Has USPS Became a Criminal Enterprise?

by Eric L. Wattree
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October 20, 2010

JoAnn Snow
City Carrier
Los Angeles District

Official Statement in Response to Notice of 14-Day Suspension

In accordance with Article 15 of the USPS/NALC National Agreement, I, JoAnn Snow, here by file this official statement in response to the Notice of 14-Day Suspension issued to me on September 27, 2010 by the United States Postal Service. The document reads in part:

All Postal employees with time-keeping responsibilities are required to maintain time -keeping and pay records in strict compliance with postal regulations. When acting in a management position, employees with time-keeping access are aware that coworkers are to be compensated appropriately for work performed. Our regulations also require that clock rings accurately reflect the pay and work status of our employees. The postal Service has recently become aware that you have made time record entries for coworkers that were improper.

Postal Records reflect you entered numerous clock rings for craft employees Terria Clausell and Barbara Elzie that were improper and may have reflected the employees worked fewer hours than they actually worked. You made the entries for these employees which did not report directly to you.

I’m challenging the above action on the grounds that it is nonprogressive, punitive, untimely, and the facts as presented are ridiculously contrived. In addition, the charges brought against me are a blatant and unconscionable exercise in reprisal within the meaning of 5 USC 2302 (9) (a) of the federal code, which reads as follows:

Any employee who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any personnel action, shall not, with respect to such authority take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, any personnel action against an employee or applicant for employment for the exercise of any appeal, complaint, or grievance right granted by any law, rule, or regulation.

Falsifying Clock Rings

The charges indicate that I entered numerous clock rings for craft employees that didn’t report directly to me. What they didn’t say, however, was that it was the station’s policy that 204Bs not hit the clock. In addition, 204Bs were also instructed not to enter their own time. Therefore, the facts will show that above notice of suspension has been issued for the egregious offense of following instructions. Therefore, the matter that actually needs to be investigated is why 204Bs are not allowed to hit the clock in the first place. Every 204B in the district clearly understands the reason why – because any time worked over 10 hours constitutes penalty overtime which requires the agency to pay the employee double time, and 204Bs routinely work between 12 and 16 hours a day, time that the district demands, but refuses to pay for.

In addition, the charges seem to indicate that when I entered a 204Bs time, it was my intent to deprive them of compensation that they were entitle to as a result of gainful employment. But the fact is, as the evening supervisor, I didn’t get in until after 12 p.m. So I had no personal knowledge of how many hours the morning supervisors worked. I simply had to rely on the information that they provided me, so if they worked 14 hours and told me that they only worked 10, I entered 10 hours. Thus, if they were cheated out of hours, they cheated themselves as a result of the intimidation leveraged against employees to adhere to the district’s illegal policy regarding time – and that is routinely the case.

Clear evidence of my contention is indicated in a memo sent out by Area Manager Joe Digiacomo to the supervisors in his area. It states the following:

Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:28 AM

Effective Tuesday, Feb 2, 2010 all delivery supervisors will be required to stay until all their carriers are back. Unless specifically documented and requested, no extra time will be given without my personal approval. No exceptions!

Any questions, call me.
Thanks
Joe Digiacomo SOM-2

Delivery supervisors are generally in the office by 6 a.m., and carriers are often on the street until after 8 p.m. So the above memo is instructing delivery supervisors that they must work that overtime without pay. Therefore, the above memo is grossly inconsistent with management’s contention that “When acting in a management position, employees with time-keeping access are aware that coworkers are to be compensated appropriately for work performed.” This clearly shows that while the postal service is preaching integrity out of one side of its mouth, it’s threatening its employees not to hit the clock out of the other. So after getting such a memo, if a 204B worked 16 hours, what are the chances that they’re going to tell me that? Yet, after gross intimidation of its employees not to report the time they actually worked, the postal service now want to hold me responsible for their under-reporting their time. Thus, the action taken here against me represents the height of hypocrisy.

