‘Thank you for everything’
PMG delivers Thanksgiving message to employees
The following message is from PMG Megan Brennan:
As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving Day, I would like to express my gratitude to you for all you do each day on behalf of the Postal Service.
During this season of thanks, we each should take a moment to reflect upon the many things in our lives for which we are grateful — our families, our friends, our co-workers, our health, our jobs, and the many liberties that are unique to our lives here in the United States.
Far too often, we get carried away with day-to-day activities and forget to stop and appreciate all that we enjoy and how fortunate we are.
I am, once again, inspired by your collective efforts on behalf of the Postal Service, and I would especially like to commend you for your dedication to our customers. Each day, you keep the mail moving — prescriptions, birthday cards, bill payments and packages.
In fact, due to your efforts, we expect another banner holiday mailing season, as our customers turn to us to deliver their holiday cards, letters, and packages.
As we have seen in the past, when people, like you, come together for a single purpose, it is energizing and exhilarating. And it can achieve remarkable results.
Thank you for everything you do to make this such a great organization of people who pull together in the face of challenges, support our customers in countless ways, and demonstrate the concepts of “thanks” and “giving” in communities throughout the nation. You should be proud.
I appreciate your dedication and hard work, and I wish you a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving Day!
and here’s another beef,….sometimes an employee wishes/or needs to change locations/ or maybe forced by closures………..they get the PRIVILIGE TO BE DEMOTED…to the bottom of the local seniority list.
31 years and still PTF, working 6 days a week, with varied schedules, while someone(s) 10 years younger and less time on the job enjoys fixed schedules and time off. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT THIS. UNION OR NO UNION…THIS IS NO WAY TO TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEES!!
Short timer…well said and I know you express the feelings of all craft employees out there, working hard because we believe in our work. Our job satisfaction is from our customers, not our supervisors who never appreciate and only criticize. Dan, it stinks when people with many years of seniority are mandated on the holiday because we don’t have enough help. We’ve done our time with holidays and deserve to be with our families. They cry about losing money [NOT], then pay a fortune in OT.
As Our PMG is filling her pie hole with the turkey and all the goodies, All of us little people, who make things happen are being forced to work.
Whatever. You want to support the customers as you say, Ms. Brennan? Restore the mail standards to their previous levels. I know you were behind reducing them, and advocating closing plants that have severely hurt lots of customers especially in rural areas.
We are a service, as in U.S. Postal SERVICE, not a profit business, although you would like to think otherwise. When the prefunding requirement expires at years’ end in 2016 the USPS will be securely in the black thanks to the enormous parcel business, and we must show our customers we can get their packages to them on a timely basis. Cutting standards and closing plants is not conducive to attracting customers or retaining the ones we have. How long do you think any private business would last by making their operational hours shorter, and making it more difficult for consumers to access their products and services? And what makes you think the USPS couldn’t suffer the same fate? We do have competition, and FedEx and UPS are on the board that helps dictate postal policy. Why the hell we take suggestions from them is beyond any common sense reason I can come up with.
Listen to us craft people – we are the Service, out there every day while you and thousands of management are far removed from the day to day reality we see. Many of us are city carriers by choice, yours anonymously included. We don’t want to be in management sometimes not because we’re not smart enough or capable enough. In my case, I don’t want the pressure, I don’t want to relocate, and I have enough to worry about with a disabled wife. I’m a musician, compose my own music, write very well in the proper forum, not necessarily in a post on a web page, and I know I could handle managerial duties with no problem. Money though is not always worth the extra headache, and I don’t want to boss people around. So try to keep in mind you have some bright honest workers out there who don’t let jerks who dump mail, steal or otherwise make us look band influence us. You have your PMG job because we do ours. Have a nice Thanksgiving yourself.