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USPS Mail Delay
Sep 27, 2017 11:04:26 #
artlover
Loc: NM
Complaints are mounting about delays. I retired 25 years ago. This is a different group today. I worked 24yrs & 4 months. I got 4 yrs credit for my US Navy.
85% of all mgrs. were former clerks who never carried a day in their carriers.
All mgt people like post masters were interviewed by 3 other pm they did not know.
I was a part timer w/o benefits until I made full time in 1yr & 2 weeks. 1968 Christmas week I worked 67 & 1/2 hrs & got OT.
When I moved here in NM, the PM at our town kept his door closed 7 yrs. No one knew who he was.
They got USPS mgt & state electors involved & the PM was transferred. Since then we have had 4 different PM's.
We have been here for 12+yrs and have had mail sent to El Paso, TX, & rules have changed. They have worked with FedEx & UPS.
85% of all mgrs. were former clerks who never carried a day in their carriers.
All mgt people like post masters were interviewed by 3 other pm they did not know.
I was a part timer w/o benefits until I made full time in 1yr & 2 weeks. 1968 Christmas week I worked 67 & 1/2 hrs & got OT.
When I moved here in NM, the PM at our town kept his door closed 7 yrs. No one knew who he was.
They got USPS mgt & state electors involved & the PM was transferred. Since then we have had 4 different PM's.
We have been here for 12+yrs and have had mail sent to El Paso, TX, & rules have changed. They have worked with FedEx & UPS.
Sep 27, 2017 12:22:39 #
Our mail is delivered anytime from 1100 to 1900. Have never figured out why. I guess I don't really care, so long as it gets delivered. FedEx is no big deal either. We had a phone call from the delivery person one night saying if we wanted our package to meet him in the parking lot of the local store a couple of miles away. Guess he did that to everyone in our area. We complained, don't know if the young man got to keep his job or not.
Sep 27, 2017 17:17:22 #
Who knows what house our mail might get delivered to?
In the late 60's I worked one summer as a temporary custodian at a post office after they lost their permanent janitor. It was quite an interesting, diversified group of people, and the postmaster was an old union guy who had his peoples' back while still expecting high job performance. One day a rather withdrawn female carrier got in an accident at an intersection. The guy she collided with said something to her that apparently questioned her womanhood. She sprayed him. She was so upset that we didn't see her for a few days......but the postmaster stood up for her.
In the late 60's I worked one summer as a temporary custodian at a post office after they lost their permanent janitor. It was quite an interesting, diversified group of people, and the postmaster was an old union guy who had his peoples' back while still expecting high job performance. One day a rather withdrawn female carrier got in an accident at an intersection. The guy she collided with said something to her that apparently questioned her womanhood. She sprayed him. She was so upset that we didn't see her for a few days......but the postmaster stood up for her.
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Sep 27, 2017 17:53:28 #
artlover
Loc: NM
There is supposed to be a 2 hour window for delivery except when another carrier works OT!
Normal delivery is 1PM at an apt building. They can be there at 12PM or 2PM. Routes used to be 3 & 1/2 hrs in office & 4&1/2 hrs on street. All that changed about 15 yrs ago. They put those boxes on streets & you get no personal delivery. Job cuts, routes longer, etc.
First class mail s sorted but bulk is in order of delivery & cannot be sorted by carrier.
I worked in 2 different areas. I call one, the outhouse & the other, the penthouse. Full timers bid on open routes, & senior bid got route.
Of course since cell phone started, volume went down, but packages delivery is up.
Normal delivery is 1PM at an apt building. They can be there at 12PM or 2PM. Routes used to be 3 & 1/2 hrs in office & 4&1/2 hrs on street. All that changed about 15 yrs ago. They put those boxes on streets & you get no personal delivery. Job cuts, routes longer, etc.
First class mail s sorted but bulk is in order of delivery & cannot be sorted by carrier.
I worked in 2 different areas. I call one, the outhouse & the other, the penthouse. Full timers bid on open routes, & senior bid got route.
Of course since cell phone started, volume went down, but packages delivery is up.
Sep 27, 2017 17:58:02 #
artlover wrote:
There is supposed to be a 2 hour window for delive... (show quote)
artlover.....I've always heard about this bidding on routes. How does that work?
Sep 28, 2017 07:49:40 #
artlover wrote:
Complaints are mounting about delays. I retired 25... (show quote)
Either you're unlucky, or I'm lucky. We have good, fast, efficient mail service. Packages get delivered right to our door. We no longer have to drive to the PO to get them.
Sep 28, 2017 10:32:31 #
artlover
Loc: NM
SteveR wrote:
artlover.....I've always heard about this bidding on routes. How does that work?
You had to be full time carrier and they had a route up for bid. All forms were in secret. No one knew who bid until deadline was over.
You would then move to that route in your office or switch to the new office in that city.
Where I worked was an area of 8 PO's. I bid for an area where no one under 20 yrs ever got a route. Mail volume was heavy.
Many union workers wanted to work in lower areas. I had 7+ yrs and got a great route that I could handle the volume.
Took me about 3 months to remember all names & addresses. I cased by name, not address. BTW: You had to be right handed to case
the letter mail. Many carriers had bag over right shoulder. Proper way was the left shoulder.
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Sep 28, 2017 15:28:12 #
I hear ya! I started in 1967 and then went on military leave 1968 (after making regular). Returned in 1972 and got my first route within a month. Retired in 2002 and it (the Post Office) has only gotten worse. Can't blame it on the carriers but management sucks!!!
Sep 28, 2017 15:35:13 #
artlover
Loc: NM
mrzip90230 wrote:
I hear ya! I started in 1967 and then went on military leave 1968 (after making regular). Returned in 1972 and got my first route within a month. Retired in 2002 and it (the Post Office) has only gotten worse. Can't blame it on the carriers but management sucks!!!
Yeah, I worked in San Marino, CA. A branch of Pasadena. SM mail delivery was transferred to So Pas. Front desk was open about 10 y ago. Don't know about these days. I doubt that it is.
Sep 28, 2017 17:54:09 #
artlover
Loc: NM
artlover wrote:
Yeah, I worked in San Marino, CA. A branch of Pasadena. SM mail delivery was transferred to So Pas. Front desk was open about 10 y ago. Don't know about these days. I doubt that it is.
East Pasadena, not So Pas. Senior moment.
Sep 29, 2017 00:04:25 #
texasdan78070
Loc: Texas Hill Country
I had a PO box for lots of years. I finally decided that when our little village built a new post office (so the highway could be finished and old one torn down) it was time for me to bow out. I live in an RV park and the owners like me since I'm the oldest resident. Not in age, but in time. I asked if they would mind if I got my mail here and they said sure. Now I don't have to drive 2 miles to get my mail...I just walk to the office. Sweet. They also refunded $46!
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