The Postal Service’s History of Time Fraud

The theft of employee time that’s going on here in the Los Angeles district is not an aberration, however. The postal service has clearly adopted time fraud as a national business strategy. One law suit against the postal service alleged that time fraud against its employees was so rampant and widespread that it constitutes a criminal enterprise. The attorney in the case actually tried to charge the postal service with violation of the RICO Act (The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), the law passed by congress to go after the Mafia. And the postal service didn’t deny the charge. Instead, it petitioned the court to thrown the allegation based on the fact that a government agency can’t be charged with engaging in a criminal enterprise:

USPS has petitioned the District Court to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses postal officials of intentionally deleting parts of employees’ Time Records to Avoid Paying Overtime. The suit alleges USPS violated the RICO, Privacy and FLSA Acts. However, USPS argues, ” The Postal Service is not Subject to RICO Liability As Part of the Federal Government; and “Postal Service Officials Cannot Be Held Criminally Liable for Acts Committed in Their Official Capacity.” Donahue vs FBI (pdf) . The petition further states “the Supreme Court observed ( in USPS vs Flamingo Industries (pdf) ) that while the Postal Reorganization Act of 1971 may have waived the Postal Service’s immunity from suit, it…did not strip it of its governmental status.”

In New Hampshire, Congressman Paul Hodes (D-N.H.) called on the United States Postal Service to present a plan to fully reimburse postal workers for the wages they have lost as a result of managers manipulating their timecards.” The congressman went on to say:

“It has been weeks and the hard-working employees at these post offices are still waiting for answers,” said Congressman Hodes. “The USPS should immediately present a plan to ensure that workers are immediately reimbursed for their lost wages, and that appropriate disciplinary action is taken. Those individuals responsible for cheating New Hampshire families out of hard earned wages must be held accountable . . . In May of this year, I wrote to USPS Inspector General David Williams requesting that his office investigate claims that the United States Postal Service had altered letter carriers’ timesheets on an electronic time system for the last six years. “

On December 2, 2009, Arbitrator Sherrie Rose Talmadge said in her decision against the postal service for time fraud that “Management’s violations were so egregious over a period of many years that punitive damages were awarded to deter the service from further clock ring violations.”

And finally, just this past week Barbara Stickler, president of Branch 1100 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, picketed the Long Beach postmaster for harassment, intimidation, and time fraud:

While Management everywhere is pushing Letter Carriers to do their routes and part of another route in an impossible time frame, Long Beach management has taken it to new heights. Long Beach management is consistently violating the parties collective bargaining agreement with their abusive remarks and creative discipline. Management is on a rampage destroying its very own employees. Letter Carriers are brought into the office and threatened with discipline if they do not make the delivery times arbitrarily created based on projected times and inappropriate deductions, and have been disciplined for not making these illegitimate standards. Additionally, the union is investigating several cases of management falsifying clock rings for the entire office.

Background on Previous Complaint and Reprisal

This is an accurate portrayal of what took place after I had my time stolen, as related in the Los Angeles Sentinel:

I recently found out that a friend of mine was the victim of repeated instances of forced labor and time fraud committed by her manager in the U.S. Postal Service. When I first became aware of it I was shocked, but not alarmed. I thought I could simply contact the OIG’s office and have it, and the manager involved, taken care of. I was certain that the OIG would be anxious to investigate the matter and get the offending culprit out of their midst. But to my amazement it not only took two reports, but over a month before I was even contacted on the matter.

Then when I finally was contacted and explained to the OIG inspector, Special Agent Reid Robbins, that a postal manager, Marcie Luna, was forcing an employee to work between four and six hours a day without pay, and was committing fraud by falsifying a government document and changing the employee’s official clock rings to reflect a three (3) hour lunch that the employee wasn’t permitted to take, I was essentially met with a yawn.

“And who are you? How do you know this employee?” Then after we finally got past what felt like an interrogation to determine whether or not I had a right to NOT mind my own business, Agent Robbins went on to explain that the OIG’s office generally doesn’t investigate time issues – which was a blatant lie (they just don’t investigate it when the government is doing the stealing).

Then after giving the matter further thought, I began to ask myself, “What kind of crime fighting organization doesn’t fight crime?” It is my understanding that the Postal Inspection Service investigate external crimes against the postal service, and the Office of Inspector General investigate internal crimes within the postal service. So if the OIG doesn’t investigate the intimidation and coercion necessary to force an employee to work six hours a day for free, or the falsification of documents necessary to steal an employee’s wages, the OIG must not consider employee abuse a crime.

So I attempted to contact Agent Robbins at the number he provided, but he failed to return my calls, even after six attempts. So I decided to leave a message on his voice mail asking him the following questions: 1) Whose office would handle the matter if the situation was reversed, and the employee worked only eight hours and falsified her time to be paid for twelve? 2). Whose office would handle the falsification of government documents? And finally, is he going to investigate the matter, and will anyone be held accountable for the commission of this crime?

I have yet to receive a response.

