4/25/17 The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to shake up the management of postal stations in the Richmond area as the fallout continues from a scandal over overtime pay, sources have told the Free Press.
Shekeera Greene
In the past week, at least five station managers or carrier supervisors at area stations have been removed amid allegations that they altered postal carrier time cards to reduce overtime, the sources said. The specific stations were not identified.
At least 10 others are under investigation, according to the sources.
The sources said the USPS has brought in staff from Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg and North Carolina to fill posts temporarily. The temporary managers are being paid bonuses and are being housed at hotels during the transition, the sources said.
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It is the Postmasters and higher ups that know and condone
these illegal acts. They order their subordinates to break the
law so that they meet their pay for performance goals. It is all
about their salaries. Fire these shmucks. THE PO IS RAMPANT
WITH WASTE AND FRAUD> MUFFIN MEGHEN NEEDS TO
GET OFF HER HIGH HORSE< FIRE THE MISCREANTS AND RESTORE
OUR SERVICE TO ITS FORMER GOALS AND STANDARDS
WAY TO GO all. How about all postal employees who steal on daily basis. Take long lunches. Extra breaks knowing that it’s wrong.
What can a carrier do, on their own to prove such violation? I write my BT/ET/etc daily. I believe it can be found on the “everything report.” However, I do not have access to such. Due to relationship of steward and postmaster, I do not believe steward would act on any violations, if found. OT list, which is not distributed even close to correct. As noted by few carriers, equalization is result of retaliation for inquiries regarding such distribution.
notice it says “removed” and not “fired”! next week the criminal crew will be over at IOD Meghan’s for tea and crumpets!
next stop Mid-Island PD&C, Melville New York……second to last of all PD&C’s and we don’t rate an intervention? hey Brennen get off your a@@!
What about getting of all the union reps that turned a blind eye to this bullshit! This why Fred Rolando needs to go in 2018. There is carriers here in the north east going through the same thing . They are carriers being punched off the clock, skipping 10minute breaks and 30 minute lunches. The local union president tells us that management could forces us to punch us off the clock and makes you skip your lunch and 10 minute breaks because they are allowed to manage.
wow, and Shekeera Greene is the one who got the ball rolling on the corruption. Good for her for sparking the fuse to rid the criminals. !!
This crap has been going on for over a decade at least. I had to go to the Federal Labor Board to get this exposed in my office The first thing I tell new employees is to know how they are supposed to be paid and to write down how much they work. Lie, cheat and steal is their motto.
Will anyone in management be put up for removal for what they did? Will any one in management spend time in the joint for what they did? Very doubtful! In America people in power never pay the price!
IF A POSTAL INSPECTOR OR OIG IS READING THIS PLEASE LOOK AT MAINTENANCE DEPTPARTMENT AT THE RICHMOND PDC…YOU WILL FIND LOTS OF FRAUD ,AND STEALING OF TIME AND POSTAL PROPERTY……
About time that these toolbags were held accountable.
Now it is time to hold other toolbags responsible for
the unethical, immoral, and reprehensible acts they
commit on a daily basis.
This happens all over in postal service, postmaster also steal etravel and change clock rings but nothing is done
No surprise here. When i worked in the postal service ,38 years, now retired, I witnessed overtime list corruption .Ignoring the overtime list, supervisors gave their favorites overtime until an investigation team from GPO came into the station to end the favoritism , on my complaint.Another time ,a team from Washington came to NY for an inspection. Supervisors cleaned all the carrier ledges and put the mail in trucks, driving around until the team left the station,thinking all the mail had been worked and delivered.False mail counts,on a daily basis, are a regular occurrence. Postal workers, in the craft, are very hard working people but are never given credit for their work .From what i hear from letter carriers things are only getting worse.
And how many of these managers were just following orders from their superiors and thrown to the wolves as convenient patsies? You think the upper level creeps are going to take the blame for this? There was a big Federal lawsuit a few years back in the South district that involved the same pay theft, and I know for a fact it was on orders from districts and Areas. One got a very nice promotion out of it because he knew the right people to suck up to, but this is why I would never have gotten into management.
The good ol’ boy system is rampant in the upper reaches of unions and management, make no mistake. Unless you’re already connected through family or are buddies with other high level officials in the unions or management, you will reach a no man’s zone for a while that can leave you hanging out to dry as a scapegoat, either for union improprieties, such as illegal use of funds for re-elections, sabotaging grievances or promoting unqualified people into higher offices, or in management taking the heat for their insistence and direct orders to discipline without cause, ignore the contracts, or get framed for something the higher ups want to keep quiet.
You better not be worried about your conscience, honesty or integrity or you will go nowhere because that’s how the game is played the higher you go. And whistleblowers or even those suspected of being such are marked people. I know a lot of good people on both sides who could have made a difference, a positive difference, but were, like myself, eventually discouraged to the point of giving up any ambitions about making the workplace a better one for all of us. I will say harassment and abuse in my office did end, thanks to a mountain of grievances, complaints to the NLRB and upper management directly thanks to yours anonymously. How I managed to not get pay back amazes me to this day, because management was furious and the higher level of the particular union didn’t like having to spend so much time with a small branch from a small state they couldn’t benefit from election or dues wise. I was treated like shit by my union heads for quite some time, for having the nerve to demand the representation we members paid for. That happens a lot.
So before we get too excited about these Richmond area supervisors and management removed, the odds of their being scapegoats to cover the asses of the real culprits stealing pay from employees is pretty high.