july 22, 2015 Charlotte County, VA – The sight of an empty mailbox in Charlotte Courthouse is more than just an inconvenience for businesses and citizens. It’s straining communication and commerce in the county, and now even public officials have had enough.
CCH resident Kathleen Mitchell filed a complaint with the Post Office, after the mail complicated her planning a class reunion. Mitchell says “This is ridiculous! If you need to send a letter to Drakes Branch, which is 5 miles, you better get in a car.”
Beverly Fitz with the Charlotte Co. Chamber of Commerce has heard it from member businesses, as well, saying “I spoke with a business who said that their bills were delayed in delivery.”
According to the Postal Service, the issue lies in a new delivery route. Mail picked up in Charlotte Court House goes to Farmville, and then to Richmond, before being processed and routed. So in May, Fitz wrote a letter to her representatives, including Senator Mark Warner, outlining the problem. In the letter, Fitz says slow delivery “…costs our businesses and community too much to ignore any longer.” More
the postal mismanagement circus is totally dysfunctional. unprofessional and uneducated is the norm not the exception. 30 years of circling the drain=loss of over $80 billion since 2009. federal government is no help as they are almost 20 trillion in debt. it is a shell of company compared to UPS or FDX……………when the federal governments debt bill comes due, which it will, watch out below. republican or democrat they will throw the po under the bus, when the do do hits the fan. past time to get rid of the friends, family, good old boy/girl, diversity to check a box, and all the other boloney these bureaucrats inflict on their employee’s and customers. cut po mismanagement by 50%…….streamline themselves should be the mismanagement mantra.
There is Priority Express if they need it delivered the next day. I don’t see a problem.
And our intrepid managers, who are omniscient and the center of the known universe, as far as they’re concerned, are fighting to not go back to the old standards. This is what happens when what used to be a public service gets handled by morons, ass kissers and other worthless blowholes who will stop at nothing to get to the highest levels possible who think they’re in it strictly for profit.
The Peter Principle, which states that people climb to their level of incompetence in most businesses, does not apply to postal management. It’s sickening, the favoritism that is given to snitches, the aforementioned ass kissers, relatives, and other methods to get the attention of people who are in no position to be evaluating the performance of anybody, least of all themselves.
One might think this is a craft worker just venting, but consider that I will have 31 years in in October, did a lot of union work as officers and even up to arbitration for a little while. I’ve seen more of what goes on than most carriers who haven’t been union stewards or presidents and therefore had no reason to see the massive paperwork, forms and other useless shit management uses to “manage” us.
It should come as no surprise that the automation of supervisory duties, and even postmaster work has been because districts and Area management insist on running every office from afar, totally ignorant to the unique situations of any city, totally indifferent to bad weather, and out to cut throats to impress their superiors.
In a nutshell, your local management has all the decision making power of a fish. But more than just because Districts and Area are control freaks, the sad truth is, the performances of far too many supervisors and PM’s and station managers is so bad that upper level people have resorted to making the jobs as simple as possible, with supervisors usually only entering a handful of numbers into DOIS, and letting the program tell them how to distribute the help. Even with that much assistance, some still fuck everything up. We know this because as craft, far too many of these people were lousy craft employees, too. I know of one PM whom, at his home office several years ago as a city carrier, called in more than anybody else combined, and if it even looked like a cloud might blow over, he called in then and for any adverse weather situation.
I had a T-6 who was so childish he deliberately misdelivered mail, and blamed it on the regulars on his tour because he thought it was funny. He bragged about hanging out in sports bars and watching entire basketball games on the clock, wrecked his LLV twice on probation, and guess what? He’s a station manager. He is related to one of the inbred families and everything was prearranged and a cake walk. Won’t surprise me to see him as a POOM or worse.
So that’s why mail service sucks, folks. We carriers do what we can, and yes, there’s bad eggs on our side, too, but we can only do what we’re allowed to do and have no control over mail scheduling. Management is incredibly inept and corrupt, and needs a total housecleaning.
And the band played on!!…