But it doesn’t stop there. The next day the employee involved called to advise me that Agent Robbins had contacted her. She went on to say that he seemed to be more interested in how she knew me than he was the crime that had been committed against her. She also said his tone was aggressive and intimidating, and he told her that when she accepted the job of acting supervisor, working overtime without pay came with the job – another blatant lie.

The National Association of Postal Supervisors advised me that a certified supervisor can be required to work a maximum of 30 minutes without pay (in emergencies), 204Bs (acting supervisors) who are covered under various craft employee contracts must be paid for every minute they work. We know this information to be accurate because if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t have been necessary for the manager to falsify government documents to achieve her objective, to rob the employee.

But even worse than giving the employee inaccurate information, and failing to investigate the complaint, Agent Robbins also revealed both the complaint, and the nature of the complaint to postal management, and that’s supposed to be confidential information.

As a direct result, this highly productive employee who has held the same position for over twenty-one years – longer in the same position than any other supervisor, manager, or postmaster in the Los Angeles district – has been demoted by a manager who didn’t even entered the postal service until six years after the employee was a productive supervisor. And even worse, while the manager, Ms. Marcie Luna, who had recently been demoted from area manager herself, was informing the employee of her demotion, she allegedly commented to the employee, “I just want you to see how it feels when the postal service doesn’t appreciate all that you’ve done for them.”

What!!? Is this manager actually saying that she wants the employee to suffer because she feels that she’s suffered an injustice? How was the employee responsible for the manager’s demotion?

In the interest of full disclosure, I became personally (but objectively) involved in this matter because I know it to be particularly egregious based on my personal knowledge of the employee involved. It also speaks directly to an issue that I’ve been addressing in many columns and is of particular interest to me – the negative impact of America’s new business model on the middle class. So while admittedly, I know the subject of this piece personally, the facts in this case alone clearly demonstrate the business community’s full-throated assault on the America middle class.

The character of the manager and agencies mandated to protect the rights of the employee is clearly revealed through the facts in this case.

The federal law is clear. 18 U.S.C. § 1001 reads as follows:

“Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully – (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or (3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.”

If that is indeed the law of the land, then why did the postal service and the Office of Inspector General allow Station Manager Marci Luna to falsify Ms. Joann Snow’s clock rings and insert three hour lunch breaks that she didn’t take? Then, when it was reported to the OIG, instead of the appropriate action being taken against Ms. Luna, Special Agent Reid Robbins of the OIG interrogated Ms. Snow. He treated her like SHE was the criminal for allowing it to be reported (Who is the guy who reported this? How do you know him? Didn’t you know that working without pay goes with the job?).

They placed so much work on this employee that by the time she was finally ready to close the station, she didn’t have to because the morning tour was showing up for work. And instead of going home, she checked into a motel across the street from the post office.

Then, while still at the motel, she received a conference call from Station Manager Marci Luna and Area Manager Tyrone Williams wanting to know why she hit the clock to be paid. When she told them that they had placed too many additional responsibilities on her, Area Manager Tyrone Williams is alleged to have told her that she sounds like a carrier and she simply wasn’t using her time wisely – this, to an employee that’s been doing the same job for twenty-one years with nothing but praise for her efforts.

The following is a letter from my former manager:

I was the Manager of Customer Service at Bicentennial Station in Los Angeles from 1997 until I retired in 2001. I was Ms Snow’s manager during this time. Prior to coming to Bicentennial Station, the two previous managers, Lloyd Curtis and James Barnett had apprised me of Ms Snow’s supervisory skills and total dedication to duty and company. Upon coming to the unit I was not disappointed and found all they had told me concerning Ms Snow was true.

Ms. Snow was one of my closing and weekend supervisors. She had an exceptional knowledge of the overall operation and excelled at running a difficult unit and she required little to no supervision. She could be counted on to work beyond what was normally considered an average work day without complaint. She always finished her assignments no matter how long her day was extended and this included weekends. She has excellent interpersonal skills which you need supervising the diverse workforce at Bicentennial Station. Ms Snow exceeded my expectations relative to handling my business customers and resolving complaints. In addition to all of this, Ms. Snow would routinely call the office on her scheduled off day to see how things were going and offer her assistance if needed.

Joann Snow proved to be an invaluable asset and even now in retirement, I often think of her and thank her when I talk to her for helping make my tour at Bicentennial successful.

Sincerely,

Eugene Jeffries

I was demoted immediately upon speaking to the Office of Inspector General regarding having my time stolen. Yet, Area Manager Tyrone Williams indicated in his statement that I filed a grievance because I was demoted, or in his words, “because she was informed that her higher level detail would be ended because the four supervisor vacancies were filled at this office.”

