Wednesday, August 20, 2008

How are you treated by Management ?

Use this forum to tell us your Post Office, "Tales of Horror".
What is the worst treatment or lack of respect you've experienced, or others have been subjected at your station ?
Posted by Dan at 10:18 AM 0 comments

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Open Forum

Feel free to express yourself on any Postal issue you want.
Lets get a dialog started
Posted by Dan at 1:45 PM 0 comments

Late Delivery

Do you have the needed number of employees at your station to get the mail delivered in a reasonable time frame ?
Or are those who don't want it , forced on a regular basis to work overtime. Does your station have on a regular basis so many routes down, that a few sick calls causes a panic?
Just last week the mail was delivered on my street at 9.30 p.m, don't know if this was just a one time event, or if its a common situation through out the Postal Service.
I do know that most people assumed that they just didn't get any mail that day, so the mail sat in the boxes overnight. With mail thefts and I.D. fraud on the rise this is not the level of security that customers want or deserve!
How about your station, are you understaffed and overworked ? Feel free to express your feelings on this or any other Postal issues. You can post anonmously if you wish.
Posted by Dan at 1:45 PM 2 comments

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Good or Bad

Whats the work environment at your station ? Is it good bad or indifferent?
Are you treated like a valued employee , like a trusted member of the team, or something less?
What bugs you the most, and what do you think could and should be done to make your daily worklife better.
Whats the relationship like between the employees and management where you work ?
Do you feel like your not being allowed to do your job in a manner that provides better service to our customers ?
Feel free to express yourself here. If everythings great, say so. If you feel like its not and you want to let off a little steam, go for it !
Posted by Dan at 1:33 PM 4 comments
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Welcome to my Blog

I retired from the Postal Service as a letter carrier in 2001,with over 36 years of service.
During those years the Postal Service had gone through many changes, some good, some bad, some completely idiotic.
I've worked with people from the crafts and from management that over the years have become what I consider dear friends, some almost like family. I've worked with others that I'd just as soon forget.
If you've worked for the Postal Service for any length of time your well aware that Postal employee morale has been like a child's see saw, up and down.
After the "strike" of 1970 , we went from being the old "Post Office Department", and became the "Postal Service". We no longer had to rely on Congress for pay raises and saw improvements in job benefits and work rules. Our unions now dealt directly with the Postmaster General and management, through the collective bargaining process.
Our salaries began to go up, the time needed to advance to top pay decreased, and there were many improvements in day to day working conditions. Morale was probably as high as it had ever been.
When I started with the old Post Office Department, one of the first things I was told by both managers and union officers, was, "give eight hours work for eight hours pay". Sounds like a pretty simple concept, but the fly in the ointment was that labor and management never could quite agree on how much work was eight hours worth. But thats only natural, and I'm sure with few exceptions its the same in just about any workplace.
Now we are well into the "Electronic Age", we rely on barcodes and machines to sort most of the mail. We have barcode scanners and "DPS", and I'm sure many other new systems are on the drawing board, some good, others not.
I'm reminded of the old song, "John Henry was a Steel Driving Man". In it, He died trying to prove he could drive railroad spikes as fast as the new Steam Piledrivers.
Automation is here, and thats just the way it is, no turning back, the good old days are gone forever.
Automation has brought changes to the workplace, that have not always been positive. In my opinion management has shown too little concern on how automation has affected the daily work life or morale of their employees.
When I retired, (and from talking with friends who have yet to retire), morale was and has remained low, and trust between employees and management is nearly non-existant, and seems to be getting worse.
I've always felt that its unhealthy for a person to keep their thoughts and concerns bottled up. We all have the need to vent our frustrations and gripes to others who have been there, or are in the same boat right now.
Thats my intention for starting this Blog. Its meant to be a place for Postal Workers to,"let off steam". Speak out, tell us the good, bad and the ugly.
Agree with each other, or me, or not.
If your a craft employee tell us whats bugging you, get it off your chest. Samething goes for managers, speak up, we need to hear both sides of the story.
Positive or not, take a minute to unload, let it out, bitch, rant, rave to those who really understand. Just keep it sane and legal !

About Me

Dan
Garland, Tx, United States
Retired from the USPS after 36 years of Postal and Navy Service. My wife Pat is a school teacher and plans to retire in 2009. We have 3 sons, 2 daughter inlaws and 3 grandchildren with l more on the way.
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