October 14, 2015 THORNTON, Colo. – The United States Postal Service is giving new meaning to the term “late night delivery.”
For a variety of reasons, several letter carriers were out delivering mail well past 10:00 Tuesday night.
One carrier was spotted near the Thornton Post Office at East 88th Avenue and Washington Street at 11:30 p.m.
Postal officials blame holiday, equipment breakage. Read more
Management has it rough also. They must use headlamps to find the executive only gym, and to enable them to find the limos after a “hard” day at “work”. Management is just too busy to think of bring on more carriers. Now if management could only have more stupidvisors to man the GPSs. It is important to catch bad employees.
While those in Congress drag their feet and Postal Management cares little about it’s workers
Simple solution
Don’t stay out in the dark
Bring mail back to station
Force management to do their job and hire more help
I see it all the time in place I work. Carriers and clerks breaking their backs to get the job done for unappreciative management
Carriers don’t need to sign the OT list if they don’t want to work past 8 hrs, and the pre funding has nothing to do with longer routes and working late……. that is a union excuse….. not sure what they will use an excuse next year when the pre funding payment ends…… that we havent made in the last several years with no penalty anyway….. all a game
There is this new thing called forced overtime
Monday legal holidays we letter carriers define as those holidays where nobody gets a day off except government and maybe some banks, although they usually ignore them nowadays. Those holidays, with the exception of Veteran’s Day, are all pointless and we’re better off not taking the day off because not just in Thornton Colorado, it means triple and quadruple mail on the first day back, and most of us consider it hardly worth the back breaking load to get a day off that really doesn’t need celebrating, especially a bullshit holiday like Columbus Day where we celebrate a pirate and murderer who never set foot in the U.S.
It would not hurt my feelings to lose MLK’s Birthday (why not a JFK Birthday?) not because he wasn’t a good man but because of the terrible work day we get the next day. Ditto for that stupid President’s Day (I have to take a day off for George W. Bush?) too. We should be working when everybody else is.
Plus, like where I work, as the holiday volume starts to increase, management decides to bring us in later. That makes a lot of sense. And motto or no motto, nobody should be out as late as 11:30 PM. Hire some damn help, management and think of carrier’s safety, which you don’t and never will. Having several carriers murdered a few years ago out after dark in bad neighborhoods resulted in no action by management anywhere. They say our safety is their number one priority, but they lie about everything else, too.
The NALC should encourage its membership to contribute resolutions to the next contract to be negotiated between management and the NALC to force strict timetables for carriers out after a reasonable time. In Alaska, and far northern states where days are noticeably shorter, being in darkness is unavoidable, but people are used to it in places like Caribou, Maine or Anchorage. Even so, those carriers should be in by no later than, say, 6:00 or 7:00 PM local time.
If there isn’t enough help it’s management’s fault. We carriers don’t manage – we just deal with the idiocy they foist on us.
Quit whining….you poor letter carriers! Find a different job if you don’t like the one you have now!
Where is the nalc on this one? Working that late at night is stupid and not safe
This happens on days after a holiday. Our station had six routes down because of people on vacation, people out due to surgeries and several people calling out sick. Two of the four routes didn’t go out. In other words, they didn’t deliver any mail on those two routes. Just think if postal management had its way, we would have a five day work week every week and midnight delivery would be the norm. Forget not being able to see while driving and that it’s not safe. it’s all about the numbers. Since congress has strapped the postal service with the prefunding of 5.6 BILLION dollars for ten years, the postal service has made routes more than eight hours long trying to cut workers positions and doubling up on others. It’s slowly overworking the slaves and causing more to call out six after the holidays. I’ve even heard workers say give me a letter of warning and put me on restricted sick leave. It’s not worth working 12 hours in unsafe conditions. It’s starting to be a common practice.
NALC has the upper hand if they had the smarts to use it. NALC goes to binding arbitration during contract talks, make the following six a issue.
1) Evaluated routes
2) No mail deliveries after 6 PM
3) Eliminate V-Time
4) Everyone is on the O/T list
5) Allow one bundle mail delivery, longer in the office but much faster in the street
6) All routes must be converted to NDBCU or Curbside no more Park & Loop