His reason for my demotion might have rang true if it were not for the fact that Barbara Elzie, the other 204B in the station remained in place, and is still a 204B at this writing. In addition, while I was issued a Notice of 14-Suspension on September 27, 2010 for entering Ms. Elzie’s time, at this writing, a month later, she hasn’t been issued any corrective action for entering my time.

Punitive, Nonprogressive, and Untimely Action

About three months after I file my grievance for time fraud I was contacted by Labor Relations Manager Steve Marney. I assumed the investigation interview was to get clarification of my complaint, but it turned out that he wasn’t investigating the time being stolen from me – he accused me of doing the same thing to Barbara Elzie and Terria Clausell that I was complaining about, but I wasn’t having that. I told him that I’d been a supervisor for 21 years, and in all of those years I had never stolen a penny from any employee. I also told him that if he could show where I had stolen from an employee, he wouldn’t have to bring corrective action against me, I’d leave the postal service on my own accord, so his attempt at intimidation didn’t work.

Then he offered to pay me several thousand dollars in back pay because, he said, “It was the right thing to do.” But there was a quid pro quo – I had to drop my demand that Manager Marci Luna and Area Manager Tyrone Williams be fired for conspiring to steal my time. But I refused to accept that remedy, because this is not just about me. I represent thousands of postal workers across this country. While I’m not a crusader by nature, now that I’ve been placed in this position I’m not going to turn my back on that responsibility. Somebody has to stand up and say enough is enough, so I guess I’ve been chosen by fate to be that person.

The resolution that Mr. Marney was suggesting is how the postal service has been getting away with this corruption for so long. Whenever any employee refuses to succumb to intimidation, they offer them money to sweep the matter under the rug. Giving me eight or nine thousand dollars wouldn’t be anything but a business expense to the postal service, because the agency is stealing millions of dollars a day from its employees. So I made it clear that I wasn’t going to go for that. The only way that we’re going to stop managers and supervisors from stealing the hard earned wages of employees is to set a precedent that makes it clear to all management personnel that if they engage in time fraud and falsifying government documents they’re going to lose their jobs, go to jail, or both, just as the law prescribes.

So that’s why I’ve received this untimely and punitive action – it’s yet another attempt at intimidation. I had my investigative interview on June 17th, yet I didn’t get a notice of suspension until September 27th. That’s untimely. In addition, I’ve never had any previous corrective action, so it’s also nonprogressive. And finally, everything I’ve said in this statement clearly demonstrates that this action is punitive.

In closing, I’d like to predict in advance that the postal service is going to leave no stone unturned in their attempt to avoid providing me the TACS documents that I requested in discovery, because they’re under no illusion that those documents will prove beyond a doubt that they’re robbing their employees blind.

JoAnn Snow
Regular Carrier
Los Angeles district

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17 Responses to "Has USPS Became a Criminal Enterprise?"

  1. UPDATE: May 4, 2016
    The USPS are still falsifying documents. At the present, I’m fighting my own battle and has included my congressman to address the issues at hand. From the comments here, the picture looks gloomy. But still I’m encouraged to not give up. I will see this through!

  2. My time has been incorrect for years. Can I contact TACS directly in Los Angeles to request those documents? It is hard to find them. The OIG, PRC, and Union have done nothing when I reported this.

  3. HR USPS manager altered my modified job assignment restrictions in 2010. She then gave it to a postal agent who then conducted a year long investigation. I was on workers comp from an injury in 2000. I went back to work with no limitations on my job assignment. In 2012 I was indicted for workers comp fraud. In 10/2012 I refused to plead guilty and I went to trial. Not knowing the altered document was fraudulent, the govt used it at trial and its witnesses testified to same. I was convicted. Spent 5 months in prison and 5 months home confinement. I FOUND the fraudulent altered document 2 months after my conviction. My hired attorneys would not help me because it wasn’t new evidence. My life is ruined. My union grievance went to step 4 and they wld not take it to arbitration knowing the manager committed fraud under statute 1001. Does anyone know of an attorney who can help me fight this misconduct against me? I do not want to file complaint with OIG. They helped the prosecution against me. Please help!!!

