USPS Goes Postal on Obama After Post Office Crack

The post office is run by clowns, who are micromanaging it to death. We deliver mail. It is not rocket science. They have taken a simple job and expanded it to include wasteful add ons that have invented work for lazy, and non-productive employees and managers/supervisors. For at least 2 to 3 hours each morning, station managers/supervisors must listen to a teleconference from upper "management" that involves reviewing scan points from each carriers route the previous day. They question carriers on 3-5 minute differences daily. This is every day! They also are "reviewing" routes and changing deliveries every 3 months! Most of the changes are 10-20 deliveries added to one route from another. Three months later, they change it back. You have carriers crisscrossing each other as they do their deliveries. They put 7 scan points on each route so they know where we should be. That's not unreasonable,but, the added on personnel, conferences, changes every 3 months, and adjusting routes is ludicrous, wasteful, and busy work for high and mighty wannabe executives who have no college, no business school, no work ethic, and no conscience as they dole out threats to those who are carrying their dead weight.

This constant changing of routes every 3 months is not only ignorant and a creation of needless jobs, but, it is also expensive! All the mailers who tailor their mail to certain routes to get a discount now have to change their sorting practices to the new delivery points. This is handled at the carriers end by handing over the "old" deliveries to their "new" route. This takes about a month. Two months later we are changing again, usually back to what we had.

The carrier's day is measured and timed down to the hundredths of a minute, and every minute is accounted for. If you have 10 minutes down, you carry 10 minutes off of another route or you can go home and use your vacation time. I'm all for doing an honest day's work, but, it seems the carrier craft is the only one being accounted for. I don't blame Obama for smirking at the post office. Who took offense? Right! The postal management union! Truth hurts. Send in an independent team and review the practices, mismanagement, education of managers, and waste that abounds. The post office is a joke to work for.

Ben of IN 12:02PM May 27, 2010

The main reason the postal service is loosing revenue is due to inept supervisors and greedy managers. As workers become fewer and fewer, frontline supervisors are pushed by managers to continue to produce the same number of volume. Instead of providing first class service to customers supervisors are pushed to mix bulk mail with first clss letters so the numbers look good. So the volume shows that there is plenty of mail to be delivered. This in turn causes supervisors to keep employees on overtime when they should be able to handle first class mail in an 8 hr day. That also causes customer sevice supevisors to keep mail carriers out on the street longer. Why mix bulk mail with first class? well i will tell you. The more mail a processing plant runs, the better the plant manager looks, the better the managers and supervisors look. For this reason, and to recieve 'PAY FOR PERFORMANCE BONUSES", this is the true reason the postal service is going broke. Supervisors and Managers get sent off for "training", to other cities and get a stipend for meals, lodging, travel, as well as other PERKS. Why cant they recieve training the way employees do? By watching a DVD on a computer or reading a news letter. They are emplyees as well as others and do not deserve BONUSES. Is it reasonable to pay overtime pay to process a piece of bulk mail that they pay 2 pennies or less to be deliverd along with a first class 44 cent piece of mail. Managers and Supervisors should be Educated individuals "The cream of the crop". The USPS allows the "good ole boy", systems to be the merit in which people are promoted within the service. There are Mangers and Supervisors with G.E.D.s running a multi billion dollar business. They promote people much like themselves to keep educated individuals from changing things or asking questions or coming up with new and better ideas of improving the Postal Service. Managers and supervisos on diffrent shifts fight for the amount of mail processed during there shifts so that they are the ones recieving performance pay bonuses. Until this type of behavior ends that is when the USPS will fix itself and not a moment sooner.

BUZZ of CA 4:17PM December 22, 2009

They claim the US Postal Service is going broke but why is it the the men in Melville Long Island getting plenty of overtime by the Union. Some of the employees are working 6-7 days a week and 2 hours at least of overtime 3 days a week. I think this should be investigated by the post master. The employees are claiming they went in overtime and got payed for doing nothing . This is really unfair to the customers that have to pay the increase while the employees are in there and getting payed overtime for readin the newspaper. Why is the union in Melville Ny calling them in to work if there is no mail for them to work overtime. That Post Office has three shifts that means the mail should be covered by the next shift not overtime employees.

dont want to leave my name of NY 2:05PM October 12, 2009

Everyone seems to have an opinion on this whole mess and I can see both sides. I am an employee of the USPS but I am first and foremost, a customer, just like everyone else. I agree that there is a lot wrong with the way the USPS is regulated and run but it is not all bad. Without our set pricing for shipping, UPS and Fed-Ex would charge astronomical prices for their service. Don't get me wrong, Flat-Rate pricing with USPS is a farce. Years ago, we had a good product with a fair price, now we are trying to be "competitive" with the Big Guys and we priced ourselves out of business. The shipping fleet for the USPS is one of, if not the largest, in the country. If we paid taxes on our vehicles, that cost would spill over to shipping costs...again, passing that expense on to all of us. Do I think that this an unfair practice, yes and no. It sure doesn't seem like an even playing field but in the long run, it does level out. There is no doubt that change is needed in the Postal Service but job cuts, within the Employee Crafts, will only lead to diminished service to the customers. Window clerks are losing their jobs, causing longer wait time in lines. Please, try to understand that the clerk behind the counter shares in your frustration. They don't have the extra help we all were used to for so many years so we suffer on both sides of the counter. Some Letter Carriers routes are being abolished and that mail is being added to 4 or 5 other carriers routes in addition to their mail load. Although I understand why, I still don't enjoy waiting until 4pm to get my mail when it used to be here at 11am. I can only imagine how the rest of you must feel. It makes sense to cut delivery down to 5 days a week, but 6 day delivery is one of those pesky rules set up by the Regulatory Commission that we can't overturn like a private company could. As for changes in Mail Processing, I can't even begin to tell you what needs to be done to straighten out that debacle. I need you to know that, in spite of all the adversity, there are thousands of people working hard to make sure you get your 44 cents worth. Many of these people worked just as hard when we were only paying 25 cents or less for the same service...I hope they take the $15,000 and run, while we still have a USPS to retire from.

Katie Quigley of NY 3:28PM August 26, 2009