2/12/16 While local residents have complained of delays with mail service since mail from the 16701 ZIP code was rerouted from Erie to Rochester, N.Y. for processing, the U.S. Postal Service assures the kinks are being worked out.
In April of 2015, the Postal Service consolidated mechanized letter and flat processing from Erie into Rochester, according to Tad Kelley, Postal Service Public Affairs Communications for the Western Pennsylvania District.
“Our plan has always been to consolidate mail processing operations where excess equipment is being underutilized, causing redundant costs and adversely affecting efficiencies,” Kelley told The Era. “Over the 10 months since this move, we have continued to evaluate the process for improvements, as we have done with all mail processing moves conducted across the country.”
Kelley said after inquiring with both Postal Service consumer affairs offices in Rochester and Western Pennsylvania, as well as the Bradford Post Office, he has not found any significant volume of customer concern.
Katie McAndrew of Bradford said since the changeover to Rochester, it typically takes one to three days longer to receive expected packages — which she receives regularly as she buys and sells Zippo lighters on eBay. McAndrew said through checking tracking information, she has come to believe the packages are going through a sorting facility in Warrendale after Rochester, then going to Bradford.
I bet be4 they consolidated,flats and letter-sized,out of Erie,PA.they made certain first;that the plant had the least experienced and least competent plant manager. Case,in-point,when very same consolidation; was completed from the Queens,NY P&D.C. in the Brooklyn,NY P&D.C.,Queens had a mostly invisible plant manager. And he had a strong couldn’t care less attitude. A little more than a year earlier,the suddenly promoted a strong hands on and good communicating plant manager into guess where?;Brooklyn. This consolidation was completed, as of Aug.1,2015.
What!!?? Redundancy????!!!! There’s no problem with the postal service creating redundant reports. And on top of that there are barcodes we have to scan all along the routes to determine where we are at what time. Then there’s the pop up voice on the scanners telling carriers to scan mail pieces at certain times of the day. They already have the the capability of realtime tracking. So why all the redundancy??
Cause somebody’s got to justify their job. As far as delayed mail goes, the great and all powerful management has made their dicission. And there not interested in what you think if it doesn’t fit their agenda. The customers might be paying their checks but they are not running this show. Whomever scratches the postal services back, that’s who’s in charge. We’re talking constituents here people. Get with the program.
Yeah, you betcha the USPS is getting right on this problem. The spokesman, Tad Kelley is lying out his ass when he says he hasn’t found any “significant” numbers of customer concern. Well, I assure you as a 31+ year city carrier that Kelley wouldn’t know a customer if he ran into one. He is higher up the management ladder and wouldn’t be in a position to take complaints anyway, so naturally there are no large numbers of “concerns” as far as his insulated world is involved.
Hell, management spent millions on new scanners with GPS trackers, and every day we have to scan pieces of mail with bar codes on them when the scanner comes on and tells us to do so at a particular address.
Okay, fine. I’ve had that damn thing go off 10 times in the last two days, and only at one address did it sound off at the correct location. Every other “scan request” was no less than two blocks away, either on a street I wouldn’t even be on for an hour or longer, wrong side of the street or well past the address already.
Just shows you – like DOIS, which is full of false information along with instructions to short carriers on parcel counts and anywhere else they can get away with it, and this GPS program that management is either totally corrupt and dishonest with us or just plain incompetent. It seems they can’t do much of anything without thoroughly fucking it up and they will not listen to us.