All across the nation letter carriers find themselves delivering mail after dark…sometimes LONG after dark. PEN does not agree with this practice – we started a petition way back in 2002 regarding this management practice. Check it out here Eliminate USPS After-Dark Mail Delivery
LANDOVER, Md. (WUSA9) — The investigation into the murder of a mailman on his route is intensifying, and so has bitter criticism of the Postal Service management policies that have carriers routinely out on the street well after dark.
Twenty-six-year-old Tyson Jerome Barnette was shot to death in the 1600 block of Reed Street in Landover, around 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
At my office we had one of those “rogue” acting managers who was trying, for upward mobility. So her motto was to write up every carrier for everything under the sun. So when your vested on a job, your livlihood is at stake. They allow these bully to doe as they please. They continually violate the contract at every turn. The greivance process is a joke? They have been told to cease from the same infraction over and over again, but do they listen no and most of the times nothing happens. We even involved EEO to no avail. So I understand what you are going through. What I can’t understand is how is this doctrine productive? Every thing is on a downward spiral, service (nite Mail) moral, injuries are up, they can’t retain cca’s working them to death, getting mail to the sub stations late, backing up what is supposed to be our bread and butter now (parcels) and they claim it’s working, goe figure? And then they have the nerve after treating you worse than a pack mule, to go back out on the street for them, or better still can you drum up some business for them off your route.
I was an assistant carrier 6 months ago. Which is all they hire anymore in my area. It took them 5 years to fill the last vacant route with another CCA. I had 1 1/2-2 FULL routes a day. And I would have been fired on the spot if I tried to bring back mail. All the regular carriers were gone hours before I made it back in the evening. So there was nobody to help me. I got sick of it.
We here at our office feel sad for our fallen brother. Really hope our top union rep fight hard on this case. Now we must have something written on paper (8190; 1767) to protect our fellow members. Our prayer go out to our our fallen carriers.
I am a letter carrier in maine. It gets dark really early here this time of year. Letter carriers need to remember that safety is their responsibility and if it is not safe bring the damn mail back. Tell y0our manager it is not safe and ask to speak with your union rep if they give you crap. This story made me really sad and is an unnecessary tragedy. If you live in a rough area that might be sketchy after dark get the hell outta there and bring the mail back. if the management thinks it is safe, let them go out and deliver it.
Raymond, your wrong, the postal service is starting carriers at eight AM in the morning, there is know way we can gets our routes done before dark. The management has been told but refuse to start carriers early, also the temp people are out on the streets as late as the reg. carriers.
Easy for a manager to tell carriers to stay out while they are setting in the security code protected office with climate control! This has to stop!!
Just how silly is Raymond’s commit, what because your a temporary worker, is not your life just as valuable as a regular worker? I don’t think that the killer’s asked brother Tyson if he was a regular, or a C.C.A. to put it mildly, they could not have gave a damn what his employment status was. How sick is that? and as for the Union officials, should’nt they have opposed this thing more aggresively when it first started a few years ago. Well they did’nt in fact they agreed with them saying that serving the mail in the dark is not necessarily unsafe, Huh? Have you been in some of these area’s lately? they’re not safe in the day time. Give a crook the cover of darkness,and his battle is half won. so I say the blood is on both their hands, and although someone lost their life, carriers are still out in the dark in Philly tonite. Doe’s anyone really care about the plight of the Letter Carrier? If so I can’t tell…
That bull that the carriers have to stay out until they deliver all their mail this why they have the temp people to help out