    Darlene – you need to post your message at the Job Injury forum here:
    http://www.quicktopic.com/16/H/v6PYTS9Wyhhf2

  4. Yeah, I feel the same way!!! It is a shame to take a great job(or used to be) and let management flush it down the toliet like they have. They have continued to break or back, spirit, moral, ect. on a daily basis just so they can have their stide butt numbers to get the PFP. I am sure if the PFP was gone, a lot of the harrassment would be also. One tire and worn down letter carrier here! I wish they would offer us craft folks a $20,000 incentive to leave…I’d take it. It would be worth it to me to just quit and do something else that I love to do. Gloomy feeling always exist at our office. Myself being a 52 year old man has caught myself acutually crying on my way to work…knowing what lurks ahead. Jack crap and BS**it! I think they won’t offer us anything because they know we will line up to take the offer and toss the badges at them. I know that the job market suks, but I’d rather stand with a sign by the side of the road and beg form people(kidding) I am sure they live well with that $300.00 tax free dollars a day they make. No joke I had a talk with one of them at a store about why he choses to stand there all day…guess what he owned a house down the streeet and had his 2009 honda at the store that day. I just happened to speak with with about how he got mail, if he were homeless, come to find out it was just a farse. Got me thinking….put on the yard clothes, spread some dirt around my arms and face, get a cane(which I feel I need at this point and time) make a sign, and get to work. Standing around all day in all kinds os weather without the hassle and taxes…shame huh? That such a thought would ever cross my mind after a 24 year stint as as a USPS letter carrier!!!!!

  5. The Postal Service is now one, big conspiracy theory also, a rackateering, fraudulent, back-stabbing, dog-eats-dog business scam. They’re so crooked, they maKe STRAIGHT-JACKETS BENT!!!! Morality in the postal service…?? HAHH!! what Morality?? Some of us have half=way joked about usps installing instead of candy or gumball machines…installing nothin but valium or xanax tabs for the employees. COuld be used 3-4 times/week at most! 21yr still current employee, I’VE witnessed the deCline and it’s rapid descent. Thanks be to the postal service for giving me what i have 2day, but it’s been roughly 80% hell!!!!

  6. The Postal Service is suffering an ethical crisis. Self aggrandizement has replaced the code of ethics for government employees. The culture of management is not unlike the mafia. They lie together, commit fraud together, and conspire to harm hard working employees who insist that their rights be respected.
    The postal unions and management have used their political power to create a work place that is free from external oversight. And, only the unions and management are responsible for the toxic work environment that prevails. Management only has to meet the union’sprice to have their way.
    Employee’s have many avenues of recourse: EEOC, EEO, EAP, OSHA, the grievance process, MSPB, and NLRB. All of the above have been ineffective in mediating the culture of the postal service. Think about what that says about our federal institutions.

  7. My question is why do postal employees steal so much. Over the years I’ve had several pieces of mail and parcel that was “lost”. All of which had some monetary value. I understand that it is illegal for the Post Office to conduct background checks of their job applicants. Is there any way to get around this and have them conduct some sort of vetting process by which they can get a glimps of their criminal history?

  8. My spouse has complained about this treatment for years. If you don’t like it, there’s a line of people waiting to take your job. If there is defrauding to be done, the Post Office itself would rather do it.

  9. You have to look at this with OPEN eyes and realize this all began in 2006 under the Bush Administration. 9 (nine) Board of Governors were appointed by The Republican President who had won the presidency by CHEATING and influencing illegal vote tampering in his brothers state of Florida. Also in 2006 the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed and signed in just 13 days. AMAZING. Thirteen days from the house floor to the presidents desk for ink.

    The Board of Governors each have terms of 9 years. The chair of the Board of Governors is Louis J Giuliano who has strong ties to the Carlyle Group. (which by the way George Bush Senior sets on the Board) His Six Sigma Principles are what management is following.

    So if a crooked president affords poisoned leadership to drive the machine, does not all of its parts become a part of the corruption? You Bet! If the employee hopes for advancement and PFP.

    Make no doubt about it. These people are determined to break apart the USPS.

  10. USPS Manager Carmen Fede and Supervisor Deborah Fortunato, both of Nutley, NJ, wrongfully ousted me from work as a letter carrier “as a danger to myself and others” for 10 months without any psychiatric or medical documentation. I smashed a side view mirror on a postal vehicle while I avoided a dog that ran in the street in my path. Arbitrator Sherri Rose Talmadge sustained my grievance, returning me to work and making me “whole.” Fede and Fortunato cost the USPS about $50,000.

