USPS wants to hear employees’ ideas for strengthening postal workplaces
USPS News Link 1/04/2016
Tools of engagement – USPS seeks ideas to improve workplaces
The Postal Service wants to hear your ideas to strengthen employee engagement — and it’s giving you several ways to share your suggestions.
Employee engagement describes employees’ involvement, enthusiasm and positive contributions to the organization.
Beginning Jan. 5, USPS will introduce three channels for employees who want to share recommendations to improve engagement:
• Telephone. Call 844-303-6424 to record a message describing your ideas.
• Email. Send your comments to engagement@usps.gov.
• Online suggestion box. Go to LiteBlue to submit your feedback. The box is on the home page in the upper left hand corner and is titled “Employee Engagement suggestion box”.
All feedback will be received by the employee engagement team, which will consider the suggestions and seek ways to enact them when appropriate.
Some feedback may be forwarded to other parts of the organization for an appropriate response. Anonymity will be honored if requested, except when the feedback describes conditions that warrant notifying other authorities.
The new channels stem from suggestions gathered from a wide spectrum of employees.
“Our employees spoke loudly and clearly,” said Chief Human Resources Officer Jeff Williamson. “Our employees told us they wanted a method beyond the survey to communicate their feedback, and these three channels offer them that opportunity.”
Must be Contract time.
Exactly.
NEVER trust postal managment.
NEVER.
If you didn’t go on postal reporter.com. ..no one would know about this. …no service talks on the floor about this? …this is one of the main complaints !….no communication! !!!!!
here’s an idea: instead of relocating bad supervisors. fire them! if a supv. harrasses employees, fire them. the usps just moves these problem supvervisors to another facility. they r just like the catholic church! have a priest molesting little boys? dont arrest him…just move him to another parrish. it’s the same frigging thing!
Poor worker’s,poor management,poor customer relations r so typical of USPS,as it is nowadays in many private-sector businesses. Who hasn’t experienced such service in most supermarkets during the past three decades or so?. Venting ur complaints about USPS,over by the telephone,by e-mail, or via”Lite Blue”;is just another example of poor management. Then what? I doubt anyone will actually make any constructive changes.
I’m sure there is a rat in the woodpile someplace!
The bottom line to this so called “Employee Engagement suggestion box” is that the people that are getting promoted don’t have a clue because they are somebodies brother, sister, aunt, uncle, son and so on, you get the picture. Which don’t have a clue of what is going on. I once wrote a department when they had a flyer about management abuse and misuse of authority. There was a blantant abuse of nepotism. The Senior MDOs kids were promoted from a PSE to a supervisor within a 8 months period and the regular supervisors were afraid to say something because of repercussion. Guess what……nothing happened. So do you really think that something will come out of this “Employee Engagement suggestion box?”……nope. It’s is just one of those “projects” that new supervisors are suppose to come up within their position and I bet you whoever that person “thought” of this idea is getting promoted even though there were no outcome from the idea. Here’s a final thought. The Postal Service better get people that knows business because Amazon is planning on doing their own delivery infrastructure and if it comes together well…..we will be in deep sh*t. Hopefully I’ll be retired by then.
In every organization, there are some winners and there are some whiners. In my time, 21 yrs spent in postal work. I have met some very smart people. some with degrees, some returning to school to enhance their education. Many who have life skills mastered through common sense. Then there are the goofy ones, but they are unique, the funny ones who keep you awake. The USPS pays well, they really do. That’s why we’re all still here. I just don’t think the USPS understands the diversity of their workforce. Utilize them, get their feed back. encourage. Don’t pay large firms to get the statistics. Its all right here, right under their noses and the sad part is, no one asks them. They know their jobs like no ones business, funny thing is they are always dictated on how to do it. Year after year after year. Never makes much sense to me, but I’m one of those who cant see the big picture. Most of us don’t. Discipline the employees because illness or life trauma has caused them to be absent? That will get you teamwork, really? If anyone uses Leave without pay to take off from work, I don’t think discipline is warranted. I think that’s discipline enough. Just one day is a chunk of change. How about employee power meetings? every one invited. Get their feedback on what’s going right and whats going wrong. You got a beef with your office, the way its handled, a supervisor, a procedure, call it out in the meetings it should be free speech driven. Let the employees be heard. They’ll know if its falling on deaf ears when nothing is done, changed or implemented. Above all, get someone who is authorized to make local changes instead of all the red tape. You know how our office knows what’s going on? rumor and gossip. that’s just sad. Remember an organization is only as good as its employees.
They never listened before so why now? Another game and nothing changes
Terminate the manages who lie, steal, and commit fraud. Of course, that means replacing your entire management structure.
What I want to know is who are the people who will be heading up this “Employee Engagement Team” and what are their names? Are they actual workers that have spent a number of years doing the jobs or are they 90-day-wonder managers that can say they have done the job, but in all honesty, lack real experience?
If it makes sense they wont do it.
Just say no!
I sent a letter to the editor, Kelvin something or other and he responded and sounded like he cared. BS, I didn’t believe and that is what I said, “I do not believe you.”
ok some one in the upper management told the lower management to come up with something that pacifies the workers into thinking they actually care and want our ideas. We suggested they look into the actual effect of consolidations of GMF and P&DC’s. they did what they wanted found it couldn’t work and changed the delivery standards. THEY DIDN”T LISTEN TO A WORD. This program will be another flop and be slowly swept under the rug and phased out. People don’t waste you time. They (management) doesn’t care about the workers, the mail or the customer.
Fire all the thugs and tools. Get qualified people to run the service.
Treat the employees as assets not just some number. Dignity and
respect go a long way.
Sounds very much like the old “Employee Involvement” plan of the 80’s. Management wants the employees to believe they will be listened to. Management should go to Las Vegas and go perform. They would be very funny!
Fire all the managers and make them accountable for their actions . Most would go to jail . I will never understand how someone could treat another human the way they do .
Imagine that management wants to improve the mess they themselves created
Management you want to improve work places, ” stop rewarding bad management that continually create hostile work environment”, no more screw up, move up
Be careful with this…
Just imagine sitting at contract arbitration and the USPS says, “Mr. Arbitrator, our employees want to freedom from seniority “restrictions”, penalty overtime, rotation of overtime by seniority, and they are satisfied with their wages. Sure the union says otherwise, but we have all of these employee emails which say so.”
Isn’t it curious that all of this concern for employee wellbeing comes out right before contract arbitration? We got burned by employee surveys once before. Do not trust the USPS.
reminds me of the time a letter carrier gave a 250K lead to the marketing department……..they got a bonus check, the sucker carrier got a 6 buck coffee mug-made in China. Do not tell these scum squat. that is why they get paid more money to come up with business ideas…….as we all know they suck at that concept!
Sell the place to United Parcel Service…………see now we workers have better pay, better management, and better union. see not so hard when you have an IQ greater than 50!
Bullbleep.
After 37 years of working at the PO, not one time was I ever asked, “what do you think of this idea”…..or “have you got any ideas on this” (and I have some good ones). Now that I have retired, they ask….
Suuuure.
Leave your ideas.
And if we find any we like, we’ll claim them as our own, and get another bonus for the idea.
That is, if we don’t use the process to discipline those who submit ideas….
Signed,
Postal Mgmt.