Comments on: Opinion of a Postal Employee NALC Steward

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:46:54 +0000

That’s way more clever than I was ecxpeitng. Thanks!

By: smiley

smiley — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:21:17 +0000

so true, usps management is crazy crazy crazy. to much micro management. what is the purpose of the local management team. is it just to open the doors for the hourly employee? local managers and supervisors are not allowed to run the office as they think it should be run. to much money is thrown away due to managerial mistakes. some managers push paperwork down your throat, paperwork that they don’t even understand. FSS is a joke, it is just another tool that management has to rule your day. Carriers are not allowed to management their routes anymore, not with FSS in place. i work in a office that has Fss in place. recently we were told that they are changing our mode of delivery to park and loop. ha ha ha. this will not work, due to the size of the routes. they think it will work because you have fss. yes times are changing, management keeps pushing and the customers keep suffering. true, we don’t have enough carriers to do what we are suppose to do. how much overtime do we need on a daily basis in the office to justify hiring an additional letter carrier.

By: John

John — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:02:16 +0000

George you obviously have no idea how to carry, that stupid concept is what is known as “Running”. Management says ‘get it done’, and they hire some casual temporary employee who runs the hell out of the route, unsafely, and either gets injured, injures someone else or just delivers the mail very poorly (i.e. meet your neighbor day). It is not a cakewalk if done properly it is a tough job to do well.

By: Lois Lane

Lois Lane — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:18:29 +0000

Wow!!! I don’t think any of the above people get it. Change is coming (already happening) within the USPS and it doesn’t matter if you like it or not. Everyone has an opinion and the law says that you are entitled to it. In my opinion it’s high time the Postal Service took a look at how it has been running for the last 100 years and stop splurging on employees who just want to get paid whether or not they do the job that they were hired to do or not. For years a lot of the craft employees and management took their jobs (note: I said a lot, not all) for granted. Not to mention most of the work could be done by a child, who wouldn’t even cry as much. Face it cry babies you now have to work in order to get paid. Eight hours of work for eight hours of pay. You are currently getting paid so much more then the private sector could imagine and now your shocked and appalled by the fact that you are now being forced to actually earn what you make. Face it………long gone are the days when if you were a carrier you could rush out of the building carry your route and then you had the rest of the day to do what you please as long as you didn’t stay out too long.

By: knees hurt

knees hurt — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:37:03 +0000

Really GEORGE…HORHEY …Wait till inspectors catch you doing wrong!!! I could do my route in 5 hour (street) if I broke all the rules and threw any lettter to anybody anywhere like our speedy Te”S do. I come off of a day off to a complete mess if my t-6 is off also….so don’t even go there. When you get hurt, lets see how much your stupidvisor loves you then???? You are nothing but a body that moves mail to them! You forgot to add that half of $50,000 goes to pay your taxes! I guess taht leaves me with $25,000 to live on in this world? I Speak to all: I should of kissed more butt along my long way…..instead of pissed em*

By: pmb

pmb — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:57:39 +0000

Spot on.. I appreciated the truthfulness of the PM’s comments. My PM knows DIOS is BS but he’s protecting his job. Our main supervisor deals with two 204B’s (one we just received who was accused of racism in two different stations and is being moved around) and just shakes his head because there’s not a damn thing he can do about the two of them. The one bitch “welcomes” us back to the office after our routes. “Welcome back, have you removed all rubber bands and mail from your trucks” “Yes” “Is your back door open” “Yes” “Here’s your card, swipe into ‘Office’”. Yeah whatever ok I know my job. All this while she sits in her chair with an opened book she’s busy reading. The other one is so fat and stupid she hides on the dock to eat because she was told not to do edit books with food/coffee in her hand. So… I firmly believe that PMG Potter is creating an environment for failure. Either that or he and his directors are the stupidest individuals to ever be entrusted with the viability of USPS. He’s using the same procedures that “white” collar corps.
do when they are preparing an organization for selling. He’s lining HQ with talking heads who say unions, and government have no place at USPS anymore. He then makes it impossible for USPS to make money. He sets himself up perfectly: bring in privitization, get investors, cut a deal, make tens of million when he “gracefully” steps down after the ashes have fallen. He turns USPS into a turn key operation – the new owners walk in – execs in place – nasty unions and government oversight gone – we’ve found the lost money!!! He takes his fat ass back to wherever he comes from… I’ve also told my union reps that I would like to see representation at Directors’ meetings. What do they actually do, or know, about craft people. They sit and read computer generated reports …. Open the pod, Hal. Hal: can’t do it. Fortunately, this is coming up at the next convention.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:06:17 +0000

To anyone who claims that privatization is the solution to problems within government, ask yourself “would I really want to live in Haiti right now?”
The reason Chile was able to begin recovery from an 8.8 earthquake & Haiti is a disaster after a 6.6 is because Chile has a strong socialized federal government & Haiti auctioned all of its federal responsibilities off to the lowest bidder.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:40:34 +0000

George?????What PO do you work in???? We have carriers that come in every day on time and bust their humps. Management still nickels and dimes us for everything they can. Carriers are bullied and demeaned in the PO on a daily basis. That’s WITH a union filing grievances for infractions. You think it will get better if there was no union to keep management in check? George, I’m worried about you. You need to see your doctor and get your meds checked. It’s painfully obvious that your overmedicating.

By: Postal13

Postal13 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:07 +0000

You guys don’t get it George must be management!!!!

By: rusty

rusty — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:26:03 +0000

Hats off to the steward from a Branch President. George sign off !!