Former carrier: No time off till end of December
AURORA, Colo. – The United States Postal Service says it is hiring additional carriers to handle a big increase in business, but some carriers and rural carrier associates say it’s not happening fast enough.
Melissa Deal said she quit her job as a rural carrier associate earlier this month, after being told that she wouldn’t get a day off until the end of December.
“I was told that I’d have to work 7 days a week without a day off through the busy season,” she said, “and I have kids.”
She (postal supervisor) said one of the reasons rural associates work so much overtime is because many of their fellow workers call in sick.
Clerks were split into 2 shifts. If you were able to work the window you worked 7 AM to 7 PM with some senior. The rest worked 7PM to 7AM from Thanksgiving until Christmas Day ~~ stop the whine or quit. McDonalds is hiring.
Deliver advertising bulk business mail 5 days a week: deliver priority-express 7 days a week as online shopping will increase. Do not use regular carriers; use RCA, TRC. and city auxiliary-substitutes. No full time carriers. Efficient use of personnel and vehicles
can preserve revenue. Parcel and shipping revenue is only green when compared to SPLY. First class mail revenue is past history comparable to smoke signals in 1800s.
What most of you don’t realize is the marching orders you deal with everyday that make no sense whatsoever actually comes from the Area or Washington and its then filtered down the chain of command.
Since I have been working I never see management . They hide behind computers and make demands. They never come to your office to see whats going on and how you are doing with the “Deliver the Brand” business. Hell do they care? As management they are not Delivering the Brand by hiding behind a desk. Then the hiring process is ……….. I cant even say. Postal Service set it up. You will lose employees if they don’t feel appreciated
Knifing group as many are selected by managers to serve a specific purpose to harass and intimidate supervisors that treat employees with dignity and respect. People and communication skills are not considered. The primary attribute of these selected low self esteem managers is to create workplace havoc as directed by district management and MPOOs.
They didn’t know Christmas was coming this year so it’s not their fault.
When the Postal Service does hire some one, the Postal Service treats the employee like a slave and an inmate! Why do so many people quit the Postal Service? Why is it so hard to treat an employee with respect? Management could even go so far as to pretend the employee is a human. But that would be too difficult for management. Management only treats donuts with respect1
at our plant on long island, ny it is like a ship without a rudder. 99% of mismanagement have no college, never mind MBA’s in business. not one of them can make a decision, solve a problem, or staff a area properly. they do all have the game of “pass the buck” down to a science. the senior MDO failed the postmasters training course and was dumped back on us as a default position-dumb as dirt but arrogant as they come-acts like she graduated from Harvard-would surprise me if she got out of 8th grade. all they care about are massaging the self induced bloated number count for their criminal acquired bonus money. If it was up to me I would vote to join the Teamsters and sell the dump off to UPS. they would be on the street within the month due to incompetence of the highest order. God help us-please!
Post office has the worst management I’ve ever seen. Of about 10 postmasters I’ve had only one was good, 2 were ok, and the rest were mental dinosaurs that could not spell innovation but could only badger. They cannot manage a light switch. These hypocrites cannot do the work themselves but expect others to. They never take up for a carrier who has potentially hundreds of customers to possibly complain but only drive the stress deeper. They sit in their offices until THEY need to go to Walmart for something personal, or to the golf course, or to pick their child up from school…..but they never consider that carriers need some time off also. Postal Managers should be the ones who have to scan in and out of where they are and justify why they are there. Why not? They have the time! I figure the PO eediuts will begin hiring for the Christmas season sometime in January.
Its all about productivity and numbers/ volume. OT doesn’t seem to matter to this business. At our office management is told to leave an open rt so we can pivot while a cca is at home or sent to another town. Ends up costing OT to regular carriers while the cca could have been paid half as much. Stupid
make the fracking supervisors and postal management go carry the mail, then they will wake up, most of them were poor carriers that’s why they went to management. they can hire workers, veterans etc.
Yes, it’s time to travel back in postal time to last year when as usual package business and bulk catalogues and junk go through the roof before bulk mail is somewhat curtailed during the month of December. People are very overworked, management as usual never seems to be able to anticipate anything in a business that is one of the most predictable of any. Gee, Christmas? We never thought of mail increasing then.
This is a clue to the indifference management has for its craft, who are increasingly regarded as numbers. Far too many supervisors and managers refuse to acknowledge that craft workers have families, outside lives and interests. They look at us as automatons to do their bidding and do it according to their stupid DOIS figures. It really doesn’t matter to them how much they overwork employees. It doesn’t matter either to them how we can get sick or injured. They can and have been very rude and callous in dealing with honest illnesses, concerned only for their short term inconveniences.
When you have to work with no days off, you get exhausted. That makes it easier to catch colds and other maladies as your immune system tries to fight in a body that is not getting the rest and rejuvenating it needs. We’ll be out this winter in bitter cold and snow while management sits on their cozy ass inside the office and bitches about how it’s taking us more time because our boxes are frozen shut, the streets are nearly impassable, or some other “excuse” as far as they’re concerned. They have no empathy for our work conditions.
Only when District clamps down on the overtime budget does anything happen and then it takes forever. Then we get CCA’s, who can certainly run, but as a rule destroy the routes they cover because they’re pressed for time (if they’d take their lunches and not run they’d get less work but you can’t tell them anything, at least around here). There is no training for proper handling of mail – it’s all just shove it in the box and let the regular goof off carrier fix it.
But these same people will get performance bonuses.
If you don’t like it quit, oh that’s right you make way more money than any other job you could get. Easier to complain about all that’s wrong then just doing the job, are you on the overtime list, own assignment or only 8 hrs, my guess is on the overtime list but really doesn’t want to carry another route, just get paid when management can’t equalize right. Stop complaining and make a difference, why bash the cca’s. Why not help them to be better and it will help everyone.
I would love that overtime and pay!