noticing.
Customers on my route ask why they’re just getting things that they ordered before Christmas. I get messages from friends via social networks asking me what’s up with the post office lately because they’re expecting overdue packages. I see more and more people acknowledging how long things sent via USPS take to ship and receive.
Recipients are hearing that we can’t get the mail to them on time. They’re starting to take note of how late their orders for Christmas have come in. They’re understandably frustrated.
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I was told by a friend that here in Warner Robins GA they sometimes do not get mail for 3-4 days. That is heresay. I personally have seen mail to me not delivered twice. I know because of “informed delivery” and because there was no mail in the box. Once, they delivered Saturday mail on Sunday. This is letter mail not packages. I am a retired postal clerk. Thank God for the retired part.
I don’t know where this guy works but I worked 6 days, 10-12 hours a day for a month and one of the biggest paychecks I’ve ever had in my 16 years at the PO. There’s plenty of reason why delays are happening, Covid, Pandemic buying, everyone is bored at home, postmaster took machinery out that hasn’t been replaced, new hires constantly quitting…..
Sounds like an undercover “Suit”.
That ain’t new carrier.
Give me a break.
Like when he says, when he came back after Christmas.
Where was he? I had AL refused 2 weeks before the 25th.