    A month after I returned to work, Supervisor Kenneth Gilchrease Sr. and Fede presented me with vouchers to sign for me to receive about an additional $2,000, because Fortunato had been skipping me for overtime work. Then Fede and Pauline Florre (now Ruggeri) produced a Letter of Removal for the performance of my duties for the prior month.

    Months later, Fede prejudiced the arbitrator, Joshua Javits, as the conniving manager stated he mentored me with “retraining” my first week back on the job. This stipulation was suggested by my attorney during an EEOC mediation; and this agreement should not have been introduced in any other forum, according to the fine print on the document we signed. Javits ruled in the USPS’s favor to have me fired; however, he stresses the “retraining” in his decision.

    USPS management falsified documents to harass me and to retaliate against me. It took the USPS-OIG a year to respond to my request to conduct an investigation. Its agent, Eric Lawson, investigated me, not my allegations. Its time someone investigates the USPS and the USPS-OIG. The Newark, NJ Attorney General’s Office defended Fortunato and Kenneth Benaquista, a manager who extorted money, during depositions relating to my complaint. Attorney Allen K. Urgent was present while Fortunato and Benaquista committed perjury. My attorney, John Ambrosio, of Bloomfield, NJ, did nothing.

  11. My sympathies to all involved—-and, yeah, they got me too. The old move the lunch hour and shave the night shift premium scam. At another time it was the 204-B, you only get paid for 8 hour schtick. A few years ago, I got severely ill at work, and naturally got the “You can’t have Worker’s Comp” routine and now it’s the we aren’t going to pay your disability payments for a year trick. Still waiting to get to court. My advice based on what I have learned from my own mistakes;
    1. Get a lawyer the next day–it’ll be the best money you’ve spent.
    2. Don’t talk too much at work about any complaint.
    3. Absolutely don’t depend on EEO to fix anything–they work in the same place —–see #1
    4. Don’t expect your coworkers to back you up—-they get afraid of lossing their job and develop memory problems or get an offer they can’t refuse.
    5. Do make copies of everything, and cellphone picture anything else.
    6. The rules and the law (courts) aren’t the same–you’ll lose–SEE #1

    BEST OF LUCK TO YOU ALL

  12. The postal service has clearly adopted criminality as a national business strategy. Indeed. Considering postal management and it’s wet effective policy of strong-arming employees out of paid lunch, changing clock rings, refusing sick leave, fabricating discipline, breaking the contract, hiding alcohol and drug use, covering up rampant abuse of power and disapproving overtime at will.

    Not even counting pivot time – worktime enforced on carriers for 30 minutes to an hour everyday. Pivot time is “UNPAID OVERTIME” calculated daily by the DOIS computer program and fired with uncanny, unrestrained authority by managers and their supervisors on hapless carriers.

    Why not? Who is going to stop them? I half expect a RICO charge to come down on postal management anyday now.

    That reminds me… I know a wannabe gangter… a station manager ( we’ll call him angry lil fella) routinely puts on a Joe Pesci ‘goodfella” act everytime he feels the need to let off steam. It’s commonplace now. Kicking and screaming. Yelling. Threatening. Cursing. Pointing. Waving his arms around all in some rampant temper tantrum that would scare a small helpless child. Zero Tolerance? What’s that, keep your mouth shut when I talk, he says. Laughing.

    Therein lies the problem boys and girls.

  13. This goes much deeper than just the postal service. What’s going on inside the postal service represents an assault on the poor and middle class as a whole. The government institutions that are supposed to be in place to protect our rights are just an illusion. They’re there to give us the impression that our rights are being protected, when actually, they’re there to protect the status quo.

    Take our courts, for example, you have to close to rich to pursue your rights in “our” court system for anything other than a “small claim.” But if you think you’re going to pursue a case against a bank, or an insurance company, or having your rights assaulted by just about any business, good luck – and the Republicans are trying to make it even more dfficult with “court reform.”

    All of our government institutions are now designed to perpetuate a class system. The poor and middle class in this country have bee relegated to the status of fieldhand , and it’s getting worse every day. Now, thanks to the Supreme Court, even foreign corporations are able to control our elections.

  14. Keep fighting!! These criminals need to be jailed! Can you get any help from your federal representative or the attorney general? This is unbelievable!

  15. A number of years ago I contacted the postal inspectors about a matter of fraud. The person at the postal inspectors office acted like I was really bothering them with my call. After that day I wasn’t nearly so naive about the “process”. What a joke. It’s really a big waste of money to have the OIG or postal inspectors. Even after THEY find a problem area like time fraud what is done about it? Not much if anything.

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