You’ve got mail. Somewhere. Probably.
The U.S. Postal Service is still digging out from under an avalanche of mail sent during the recent holiday season.
But for much of the past year the postal system has been strained by the impact of COVID-19 on its workflow and workforce.
In addition, operational changes ostensibly designed to stop the system from hemorrhaging money helped create a backlog of mail.
And the head of the Postal Service pledges that more changes in the name of cost savings are coming soon.
Online shopping has skyrocketed during the pandemic as many customers sheltered at home.
Both the Postal Service and those who depend on timely mail deliveries are still coping with the result.
In cities such as St. Louis, postal workers are putting in 12-hour days and pulling extra shifts to make a dent in mountains of letters and parcels.
In Baltimore, utility customers are receiving bills in the mail that are already past due.
And outside the main post office in Detroit, Lucy Johnson says lost letters that should have arrived at their destination long ago are putting her house at risk.
Union officials estimate as many as 14,500 postal employees are currently under quarantine.
“So any given day we’re six to 12 carriers short out of 60 routes. So there is days that it just can’t get done,” Kowalczyk says.
Union officials say the Postal Service is keeping on about 10,000 temporary workers until the end of the month to help clear the massive backlog of mail.
Unions say the Postal Service is also finalizing a deal to add almost 10,000 new jobs at processing plants.
source: NPR
It’s the same everywhere. If you aren’t good enough to be a carrier, instead of being fired, you get promoted to being a stupivisor. The postal service is the one place on earth where if you completely suck at your job, you get a promotion. How bout this idea, fire everyone who is incompetent and start over. Problem with that is, only like 10% of the postal workforce would remain. So what do you do to fix it, I don’t have the answer
Here’s the truth. The people in charge of our office are just plain incompetent. We have a had disaster even before Covid. I understand promoting people from within, but the post office just promotes people who can’t do the job they were hired to do (clerk, carrier). Oh you can’t carry mail anymore, well how about we make you supervisor. On top of that, we have clerks that don’t do anything at all and carriers that say they always need help to get their route done. There is fraudulent abuse from top to bottom. I could write 5 million words about it but I won’t.
The Postal Service’s management is more concerned with the carriers scanning and maintaining schedule, forget about service. Management also cares about having as many stupidvisors as possible so the low live bargaining unit employees can be controlled.
Too many incompetent sorry Chiefs and not enough damn Indians.
Hire CCAs you need help. Why did we have 6 people in ties in our office, and
we don’t have enough help to get the mail out.
You people are all fools liars and trash.
But, I bet you like your bonus. What a crap show.